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Provision in case of death of officers.
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23. If any Clerk or temporary Clerk of the Crown, or Clerk or temporary Clerk of the Peace, or Registrar of Civil Bills, or Clerk of the Crown and Peace, or deputy of any such Clerk, or any temporary Registrar, shall die or be necessarily absent or become incapacitated from discharging his duties during any assizes, the judges of assize, or one of them, may appoint a fit and proper person to discharge the duties of such officer during such assizes; and if such death absence or incapacity shall occur during the holding of any quarter sessions or Civil Bill Court, the chairman may appoint a fit and proper person to discharge the duties of such officer during the holding of such sessions or court, and any person so appointed shall have for the purpose of discharging such duties all the power and authority, and while he shall hold such appointment shall be subject to all the liabilities which the officer so dying or being absent or becoming incapacitated would have had, or to which he would have been liable if continuing to act. Every person appointed under this section shall be paid such remuneration as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time by order direct, the same to be paid out of the salary or remuneration provided for the officer whose duties shall be performed by the person so appointed.
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