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Commissioners (not from office) neglecting meeting 12 months, committee 1, unless sickness, his place vacant,
another elected as by said act,
on notice to lord mayor by common council clerk,
or to the minister or curate by clerk to the division.
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V. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any present or future commissioner (not being a commissioner from office) shall neglect to attend the meetings, which shall be held in pursuance of said act, for the space of twelve months, of it any present or future committee-man Shall neglect to attend the meetings, which shall be held in pursuance of said act, for the space of one month, except he is prevented by sickness or other bodily inability, that his place shall become void and vacant, as if he was naturally dead, and such commissioner or committee-man shall be no longer authorized or empowered to act in the said office; and it shall and may be lawful for the remaining commissioners, and they are hereby required, in the manner prescribed in the said act to elect a fit person to be a commissioner in the room and place of such former commissioner; and if such vacancy shall happen by the neglect and non-attendance as aforesaid of any of the commissioners elected by the common council of the city of Dublin, then and in such case the clerk to the said commissioners shall give notice thereof to the lord mayor, who shall proceed, as the said act directs, to elect some other person in the room and place of such former commissioner, which newly elected commissioner shall continue a commissioner till the expiration of the three years, for which the aldermen and common council-men then commissioners shall have been elected; and if such vacancy shall happen by the neglect or non-attendance of any committee-man, then and in such case the clerk to the division, wherein such vacancy shall happen, shall give notice thereof to the minister or curate of the parish, in which said person was elected; and such minister or curate shall, in the manner ordered and directed in the said act, convene a meeting of the protestant parishioners, and shall elect some other person to be a committee-man in the room and place of such former committee-man; and such person, who shall be elected to fill any vacancy of commissioner or committee-man, in manner as herein before mentioned, after he shall have performed the requisites in the said act set forth, shall and is hereby declared to have all and every the rights, powers, and authorities of the person, to whom he was so appointed and elected to succeed as a commissioner or committee-man respectively.
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