Petty Sessions Clerk (Ireland) Act, 1858

Allowances in case of prosecution by constabulary or public officer.

25. Whenever any case at petty sessions shall be prosecuted by the constabulary or any public officer on behalf of the Crown, some one of the justices at petty sessions shall, when required so to do, endorse upon each of the stamped forms used in and for the purpose of such prosecution the words “constabulary prosecution,” or “public prosecution,” as the case may be, and sign his name thereto; and the sub-inspector or other officer to whom the forms so used and endorsed as aforesaid may have been supplied shall, upon production thereof to the registrar, and upon his making a solemn declaration that no part thereof has been recovered as costs of prosecution or is likely to be so recovered, be entitled to receive and shall receive other stamped forms to the nominal amount or value of those so produced as aforesaid.