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the partner or partners of any such clerk or clerks, or the 

 clerk or clerks or other person or persons in the service or 

 employ of any such clerk or clerks, or of his or their partner 

 or partners, shall accept the office of treasurer, or shall act 

 as deputy of such treasurer or treasurers, or in any manner 

 officiate for such treasurer or treasurers, or being the partner 

 or partners of any such treasurer or treasurers, or the clerk 

 or clerks or other person or persons in the service or employ 

 of any such treasurer or treasurers, or of his or their partner 

 or partners, shall accept the office of clerk in the execution of 

 this act, or shall act as deputy of such clerk, or in any 

 manner officiate for such clerk, or if any such treasurer or 

 treasurers shall hold or accept any place or office of trust 

 or profit under the said commissioners and overseers other 

 than that of treasurer, every such person so offending shall 

 for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of 100 J. to 

 any person or persons who shall sue for the same, to be re- 

 covered, with full costs of suit, in the same way in which any 

 of the penalties by this act imposed may be sued for and 

 recovered. 

 sioJTe^ and 40. And be it further enacted and declared, that the said 



may S s e u<Pand commissioners and overseers may sue or be sued, for any 

 name^f Their ma tter or thing to be done in the execution of this act, in the 

 clerk. name of their clerk for the time being, or in the name of any 



one of the said commissioners and overseers ; and that no 

 action or suit wherein the said commissioners and overseers 

 shall be concerned as plaintiffs or pursuers, or defendants or 

 defenders, in the name of their clerk, or in the name of any 

 one of the said commissioners and overseers, by virtue of 

 this act, shall abate by the death or removal of any such clerk 

 or commissioner and overseer, but that the clerk to the said 

 commissioners and overseers for the time being, or any one 

 of the said commissioners and overseers to be for that pur- 

 pose nominated, if plaintiff or pursuer, or who may be sued 

 if defendant or defender, shall be deemed to be the plaintiff 

 or pursuer, or defendant or defender (as the case may be), 

 in every such action or suit. 



