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No stamp duty upon contracts, recognizances, and receipts, under this Act.
Proceedings for breach of contract, or to enforce recognizance where sum does not exceed 100l., may be by civil bill.
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148. No contract for any public work under the provisions of this Act, or any recognizance to be entered into for the execution, of the same by virtue of this Act, or any receipt given by any collector under this Act, shall be liable or subject to any stamp duty imposed by any Act or Acts passed or to be passed, unless specially mentioned therein; and whenever the amount of any such contract, or the sum for which any such recognizance shall be conditioned, or the sum sought to be recovered by virtue of such recognizance or contract, shall not exceed the sum of one hundred pounds, it shall be lawful to proceed against any such contractor or his securities for such sum, or for damages for the breach of any such contract, by civil bill before the chairman of Kilmainham; and the said chairman shall have full power to hold plea thereof, and the same shall and may be proceeded on in like manner in all respects, and the like decree or judgment and execution shall and may be had thereon, and also the like benefit of appeal, and of proceedings, judgment, and execution thereon, as in case of any other sum or demand which may now by law be had or used before such chairman.
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