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Summary Mode of hearing Complaints against Officers.
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XXVIII. And whereas it is expedient that a summary Mode of hearing any Complaint against any Person in the said Register Office should be provided; be it therefore enacted, That upon any Complaint made on Oath, before any of His Majesty’s superior Courts of Law or Equity in Dublin, of any Neglect, Default, or Misconduct of the Registrar or any Assistant Registrar or Clerk employed in the said Register Office, it shall be lawful for such Court, or any of the Judges or a Judge thereof, and the said Court, Judges or Judge, are hereby required in open Court to hear and determine such Complaint in a summary Manner; and the said Court, Judges or Judge, if they or he shall think proper, may examine upon Oath the Party complaining and the Party complained against, and dismiss the Complaint, with reasonable Costs, if the Complaint shall appear frivolous or vexatious, or award Compensation to the Complainant, or impose a pecuniary Penalty or Fine upon the Party complained against to any Amount not exceeding the Sum of One hundred Pounds, or adjudge the Party complained of to be a moved from his Place in the said Office, as the Case may require, and shall forthwith cause a Copy of the Judgment pronounced upon such Complaint to be laid before the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland and thereupon it shall be lawful for the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland to order the Person upon the Complaint against whom such Judgment was given to pay such Penalty, Fine, or Compensation, or to be removed from his Office or Employment in the said Register Office, or to order the said Registrar, out of any Salary that may be due or that shall accrue to the Person against whom such Judgment shall have been given; to pay and discharge such Penalty, Fine, or Compensation aforesaid; and where such Penalty or Fine shall be imposed, the Amount of such Penalty shall be paid into the said Register Office, and shall be applied as if the same had accrued from Fees paid in the said Office; and in case of Nonpayment of the Damages aforesaid, the Person to whom such Compensation shall be ordered to be paid may sue for the same in an Action of Debt in any Court of Record in the City of Dublin.
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