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Chairman neglecting to call meeting for election of new commissioners, or to supply vacancies, shall cease to be chairman, and forfeit 100l.
Limitation of actions.
Upon such default, commissioners, according to their seniority, required to act, under the like penalty as the chairman.
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18. If such chairman of the commissioners for the execution of this Act for the time being shall neglect or refuse, at such time as has been herein-before appointed for the election of new commissioners, or he being thereunto required by any person included in the registry herein-after directed to be made shall neglect or refuse, upon the occurrence of any vacancy among the commissioners, occasioned by death, disqualification, or any other cause whatsoever, as herein-after is provided, to notify the same, and to convene a meeting for the election of a new commissioner or commissioners, as the case may be, and threat and thereupon to proceed as herein directed, such chairman shall cease to be a chairman or commissioner, and shall forfeit to any person, being a householder in the same city, borough, or town, who shall sue for the same, the sum of one hundred pounds, such sum to be recovered, with full costs of suit, by action or information, in any of his Majesty’s courts of record at Dublin: Provided that no such sum be recovered unless some prosecution, action, or suit for recovery of the same be commenced within six calendar months after such forfeiture shall have been incurred; and upon such default of such chairman the senior commissioner (such seniority to be determined by priority of election) shall convene such meeting, and shall proceed to make and certify such election, and shall convene such meeting upon some day not less than seven days and not more than fourteen days from the expiration of the time limited and appointed for the convening of such meeting by such chairman, and shall notify the same and proceed thereat as the said chairman ought to have done, and the election so made and held shall be to all intents and purposes a good and valid election, as if made by the said chairman in conformity to this Act; and in default of such senior commissioner the commissioner next in seniority shall convene such meeting, and so on, the duty and competency to call such meeting devolving upon each commissioner successively on default of the next senior commissioner; and each individual commissioner shall by his default incur the like disqualification and forfeiture, to be recovered in the like manner, as was incurred by the chairman upon his default.
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