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Surveyor or clerk not to serve on juries, or fill any other county office, &c.
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44. No such surveyor his clerk or assistant shall be eligible or liable to serve or act on any jury, nor to fill any other county office whatsoever in any county, nor take or receive any fee or gratuity whatsoever from any contractor or other person engaged in any public work in any county, nor for any matter or thing in anywise appertaining to the duty of such surveyor, clerk, or assistant, nor be or become in any manner, directly or indirectly, interested in any contract for the performance of any work presented or to be presented by any grand jury, on pain of forfeiting his office, with all arrears of salary then due to him; and every such contract in which such surveyor, clerk, or assistant shall be or become in any manner directly or indirectly interested, shall be absolutely void; and the surveyor, clerk, or assistant so interested shall forfeit fifty pounds, to be recovered, with full costs of suit, by any person who shall sue for the same.
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