Charitable Loan Societies (Ireland) Act, 1843

If notes of a loan society are attested by a clerk afterwards dismissed, &c. his handwriting may be proved in like manner as upon his death.

34. In every case in which the execution of any note or other security issued by any loan society shall be attested by any clerk or other officer or servant of such loan society, and such clerk or other officer or servant shall afterwards be dismissed or cease to be employed by such loan society, or in case of the dissolution of such society, or of the winding-up of its affairs under the authority of the loan fund board as herein-after mentioned, then and in every such case the handwriting of such attesting witness may be proved in like manner to all intents and purposes as the same might be proved in case such attesting witness were dead, and such proof shall have the like force and effect as if he were dead.