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Interpretation.
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2. In this Act the term “county” shall extend to and include county of a city, county of a town, county of a town and city, city and county, and borough in which there is a grand jury or a town council exercising the powers of a grand jury as to presentments:
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The term “officer” shall mean and include local inspector, chaplain, medical officer, surgeon of the county infirmary who has given his attendance and professional assistance as medical officer without any other or further fee than his salary as such surgeon, to the prisoners and others in the gaol of such county, governor, and all other officers and servants of the prison.
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Superannuation of officers.
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4. If any officer of any prison has been an officer of such prison for not less than twenty years, and is not less than sixty years of age, or becomes incapable from confirmed sickness, age, or infirmity, or injury received in actual execution of his duty, of executing his office in person, and such sickness, age, or infirmity, or injury is certified by a medical certificate, and there shall be a report of the “Board of Superintendence” testifying to his good conduct during his period of service, and recommending a grant to be made to him, the grand jury of the county in which such prison is situate may, upon the recommendation of the Inspectors General of Prisons, or one of them, at the assizes, or, as regards the county and city of Dublin, at the presenting term next after the date of such report, grant to such officer, having regard to his length of service, an annuity by way of superannuation allowance, not exceeding two thirds of his salary and emoluments, or a gratuity not exceeding the amount of his salary and emoluments for one year, and any such annuity or gratuity shall from time to time, without application to presentment sessions, and in the case of the county and city of Dublin at the presenting term, be presented by the grand jury, and shall be levied in like manner in every respect as the salary of such officer was previously levied; provided that the salary and emoluments of any surgeon of any infirmary to whom any superannuation allowance or gratuity is granted under this Act, shall, for the purpose of ascertaining such superannuation allowance or gratuity, be deemed to be the salary and emoluments paid to such surgeon as surgeon of such county infirmary; provided also, that no superannuation allowance or gratuity under this Act shall be granted to any surgeon of any county infirmary so long as he continues to be the surgeon of such county infirmary.
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Annuities, &c. not assignable, &c.
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5. Any annuity or gratuity granted to any prison officer under this Act shall be payable to or in trust for such officer only, and shall not be assignable or chargeable with his debts or other liabilities.
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