XLII. And be it further enacted, That any Justice of the Peace for the County of _Middlesex_ may act as such in the Execution of this Act, notwithstanding he may at the same Time be a Trustee under this Act; and none of the said Trustees, nor any rated Inhabitant or Occupier of any House, Building, or Tenement within the Jurisdiction of this Act, shall by reason thereof be deemed an incompetent Witness in any Action, Prosecution, Information, Complaint, Appeal, or Proceeding whatsoever relating to the Execution of this Act, or to any Rate made in pursuance thereof; and all Notices and Summonses which are required to be given by this Act, or which may be necessary for carrying this Act into Execution, may be either written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, and may (in all Cases in which the Manner of serving the same is not particularly directed by this Act) be served either by delivering the same to the Person or Persons to whom such Notices or Summonses respectively are directed, or by leaving the same at the usual or last known Place of Abode of such Person or Persons, or at or upon any House, Building, or Tenement whereunto such Notices or Summonses respectively shall relate. XLIII. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees may sue and be sued in the Name of their Clerk or Treasurer for the Time being, and not otherwise; and no such Action or Suit shall abate or be discontinued by the Death or Removal of such Clerk or Treasurer, but the Clerk or Treasurer for the Time being to the said Trustees shall always be deemed Plaintiff or Defendant, as the Case may be, but such Clerk or Treasurer shall not be personally answerable for any Damages or Costs which may be recovered against him by reason of his being so made Plaintiff or Defendant, but such Damages and Costs respectively shall be paid by the said Trustees out of the Money to be raised under this Act; and such Clerk or Treasurer shall be a competent Witness in such Action, notwithstanding he may be the nominal Plaintiff or Defendant. XLIV. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Trustees from Time to Time to hire any Room or Building, as they shall think fit, in any convenient Place within the Limits of this Act, to be used as and for an Office or Offices for keeping their Accounts, holding their Meetings, and transacting the Business relating to this Act, or for other the Purposes of this Act, and to accept and take a Lease of such Room or Building to themselves, or any of them, or to any Person or Persons in Trust for them, for any Term or Number of Years, at and under such Rent or Rents as they shall from Time to Time think fit, and to pay such Rent or Rents out of the Money to arise by virtue of this Act.