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Clerk of the Crown or Peace to keep an office in assize town.
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22. Every Clerk or temporary Clerk of the Crown, Clerk or temporary Clerk of the Peace, and Clerk of the Crown and Peace for any county or borough shall keep an office in the town in which the assizes for such county shall be holden, or in the said borough; and such office, unless the Lord Chancellor shall otherwise direct, shall be kept open by such officer, or, during his necessary absence, by a fit and competent clerk, to be employed by him at his own expense, between the hours of eleven and four o’clock in the day every day, except Sunday, Good Friday, Christmas Day, and such other days as the Lord Chancellor may prescribe; and if any such officer shall neglect to keep such office open on such days and during such time as aforesaid, he may be fined by any judge of assize at any assizes for such county, or by the chairman of the county, such sum, not exceeding ten pounds, as such judge or chairman shall think proper for every such neglect: The grand jury of any county or borough may provide and assign for such office any apartment or apartments in any public court house under the control of such grand jury in such town or borough as aforesaid.
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