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Country treasurers act of the 13 & 14G. 5 c. 18.
Justices of peace for the county of the city of Cork empowered to elect a treasurer,
election heretofore made by justices of said city deemed valid.
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LI. And whereas doubts may arise whether the treasurer of the county of said city of Cork should not be elected in manner prescribed in and by an act of Parliament passed in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of his present Majesty’s reign entitled, An act for the better regulating the office of country treasurer, and the duty of clerk of the crown in respect to presentments: And whereas from the limited number of justices of the peace of the county of said city, and the several persons who have served the office of mayor, being mostly persons in trade, and from other causes it can scarcely happen that a number of justices qualified as by the said act is directed, can be had to make an election of treasurer of the county of said city : for removing such doubts, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever the treasurership of the county of the said city shall be vacant, either by the death, resignation, removal, or dismission of the present or any future treasurer, the justices of the peace of the county of the said city, or such of them, or the majority of such of them as shall assemble for that purpose in such manner, and at such times as directed by said recited act, shall proceed to elect a fit and proper person to be treasurer of the county of the said city of Cork, and such election shall be good and valid, notwithstanding any want of qualification mentioned in said act in any of the justices who shall attend or vote at such election, and the election heretofore made by the justices of the peace of the said city of the present treasurer thereof is hereby confirmed, and all and every act and acts heretofore done by him as treasurer of said city, is and are hereby confirmed, and that it shall be lawful for the present treasurer of the county of the said city, and every treasurer thereof, to be hereafter elected as aforesaid, to use and execute all the powers and authorities given to and vested in the treasurer of the county of the said city by any law or laws now in force.
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