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Divisional justices to retain clerks and constables.
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19. And . . . that the divisional justices under this Act shall in their respective offices retain and employ a sufficient number of clerks, and also a sufficient number of fit and able men, whom they or any of them are hereby respectively authorized and empowered to swear in to act as constables for preserving the peace and preventing robberies and other felonies and apprehending offenders against the peace within the said police district of Dublin metropolis, as well by night as by day; which said constables so appointed and sworn as aforesaid shall have all such powers, authorities, privileges, and advantages as any constable duly appointed now has or hereafter may have by virtue of any law or statute in force in Ireland, and shall obey all such lawful commands as they shall from time to time receive from the said divisional justices under this Act respectively, for the apprehending offenders or otherwise conducting themselves in the execution of their said office or employment by day or night; and such divisional justices or any two of them shall and may at any time dismiss from his said employment every such constable belonging to their respective offices, whom they shall think remiss or negligent in the execution of his duty, or otherwise unfit for the same, and appoint such others in their stead as to them shall seem meet: Provided always, that no greater number than two clerks and three office constables and four peace officers shall at any one and the same time be so retained as aforesaid at any one of the said publick offices, except at the office of the division in which his Majesty’s castle of Dublin shall be situate, and in which the said chief magistrate of police shall be one of the divisional justices as aforesaid; and in the office of the said division no greater number than two clerks and three office constables and twenty-eight peace officers shall at any one time and the same time be so retained: Provided also, that if any person so appointed a constable as aforesaid shall be dismissed from the said employment, all powers and authorities vested in him as a constable under and by virtue of this Act shall immediately cease and determine to all intents and purposes whatsoever. [Rep. 35 & 36 Vict. c. 97. (S.L.R.)]
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