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Surveyors shall keep an office open, and appoint a clerk, &c.
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43. Each such surveyor shall keep an office open for his regular attendance on business in such place as the grand jury shall appoint, and which they are hereby required and empowered to appoint; and each such surveyor shall employ one fit and competent person to be a clerk in his said office, who shall give regular attendance in the said office, and for whose conduct such surveyor shall be at all times responsible; and such grand jury is hereby authorized and required to present, over and above the salary payable to such surveyor, a sum not exceeding fifty pounds in each year, to defray the expense of such office, and to pay the salary of such clerk, a moiety whereof the said grand jury is authorized and required to present at each assizes for the half year last past, and to pay the same to such surveyor accordingly, subject always to the provisions herein-before contained with respect to the payment of the salary of the said surveyor; and it shall be lawful for every surveyor to appoint so many persons as the grand jury shall, with reference to the extent of the county and of the duties to be performed, think necessary, to be assistants to such surveyor; and each of such assistants shall be paid such salary, not exceeding fifty pounds per annum, as the grand jury shall direct, which shall be presented by the grand jury by half-yearly instalments at each assizes: Provided always, however, that no person shall be appointed such assistant who shall not be certified by the said board to be a fit and competent person to discharge the duties of such office; and every such assistant shall obey the orders of such surveyor, and be removable in the same manner as the surveyor himself is.
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