City of Dublin (Rates) Act 1849

Power to Lord Lieutenant to appoint Officers and Collectors, and remove them from Time to Time.

XII. And be it enacted, That the Lord Lieutenant may retain for the Purposes of this Act such Clerks, Collectors, and other Officers employed by the said Bodies Politic or Corporate, Boards, Commissioners, or Persons, at the Commencement of this Act, as he shall think fit, and from Time to Time appoint and employ such Clerks, Collectors, and all such other Officers to assist in the Execution of this Act as he shall think necessary and proper, and from Time to Time remove any such Officers, and appoint others in the Room of such as shall be so removed, or may die, or resign or discontinue their Offices, and shall, out of the Monies to be collected and levied under the Provisions of this Act, direct such Salaries and Allowances to be paid to the said Officers respectively as he shall think reasonable: Provided always, that no Clerk, Collector, or other Officer employed in the Police Department of the District of Dublin Metropolis, and whose Office shall be abolished or rendered unnecessary by the passing of this Act, shall be so retained or employed without his Consent; and provided also, that before any such Officer is so retained or appointed the Collector General shall certify under his Hand to the Lord Lieutenant the Fitness of such Person to discharge the Duties of his Office; and that any Collector appointed and employed under the Provisions herein contained shall be paid by such Poundage Rate upon the Sums collected by him under the Provisions of this Act, or by such Salary, as the Lord Lieutenant shall think fit.