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Grand or petty jurors or witness, not attending quarter sessions on summons, if no sufficient excuse fined not above 5l.
levied by process in nature of execution,
on husband of feme-covert,
fines to the workhouse.
clerk’s fee 23. & 6d.
officers 2s. & 6d.
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XXI. And whereas the administration of justice in the court of quarter sessions, held in and for the said county of the said city of Cork, hath been greatly impeded by the non-attendance of the grand jurors, petty jurors, and witnesses: be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the mayor and justices of the peace for the county of the said city, for the recorder of the said city, or the deputy recorder of the said city, as they or any of them shall happen to preside at the said court of quarter sessions, or at any adjournment thereof, to impose a fine not exceeding five pounds on any grand juror, petty juror, or witness, that shall be legally summoned to attend at the said court of quarter sessions or at any adjournment thereof, and shall refuse or neglect to appear pursuant to the said summons, and for whom no sufficient excuse shall be laid before the court; and that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said mayor and justices, and to and for the said recorder or deputy recorder, as they or any of them shall happen to preside at the said court of quarter sessions or at any adjournment thereof, to issue from and out of the said court process from time to time in the nature of an execution, directed to the serjeants at mace, the constables of the county of the said city, and the bailiffs of the same, or to any one or more of them, to levy the said fine off the goods and chattles of such grand juror or petty juror, or witness, who shall be so fined as aforesaid; and in case any such witness shall be a feme-covert, to levy the said fine off the goods and chattles of the husband of such feme-covert; and that the said fine, when levied, shall be paid over to the governors of the workhouse of the said city of Cork for the use of the said workhouse, deducting thereout the sum of two shillings and six pence, to be paid to the clerk of the peace for the county of the said city for his trouble in making out and issuing the said process, and deducting thereout the further sum of two shillings and six pence, to be paid to such of the said serjeants at mace, constables, or bailiffs, as shall execute the said process, for his or their trouble.
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