Seven Days after such Delivery deliver to the Treasurer of such County, without Fee or Reward, a Copy thereof, attested upon Oath, and signed by himself; and such Treasurer shall return the same to the Foreman of the Grand Jury, at the Time when they shall be first impannelled at the ensuing Spring Assizes; and all and every the Powers, Authorities, or Provisions given or contained in the said last-mentioned Act in relation to Works, or the Execution of the same, and the raising or levying the Expence of the same, shall, as far as the same are applicable, and not inconsistent with this Act, extend and be applied in relation to the Works to be executed under this Act; and the several Forms in the Schedule to the said last-mentioned Act contained shall be used and applied, or altered and made applicable, as Occasion may require, in or in relation to the several Proceedings under this Act. Works to be ment. XI. And be it enacted, That the Secretary of the Grand Money for Jury for each such County as aforesaid, upon receiving the Completion of Certificate of Approval of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief raised by comGovernor or Governors of any Public Works for which Present- pulsory Payments shall have been made under the Provisions of this Act, or of any Part thereof, shall lay before the respective Grand Jury, at the next Assizes or Presenting Term, such Certificate of Approval, together with a Schedule under his Hand, attested upon Oath, of the respective Presentments for the Works as so approved, or in part approved, by the Lord Lieutenant, which shall have been contracted for or given in charge to the County Surveyor as aforesaid, and also specifying the respective Sums so under the Provisions of this Act required to be raised for such Works so wholly or in part approved and contracted for or given in charge within any such Barony or Half Barony respectively, and the Number and Amount of Instalments, if any, in which every such Sum respectively is by such Presentment so approved to be raised, with Interest thereon as aforesaid; and it shall be lawful for every such Grand Jury, and they are hereby required, to present the Sum or Instalments, as the Case may be, mentioned in every such Certificate of Approval and Schedule in the Manner therein approved and described, to be raised off the respective Baronies or Half Baronies, as the Case may be, within which such Works shall be respectively situate: Provided always, that if the Grand Jury of any County shall fail to present the Sum, or any Part thereof, or the Instalment, as the Case may be, specified in any such Certificate and Schedule, the Treasurer of such County shall and he is hereby required to insert such Sum, or such omitted Part thereof, or such Instalment, as the Case may be, in his Warrant for raising the Monies presented at the same Assizes, as if such Sum or Instalment had been duly presented by such Grand Jury to be raised off such Barony or Half Barony as aforesaid, and the Sum or Instalment shall be raised and levied off such Barony or Half Barony accordingly, as if the same had been so presented; and in the Case of Sums to be so raised by Instalments such respective Treasurer shall County Treasurer may bor row Money on Security of Presentment. Advances may tractor in cer tain Cases not exceeding Three Fourths of the shall and he is hereby required, in like Manner, and without further Presentment or Authority in that Behalf, to insert a like Instalment or Sum payable for each such Work as so approved and described in such Certificate and Schedule in his Warrant for raising and levying the Sums presented at each succeeding Assizes, until the whole Sum respectively payable for each such Work as so approved shall, with Interest as aforesaid, be so raised and levied off the respective Barony or Half Barony as aforesaid, and the same shall be raised and levied accordingly; and all the Provisions of the said recited Act of the Sixth and Seventh Years of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, with reference to the raising, Applotment, Collection, Levy, or Recovery of Grand Jury Cess, and the Payment of the same by the Treasurer, shall, as far as the same are applicable, apply to all such Sums of Money so inserted in such Warrant. XII. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Treasurer of any County in which Presentment shall have been made for the Completion of any Work under the Provisions of this Act, and which or any Part of which shall have been so approved by the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors, to borrow, upon the Security of the Presentment herein-before mentioned, any Sum not exceeding the Amount that the said Lord Lieutenant shall have approved for the Purpose of completing any such Work as aforesaid, with such Interest thereon as shall be stated in the Presentment for such Work as is herein-before mentioned; and if any Person shall agree with the said Treasurer to lend or advance the Amount of such Presentment, or of any Instalment thereof, for the Purposes of this Act, and shall pay the same into the Bank with which the said Treasurer has his public Account, to the Credit of the said Account, it shall be lawful for the said Treasurer to give to him a Draft upon the said Bank for the Amount of such Presentment or Instalment thereof as he shall so advance, and which Draft shall be countersigned by the Clerk of the Crown of the said County, and shall be made payable to the Payee or his Order, with such Interest as aforesaid, at the Assizes at which the said Presentment or Instalment ought to be paid under the Provisions of this Act; and any Sum or Sums which shall be lent or advanced as aforesaid shall be paid and applied by the said Treasurer in like Manner as the said Presentment or Instalment is directed to be applied under the Provisions of this Act. XIII. And be it enacted, That in Cases where the Cost of be paid to Con- completing and executing any Work as aforesaid shall exceed Twenty Pounds it shall and may be lawful for the Justices or Justice and Cess-payers, at any such Special Presentment Sessions, to authorize the Treasurer of the County, out of any Funds which he may have under his Control, to advance from Time to Time during the Execution of the Work to the Contractor or County Surveyor to whom any such Work shall be given in charge as aforesaid, and presented under this Act, upon Cost of Work. satisfied of the his Application, any Sum or Sums not exceeding in the whole Three Fourths of the Costs of such Work: Provided always, that no such Advances shall be made by such Treasurer unless such Application shall be accompanied by a Certificate attached thereto, and signed by the County Surveyor, that more than the Sum applied for by such Contractor in addition to any previous Advances made to him for such Work has been fairly and honestly expended upon the Work conformably to the Contract. XIV. And be it enacted, That any Person who may have County Surcontracted for the Execution of any Work under this Act may, veyor when on the Completion of the Work for which he may have con- Completion of tracted, if completed within the Year One thousand eight the Work may hundred and forty-eight, give Notice thereof by Post, addressed to the County Surveyor at his Office, who shall, either by himself or by his Assistants, within Fifteen Days from the Receipt of such Notice, examine the Work so represented to be completed, and in case he shall be fully satisfied of the due Execution of such Work, but not otherwise, shall grant his Certificate of Approval thereof to such Contractor, which Certificate shall set forth the Amount to be paid, and the Description and Number of the Contract on account of which Payment is to be made. grant his Certificate of Approval to the Contractor. Certificates Draft for the c. 53. XV. And be it enacted, That the Treasurer of such County On Producshall thereupon, upon the Production to him of such Certificate, tion of such give to the Person entitled to such Payment a Draft for the to the County Amount thereof, which Draft shall contain a Specification of Treasurer he the Purposes for which the same shall have been drawn, and of shall give a the Person to whom it is payable, and when so signed it shall Amount be the Authority for the Bankers in whose Bank the County thereof. Funds may be deposited to pay the Amount thereof, any thing in an Act of the First and Second Years of Her present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to amend an Act of the last 1 & 2 Vict. Session of Parliament, for providing more effectual Means to make Treasurers of Counties and Counties of Cities in Ireland account for Public Monies, and to secure the same, to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding, and such Draft shall be as valid to all Intents and Purposes as any Draft for the Payment of any Money given under the said last-mentioned Act; provided that after the Expiration of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight the Contractors for any such Works shall make Application for and receive Payment subject to the Provisions and Regulations of the Acts relating to the Presentment of Public Monies by Grand Juries in Ireland. 6 any Barony or Half Barony where Special Presentment been held to XVI. And whereas it may be expedient to complete Public Secretary of 'Works in certain Baronies and Half Baronies in Ireland Grand Jury in which have been commenced under the Provisions of the said 'first-recited Act, and which still remain unfinished, although 'the Amount authorized to be applied to the Execution of such Works by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury under the Provisions of the said Act shall have been expended, ' or shall not be sufficient to complete such Work;' be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the sions for the Grand Sessions have convene a Special Pre sentment Ses County for Purposes of this Act. How such sentment Ses- 7 W. 4. & Grand Jury of any County in Ireland in any Barony or Half Barony of which a Special Presentment Sessions shall have been held under the Provisions of this Act, and he is hereby required, by Notice under his Hand, to be posted at the usual Places of posting public Notices, to convene a Special Presentment Sessions for the County, to be holden in the County Court House, for the Purposes of this Act, at such Time as shall be specified in such Notice, not being sooner than Seven Days from the Time of posting such Notice nor later than Six Weeks after the first Special Presentment Sessions shall have been held for any Barony or Half Barony within such County under the Provisions of this Act. XVII. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for every Justice of the Peace in and for such County, not being a Stipendiary Magistrate, to attend, and all such Justices are hereby required to assemble, and with the Cess-payers associated with them respectively, as herein-after appointed, to hold such Special County Presentment Sessions for the Purposes of this Act, at the said County Court House, at such Time as shall be specified in the said Notice; and at such Sessions the Secretary of the Grand Jury shall attend; and the said Justices and Cess-payers, or so many of them as shall be present at such Sessions, shall constitute a Special County Presentment Sessions for the Purposes of this Act; and the several Provisions contained in the said recited Act of the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of King William the Fourth relating to the Selection of a Chairman, and the Powers, Duties, and Authorities of such Chairman and of Justices and Cess-payers respectively at County Presentment Sessions, and relating to adjourned Sessions for opening Tenders and the making of Contracts thereat, and relating to the Declarations to be made by the Justices and Cess-payers respectively who shall act at any County Presentment Sessions, and also relating to the Powers, Duties, and Authorities of the Secretaries of Grand Juries, County Surveyors, Clerks of the Crown, Clerks of the Peace, and all other Officers respectively, shall, as amended by an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to amend an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to the Presentment of Public Money by Grand Juries in Ireland, as far as the same are applicable, or may be necessary for carrying out the Provisions of this Act, and not inconsistent with such Provisions, extend to all Proceedings respectively to be had at the Special County Presentment Sessions to be held under the Provisions of this Act, in as full and ample a Manner as if the same were herein repeated and enacted, unless where other Provisions are hereby substituted; provided that in any Declaration to be made by any such Justice or Cess-payer the Title of this Act shall be inserted together with the Title of the said Act of the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of King William the Fourth. XVIII. And sentment XVIII. And be it enacted, That the Justices and Cess- One Cess-payer payers associated at each Special Presentment Sessions held for for every Baany Barony or Half Barony under the Provisions of this Act Barony to be shall select One of the said Cess-payers for every Barony or associated with Half Barony for which such Sessions are appointed to be asso- Justices of the ciated with the Justices of the County as a Member of the said Special PreSpecial County Presentment Sessions, and the Secretary of the sentment Grand Jury shall make out a List of the Persons 'so chosen at County Sessuch Special Presentment Sessions held for such Barony or Half sions. Barony, and shall forthwith notify the same, and the Day appointed for such Special County Presentment Sessions, to them, and shall read out the same List previous to the Appointment of the Chairman for the said Special County Presentment Sessions; and the Secretary of the Grand Jury shall place before Proceedings such Sessions the Report or Reports made by the County Sur- at Special veyor to the Special Presentment Sessions held for any Barony County Preor Half Barony, or Baronies or Half Baronies, within the County, Sessions. as the same shall have been endorsed by the Chairman thereof respectively, under the Provisions of this Act; and the Justices and Cess-payers associated in the Business of the said Special County Presentment Sessions shall take such Reports into consideration as far as the same shall relate to Works in respect of which no Residue or Balance shall remain unexpended of the Amount authorized by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to be applied to the Execution of the same, under the Provisions of the said first-recited Act, or in respect of which such Residue or Balance shall not be sufficient to complete such Works, and shall decide, by a Majority of Voices, on the Merits of each of such last-mentioned, Works, and whether the same ought or ought not to be completed, and whether wholly or in part, or conditionally in the event of the Expence thereof not exceeding a certain specified Sum, and what Modification thereof, if any, may be proper, and in case of their Approval of the Completion of any of such last-mentioned Works, either wholly or in part, or conditionally, or of any Modification thereof, shall give Directions respecting the Preparations of Forms of Tender for the same; and all and every the Powers, Authorities, or Provisions given or contained in this Act in relation to Works approved of wholly or in part at Special Presentment Sessions held for any Barony or Half Barony, and the Execution of the same and the Approval of the same by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, and in relation to presenting Monies or raising or levying Monies presented for the Execution of such Works, and borrowing Money on the Security of such Presentment, and making Advances to Contractors in respect of the same, and otherwise relating to such Monies or such Works, shall extend and be applied, as far as the same are applicable, in relation to all Works approved of wholly or in part at any such Special County Presentment Sessions held under the Provisions of this Act. XIX. And whereas under an Act passed in the Session Five per Cent. ' held in the First Year of Her present Majesty, intituled An Interest to be • Act allowed on all |