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Proviso for Justices, &c. under 10 Car. I. st. 2. c. 16. (I.)
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XXII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to prevent or hinder any Justice or Justices of the Peace, Sheriff, Minister, Curate, Churchwarden, or other Officer or Person, from having such Protection against contentious Suits prosecuted, and to be prosecuted against them, for or in respect of the lawful Performance of the Duties of his or their Offices, or in Assistance of the said Officers respectively, in the Execution of this Act, or any of the said recited Acts, as they can or may have by and under an Act made in Ireland in the Tenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the First, intituled An Act for Ease in pleading against troublesome and contentious Suits, prosecuted against Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, Mayors, Constables, and certain other Officers, for the lawful Execution of their Office, or by or under any other Act or Acts now in force in that Part of the United Kingdom called Ireland.
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