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Appointment of clerks.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 108.
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7. As often as any vacancy shall arise in the office of petty sessions clerk serving one district only, the justices of such petty sessions shall nominate and appoint some proper person to fill the said office; and in any borough in which, within the meaning of the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act, 1840, a commission of the peace has been or shall be granted, and in and for which borough petty sessions are and shall be holden, the clerk shall, when and so often as a vacancy shall arise, be nominated and appointed by the justices of such borough; and as often as a vacancy shall arise in the office of petty sessions clerk serving two or more districts, the justices of such districts shall appoint some proper person to fill such office: Provided always, that notice shall be given by the clerk of the peace for the county or division in which such districts, or the greater part thereof, are situate, of the time and place at which the justices of such districts are to meet to consider such matter; and such notice shall be published in some newspaper circulated in such county or division, and shall be served upon each such justice seven days at the least previous to such meeting, either by delivering the same personally to such justice, or by leaving the same at or transmitting it by post to his usual place of abode; and every such appointment, when made, shall be forthwith notified by the clerk to the registrar.
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