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The paymaster of corn premiums may appoint one or two deputies, to be approved of by the commissioners of excise,
to be paid at the expence of the said paymaster, and have the same power.
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XXI. And whereas in case of sickness or necessary absence, the paymaster of corn premiums is empowered at present by law to appoint a deputy to execute the duties of said office: and whereas in such case, such deputy so appointed, may through some fatality be disabled from attending said office: and whereas from the considerable hurry of business in said office, particularly on market-days, it might prove expedient, and the means of preventing and detecting of frauds, and of expediting the business of said office, if the paymaster had the assistance of one or two deputies on all occasions; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the paymaster of corn premiums shall and may in all cases have power, and is hereby empowered to appoint and remove, during his pleasure, from time to time, one or two persons, as his deputy or deputies, for whom he shall be answerable, but who shall be first approved of by the commissioners of excise, or any three of them, and shall be paid at the expence of the said paymaster, and each of said deputies shall have like power of administering oaths, and executing the duties of said office as the principal.
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