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Salaries of treasurers of certain cities and towns.
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8. The county treasurers of the cities and towns in the fifth and sixth classes of the schedule marked (S.) to the said recited Act annexed shall (except in those cases where the grand juries of such cities and towns shall, with the consent of the court, determine on paying such officers by a poundage on their receipts) be paid and remunerated for their respective duties, services, and expences by annual salaries only, payable half-yearly at each assizes by equal moieties, and not exceeding the amount respectively limited in the said schedule as the salary of the clerks of the peace in the same cities and towns in each of the said classes; and the grand juries of such cities and towns at each assizes shall and may present (without previous application to presentment sessions) for each such treasurer, to be raised off the county at large, the moiety of such annual salary: Provided always, that in case of any negligent or insufficient discharge of duty by any such treasurer, it shall and may be lawful to and for the grand jury of any such city or town, with the express sanction of the court, but not otherwise, to present any sum or sums less in the whole than the moiety of the annual salary hereby specified to be paid to such treasurer, or to withhold or refuse to make any presentment whatever for such treasurer.
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