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No stamp duty upon contracts and recognizances under this Act.
Proceedings before assistant barrister for breach of contract under a certain amount.
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168. No contract for any public work under the provisions of this Act, or any recognizance to be entered into for the execution of the same by virtue of this Act, shall be liable or subject to any stamp duty imposed by any Act or Acts passed or to be passed, unless specially mentioned therein; and whenever the amount of any such contract, or the sum for which any such recognizance shall be conditioned, or the sum sought to be recovered by virtue of such recognizance or contract, shall not exceed the sum of one hundred pounds, it shall be lawful to proceed against any such contractor or his sureties for such sum, or for damages for the breach of any such contract, by civil bill before the assistant barrister at the quarter sessions for the county where such work shall be situate, or in the county or city of Dublin before the recorder of Dublin; and the said assistant barrister and recorder shall have full power to hold plea thereof, and the same shall and may be proceeded on in like manner in all respects, and the like decree or judgment and execution shall and may be had thereon, and also the like benefit of appeal, and of proceedings, judgment, and execution thereon, as in case of any other sum or demand which may now by law be had or used before such judge.
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