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Fines on Constables and Penalties payable to the Police to form a Fund to be called the “Police Reward Fund.”
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XLIX. And be it enacted, That all Fines imposed on any Chief or other Constable under this Act, and all Penalties or Proportions of Penalties and Damages awarded to any Chief or other Constable or other Person appointed under this Act by any Justice or Justices of the Peace, on any summary Conviction, as the Prosecutor of any Information or otherwise, shall be paid to the Paymaster of each County, County of a City, or County of a Town, in which such Fine shall be imposed or such Conviction shall be had, and shall be by such Paymaster paid to the said Receiver to be appointed under this Act in such Manner as the said Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall from Time to Time direct, so as that the same may form a Fund to be called the “Police Reward Fund,” to be invested in Government Stock by and in the Name of such Receiver for the Time being, and accumulate for the Payment of such Rewards, Gratuities, Bounties, Pensions, or other Allowances as the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland may from Time to Time award or direct to be paid to any Person or Persons appointed under this Act, or to the Widows and Families of any such Person on his Death; and that it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland to direct, if he or they shall think fit, that any Proportion not exceeding Ten Shillings in the Year for every One hundred Pounds of the Salary of every Person appointed under this Act, and so in proportion for any Salary less than One hundred Pounds, shall, in addition to the Deduction herein-before mentioned of Two Pounds per Centum per Annum towards the Formation of the said Superannuation Fund, be deducted yearly from such Salaries, and added to the said Reward Fund, and form Part thereof.
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