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Mayor, for ever hereafter, to have power to determine causes in all debts under 23s and to exercise all authorities, &c. which the mayor heretofore had in court of confidence.
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XXIII. Whereas the court of conference, held before the mayor of the town, and county of the town of Drogheda, for determining causes in all small debts between party and party, under the value of ten shillings, has been of great use, and will be of still greater advantage to the inhabitants, if the jurisdiction of said court be extended to the determination of causes in all small debts between party and party, under the value of twenty-three shillings; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor of said town, and county of the town of Drogheda, shall for ever hereafter have full power and authority to hear and finally determine causes in all final debts between party and party, under the value of twenty-three shillings; and shall for ever hereafter have and exercise all the powers, authorities, and jurisdictions, which the mayor of said town, and county of the town, hath heretosore had and exercised in the said court of confidence.
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