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Guardians, &c. not to be concerned in contracts, &c. whilst in office.
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93. [1]
No guardian, paid officer, warden, or other person in whose hands the collection of the rates for the relief of the destitute poor, or the providing for, ordering, management, control, or direction of the destitute poor of any union, shall or may be placed, shall, either in his own name or in the name of any other person, provide, furnish, or supply, for his own profit, any materials, goods, or provisions for the use of any workhouse in any union for which he or they shall be appointed or act as such during the time for which he or they shall retain such appointment, nor shall be concerned, directly or indirectly, in furnishing or supplying the same, or in any contract relating thereto, under pain of forfeiting the sum of one hundred pounds, to any person who shall sue for the same by action in any of her Majesty’s courts of record at Dublin.
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[1 No action can be commenced under this section, except by the Commissioners without the consent of the Chairman of Quarter Sessions, and upon a verdict for the plaintiff the judge may reduce the penalty to any sum not less than 25l., 32 & 33 Vict. c. 54 ss. 1, 3.] |
