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No barrister or other officer acting under this Act (with certain exceptions) to vote or interfere in the election of members of Parliament for the county or city of Dublin.
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15. And . . . that no barrister or other officer or person nominated or appointed by or under this Act (except the said divisional justices who shall be aldermen, sheriffs peers, or common councilmen), shall, during the time he shall continue in his office or within six months after he shall have quitted the same, be capable of giving his vote for the election of a member to serve in Parliament for the county of Dublin or the city of Dublin respectively, nor shall by word, message, writing, or in any other manner endeavour to persuade any elector to give or dissuade any elector from giving his vote for his choice of any person to be a member to serve in Parliament for the said county and city of Dublin respectively; and every such officer or person as aforesaid offending therein shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds, one moiety thereof to the informer, and the other moiety to be paid to the said receiver of the said public offices to be applied to the uses of the said establishment, to be recovered by any person that shall sue for the same by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information in any of his Majesty’s courts of record at Dublin, in which no essoign, protection, privilege, wager of law, nor more than one imparlance shall be allowed; such action to be brought within the space of one year after such offence so committed: Provided always, that nothing in this Act shall extend or be construed to extend to subject such officer or person as aforesaid to any penalty or penalties for any act or acts done by him at or concerning any of the said elections in discharge of his duty or duties in his respective capacity.
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