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Court of Session Inner House First Division.
Facts:
This was a petition to confirm the appointment and of new to appoint two gentlemen to the offices of Interim Sheriff-Clerks of Renfrewshire, the one for the upper ward of the county and the other for the lower, Mr Hector, the late holder of the office of Sheriff-Clerk, having died on 24th September 1880, and the gentlemen whose appointment was now asked to be confirmed having been appointed in vacation by the Lord Ordinary on the Bills. On the petition being moved in the Single Bills the Lord President requested information on the practice of appointing two gentlemen to a vacant office of the kind, and on being informed that in the case of Renfrew it had been done before, the prayer of the petition was granted, and Mr John Brough was appointed Interim Sheriff-Clerk for the upper ward of Renfrewshire, and Mr James Adam Interim Sheriff-Clerk for the lower, both gentlemen having respectively held the office of Depute Sheriff-Clerk under the late Mr Hector in these wards.
Counsel for Petitioner—Lord Advocate ( M'Laren, Q.C.) Agent— C. Morton, Crown Agent.