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One clerk may be appointed to several districts, &c.
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6. It shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant at any time hereafter to order and declare that from a certain time therein to be named two or more districts shall be served by one and the same person as clerk; and such order and declaration shall be published in the Dublin Gazette, and shall be notified by the Chief or Under Secretary to the clerk of the peace of the county in which the said districts are situate; and the justices assembled at the then next quarter sessions for the division of the county in which such districts shall be situate, or, if the said districts shall be in more than one division, then at the quarter sessions for such division as the Lord Lieutenant shall appoint, shall proceed to nominate and appoint some one of the persons who have filled the office of petty sessions clerk in one of the said districts immediately before the pronouncing of the said order, or, in case of the unfitness of all such persons, then some other proper and fit person, to be the clerk of such districts; and such appointment shall forthwith be notified by the clerk of the peace to the registrar; and it shall be lawful for such justices to recommend to the Lord Lieutenant the amount of annual salary which in their opinion should be paid to the clerk so appointed for such districts, regard being had to the extent of the duties he will be called upon to perform; and every such recommendation shall be transmitted to the Lord Lieutenant by such clerk of the peace, and the Lord Lieutenant, after due consideration of any recommendation which may be so transmitted to him, shall determine the class in which such clerk shall be included, and shall fix the salary to be paid to such clerk, . . .
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