Petty Sessions Clerk (Ireland) Act, 1858

Allowance for contingencies, &c.

14 & 15 Vict. c. 93.

10. It shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant to direct that such annual or other allowance as he shall think right shall be made to each petty sessions district for the payment of postage, and for the purchase of books, stationery, court requisites, expenses of court-house, and other matters; it shall also be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant from time to time to make such allowance as he shall consider fit and reasonable to the clerks of the justices in the borough of Cork and the town of Belfast, to enable them to provide such competent assistants as the nature and extent of their duties or the exigencies of the case may require.