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Appointment, &c. of paid officers.
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31. It shall be lawful for the commissioners, as and when they shall see fit, by their order to direct the guardians of any union, or of so many unions as the commissioners may in such order specify and declare to be united for the purpose of appointing and paying officers, to appoint such paid officers, with such qualifications as the commissioners shall think necessary, for superintending, acting, or assisting in the election of guardians, in the collecting of rates to be made for the purposes of this Act, in the administration of the relief and management of the destitute poor, and otherwise carrying the provisions of this Act into execution; and the commissioners may and they are hereby empowered to define, specify, and direct the execution of the respective duties of such officers, and the places or limits within which the same shall be performed, and direct the mode of the appointment and determine the continuance in office or dismissal of such officers, and the amount and nature of the security to be given by such of the said officers as the commissioners shall think ought to give security, and, when the commissioners may see occasion, from time to time to regulate the amount of salaries or allowances payable to such officers respectively, and the time and mode of payment thereof, and the proportions in which such respective unions shall contribute to such payment.
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