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Duties of collectors.
Collectors may be suspended or dismissed for negligence by finance committee.
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12. Every collector shall commence his collection with as little delay as possible after receipt of his warrant, and shall lodge the amount collected from time to time in the Bank of Ireland to the credit of the finance committee of the county, and shall not at any time retain in his hands more than one hundred pounds, but shall lodge the same with all convenient expedition in the said Bank of Ireland, and shall attend the finance committee from time to time, and make up the accounts of his collection when and as such finance committee shall direct, and furnish them with a copy or vouchers of all receipts and lodgments; and in case of any inattention, neglect, or misconduct on the part of any such collector it shall be lawful for the said finance committee to suspend or dismiss such collector, and to appoint another person to act in his place in completing such collection, whereupon the said collector shall hand over his warrant, with a list of the persons whose grand jury cess may have been paid or may remain unpaid; and if such collector shall refuse or neglect for one week to deliver over such warrant and list as aforesaid, after being required so to do, he shall forfeit the sum of twenty pounds, to be recovered by civil bill, or before any justice of the peace, at the suit of the finance committee; and the person so appointed to act in the place of the collector so suspended or dismissed shall, after having entered into security as aforesaid, have and possess all the rights, powers, and privileges of a collector duly appointed by the grand jury under this Act, until the first day of the then next presenting term, but no longer.
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