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Proceedings by civil bill under 3 & 4 Vict. c. 108., &c. to be bad or taken before recorders of boroughs, shall be, as near as may be, in the forms, &c. provided by this Act.
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159. [Recital of 4 Vict. c. 108. s. 183.] All proceedings by way of civil bill under said recited Act, or under any other Act not hereby repealed, to be had or taken before any recorder of a borough or town in Ireland, other than the recorders of Dublin and Cork, shall be, as nearly as the circumstances of the case will admit, in the forms, and subject to the like provisions as to stamps and fees, and according to such course, and with such right of appeal to a judge of assize or at nisi prius of the county or city in which for such purpose such borough or any part thereof shall be situate, and subject to such other rules and regulations, as by this Act is provided in cases of civil bills determinable before any assistant barrister or chairman, and with the same amount and limits of jurisdiction: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect the manner or times of holding the courts of such recorders for the hearing of such civil bill proceedings, or to abridge any existing power of such respective recorders to appoint the proper officers of such courts for the service or execution of the process of the same; and if any doubt shall arise in the application of this Act, as to what officers of such courts shall correspond to those named in this Act for the service or execution of process, it shall be lawful for such courts to determine the same.
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