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Oath of Office may be taken before a Baron, or the Remembrancer, or a Commissioner for taking Affidavits.
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V. And be it further enacted, That each and every Person so appointed Sheriff and Under Sheriff as aforesaid shall before he enter upon the Execution of his Office take the Oath heretofore and now required by Law, which Oath shall be fairly written on Parchment, without being subject to Stamp Duty, and signed by him, and shall and may be sworn before the Barons of His Majesty’s Exchequer, or any of them, or before the said Chief Remembrancer, or any Commissioner for taking Affidavits in said Court, and the same shall be thereupon transmitted to the said Secondary, who is hereby required to file the same among the Records of his Office, for which he shall be entitled to demand and have from such Sheriff or Under Sheriff the Sum of Five Shillings, and no more; and no Sheriff or Under Sheriff shall act as such until such Affidavit shall be lodged with such Secondary, on pain of Forfeiture for any Act so done a Sum of One hundred Pounds to any Person who shall sue for the same.
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