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Appointment of replevingers.
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42. The sheriff for the time being for every county, county of a city, or county of a town in Ireland shall, within ten days after he shall be sworn in as sheriff, depute a sufficient number of persons in such county, county of a city, or county of a town, to act as replevinger or replevingers in cases of distresses for rent, so that there shall be at least one such replevinger in every town wherein general or quarter sessions of the peace are held; and for every refusal or neglect to appoint within ten days a replevinger, or a sufficient number of persons to act as replevingers, as aforesaid, and also for every month during which there shall not be one such replevinger in each such sessions town, every such sheriff shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty pounds, to be recoverable by civil bill by any person who will sue for the same; and such replevinger or replevingers so to be appointed as aforesaid shall have authority in the sheriff’s name to grant replevins and make do, . . .
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