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Performance of duties during absence of Registrar of Judgments, &c.
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23. During the temporary absence of the said Registrar of Judgments, and during the temporary absence of the Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper from their respective offices, the affixing or signing the name of the said Registrar of Judgments by the chief clerk in his office, and of the name of the said Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper by the chief clerk in his office, to all memorandums, entries, certificates, proceedings, and documents, upon their being respectively duly authorized in that behalf by the said Registrar of Judgments and Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper so to do, but not otherwise, shall be as good, valid, and effectual as if the same respectively were affixed or signed by the said Registrar of Judgments and Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper: Provided always, that the said Registrar of Judgments and Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper shall respectively be as liable to all actions or other proceedings by any persons damnified by such affixing or signing of their respective names by their respective chief clerks as they would be if the same had been affixed or signed by themselves respectively.
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