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Clerks of the peace to act as clerks to assistant barristers and as registrars, &c., but not as attorneys.
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10. The clerks of the peace for the several counties respectively, or their sufficient deputies, shall be and are hereby required to act as clerks to the said assistant barristers respectively in the execution of the duty imposed on them by this Act, and as registrars respectively of the said court, and shall be obedient to the said assistant barristers respectively in all lawful commands which they shall respectively receive from the said respective assistant barristers relative to the business of the said court, and the duty imposed by this Act on the said assistant barristers and clerks of the peace respectively; and the said several clerks of the peace and their respective deputies shall and they are hereby required to keep books for the entering and registering of all civil bill causes, and shall enter and register the same; and such books shall be records of the respective counties to which they shall belong; and no clerk of the peace, or any deputy or clerk of his, or any person for his use or benefit, shall act as an attorney in any cause which such assistant barristers are by this Act empowered to hear and determine; and if he, they, or any of them shall so act as an attorney in any such cause, by himself or any other for his use or benefit, he shall forfeit the sum of fifty pounds to any person who shall, within one year after such offence committed, sue for the same by action or information in any of her Majesty’s courts of record in Dublin, and shall, moreover, in case of judgment being had against him, be incapable of ever holding such office of clerk of the peace, or deputy clerk of the peace, as the case may be.
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