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Grand Jury may make presentments for a fever hospital in a county, &c. to be raised by instalments within six years.
Presentment being certified by clerk of the crown to the lord lieutenant, he may order advance of money out of the consolidated fund to the treasurer of the county, &c. for the purposes of such presentment.
Treasurer to repay the money so advanced.
Surplus money raised shall be carried to the credit of the county.
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It shall and may be lawful to and for any grand jury of any county or county of a city or county of a town, in which any fever hospital shall not have been erected before the passing of this Act, or in which it shall be made appear to the satisfaction of the grand jury that any fever hospital in such county, county of a city, or county of a town requires to be enlarged, repaired, or rebuilt, to present, at any assizes for such county, county of a city or town, any sum or sums of money for the purpose of erecting and establishing, or hiring, repairing, and fitting up one fever hospital in any such county, county of a city or town, in which no such hospital shall have been previously established, or for the purpose of enlarging, repairing, rebuilding, or supporting any fever hospital which shall have been previously established, and to set forth in such presentment that the sum therein mentioned shall be raised and levied within the period of six years by half-yearly or yearly instalments, and also to set forth in such presentment what part thereof shall be raised upon any barony or baronies in any such county, or on the county at large; and the treasurer of such county, county of a city, or county of a town shall from time to time, without further authority or presentment on that behalf, insert in his warrant at each assizes the portion or portions so set forth of the sum so presented; and the same shall be raised and levied in like manner from time to time, and with the like remedy in case of non-payment, as all other money directed by such warrant is by law to be levied; and when and so soon as such presentment shall have been duly certified by the acting clerk of the crown to the lord lieutenant, or his chief secretary, it shall and may be lawful to and for such lord lieutenant to direct the amount of such sum of money so presented or any part thereof to be advanced out of the growing produce of the consolidated fund in Ireland to the treasurer of such county, county of a city, or county of a town, to be applied for the purposes for which such presentment shall have been made, under such rules and regulations as to such lord lieutenant shall seem fitting and expedient; and such money so advanced and paid to such treasurer shall be accounted for by him in like manner as any other monies received by him for the use of such county; and all securities given by him or on his behalf shall extend to such money; and such treasurer shall from time to time pay to the collector of excise of the district in which such county, county of a city, or county of a town, all such sums as shall from time to time be received by him from the baronial or other collectors by virtue of the presentments on account of which such money shall have been advanced, until the whole sum advanced shall be repaid: Provided always, that if it shall so happen that any money shall be raised by virtue of any such presentment or presentments which shall not be required for the purposes for which it shall be so raised, the same shall be carried to the credit generally of the county or of the county of the town or of the county of the city, whereon the same shall be levied, by the treasurer of such county or county of a town or county of a city respectively.
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