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Collector General and other Officers prohibited from taking any Part at Elections.
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XXIV. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any Collector General appointed by virtue of this Act, or for any Officer or Servant of the said Collector General employed for the Purposes of this Act, to be a Member of Parliament, or to vote or to take any Part or to act any Manner at any Election of a Member or Members to serve in Parliament for the City of Dublin, otherwise than as he by Law may be required to do in his official Capacity; and in case any such Collector General shall take any Part or act in any Manner at any such Election, save as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay for every such Offence the Sum of Three hundred Pounds; and in case any Officer or Servant of the said Collator General shall, save as aforesaid, take any Part at such Election, he shall forfeit and pay for every such Offence a Sum of One hundred Pounds; which said several Penalties shall be paid to any Person who may sue for the same respectively, for his own Use and Benefit, and may be recovered by any such Person by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information in any of Her Majesty’s Superior Courts in Ireland.
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