Chancery and Common Law Offices (Ireland) Act, 1867

Future clerks in Rolls Court to be practised shorthand writers.

21. When any vacancy shall occur in the office of “clerk in court” in . . . the Rolls Court, it shall be lawful for the . . . Master of the Rolls to appoint a competent writer of shorthand to fill such vacancy ; , . . and every person appointed a “clerk in court” as aforesaid shall, in addition to the duties hitherto performed by the person filling such office, take down and transcribe all such evidence, statements, and matters as the judge in whose court he shall attend shall direct.