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Penalty on not taking said oath, 100l.
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IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the sheriff, sub sheriff, or under sheriff, shall refuse or neglect to take the said oath, either at the Lent or Summer assizes as aforesaid, that then, and in such case, he shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds sterling; the said sum to be recovered by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information in any of his Majesty's courts of record in Dublin, by such person as shall first sue for the same, in which no essoign, protection, or wager of law, or more than one imparlance shall be allowed; one moiety thereof for his own use, and the other moiety for the use of the publick infirmary of the county whereof the defendant shall have been sheriff, sub sheriff, or under sheriff. [Rep., Stat. Law Rev. (I.) Act, 1879.]
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