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Payment of and presentment for salaries of county officers, &c.
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110. All county treasurers, clerks of the crown, clerks of the peace, secretaries to grand juries, sheriffs, medical officers of prisons, and all other officers and persons mentioned and specified in the schedule marked (S.) to this Act annexed, shall be paid and remunerated for their respective duties, services, and expenses by annual salaries only, payable half-yearly at each assizes by equal moieties, and not exceeding the amount mentioned in the said schedule; and the grand jury at any assizes shall and may present (without previous application to presentment sessions) for each such officer, to be raised off the county at large, the moiety of such annual salary: Provided always, that in case of any negligent or insufficient discharge of duty by any such officer or officers it shall and may be lawful to and for any grand jury, with the express sanction of the court, but not otherwise, to present any sum or sums less in the whole than the moiety of the annual salary by this Act specified to be paid to any such officer or officers, or to withhold and refuse to make any presentment whatever for any such officer or officers; and that such officer shall not be entitled to receive any payment for any service or duty performed at an adjourned assizes.
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