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Publicity to be given to orders in manner directed by commissioners, &c.
Penalty for neglecting to give publicity, &c.
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7. Every clerk of such guardians . . . shall and they are hereby required to preserve and give publicity to such orders in such manner as the commissioners shall direct, and also to allow every rate-payer (or his agent authorized in writing) in every such union to inspect the same at all reasonable times, free of any charge for such inspection, and to furnish copies of the same, being paid for such copies at the rate of three-pence for every folio of seventy-two words, and to allow copies or extracts thereof to be taken, on being paid for so doing at the rate of three halfpence for every folio of seventy-two words; and in case any such clerk to the guardians . . . to whom such orders or copies thereof shall be sent as aforesaid shall neglect to preserve and give publicity to the same in the mode prescribed or directed by the commissioners, or shall refuse such inspection, or to furnish, or allow such copies thereof to be taken as aforesaid, every person so offending shall for every such offence be subject and liable to a penalty not exceeding the sum of ten pounds nor less than forty shillings.
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