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Service of Summons.
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LXIV. Any Summons issued by any Justice requiring the Appearance of any Defendant, or of any Witness or other Person with reference to any Information, Complaint, or other Proceeding pending for the Recovery of any Forfeiture, Penalty, or Sum of Money, or otherwise howsoever under this Act, shall be deemed to be well and sufficiently served in case either the Summons or a Copy thereof shall, Forty-eight Hours at least before the Time appointed for the Hearing of the Complaint, or other the Cause of such Summons, be served personally on any such Person as aforesaid, or be left at his usual or last Place of Abode, or at his Counting-house or Office, or other Place of Business, or (in case such Person be a licensed Proprietor of a Hackney Carriage, Job Carriage, Job Horse, Stage Carriage, or Cart,) at the Place registered as aforesaid as the Place of Abode or Business of such Proprietor, as the Case may be; and if such Place cannot be found, or if such Proprietor shall not be known thereat, then such Summons shall be deemed to be well and sufficiently served, if the same or a Copy thereof be fixed up in some conspicuous Place in the public Office or Place appointed for the hearing of Causes under this Act within the said Police District of Dublin Metropolis: Provided always, that in all Cases in which the Places of Abode, Counting-house, Office, or other Place of Business of such Proprietor shall be at a greater Distance than Two Miles from the General Post Office, such Proprietor shall be required, prior to the Issue of any Licence to him under this Act, to specify in his Application for the same a Place of Address within the Municipal District of the City of Dublin; and every Summons as aforesaid, or a Copy thereof, shall be deemed well and sufficiently served if served personally upon the known or reputed Driver of such Proprietor, or left at the usual Place of Abode of any such Driver, or if left at such Place of Address of such Proprietor, Forty-eight Hours at least before the Time appointed for the hearing of the Complaint or other Cause of Summons.
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