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Applications to be lodged with high constable or secretary of grand jury, &c.
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14. Every application to be made at presentment sessions shall be lodged with some high constable of the county, in which such application is to be made, fifteen days, or with the secretary of the grand jury ten days at least before the day appointed for holding of the first presentment sessions in such county after any assizes; and every high constable, with whom any such applications shall be lodged, shall transmit such applications to the secretary of the grand jury ten days before the day appointed for holding such first sessions; and such secretary shall keep an office open, for the purpose of receiving such applications, during ten days immediately preceding the last day upon which such applications are required to be lodged with the secretary; and the said applications shall be open to public inspection without fee or reward; and such secretary shall, on the receipt of each application, endorse or cause to be endorsed thereupon the time when the same is lodged, and number and arrange all such applications as the works therein comprised may be proposed to be defrayed by the county at large or by any barony thereof, and shall make an abstract thereof and an index thereto referring to the numbers which he shall mark on each application; and such secretary shall produce and deliver all the applications which shall have been lodged with him or delivered at his office as aforesaid at the sessions proper as herein-before provided for the consideration of the same, together with the abstract thereof and the index thereto.
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