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County surveyor to examine applications and make application respecting public works, as to which none has been already made.
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15. The county surveyor shall examine all the applications so lodged with the secretary of the grand jury as aforesaid; and in case no application shall have been made for the necessary surface repairs of any public road or footpath, or the keeping open of any drain adjoining any public road, or any other public work which to the said county surveyor shall appear necessary, it shall be lawful and he is hereby required to make application for the same in the manner herein-after appointed at the next presentment sessions to be holden for the county or barony by which the expense of such work ought to be defrayed; and it shall not be necessary for the said surveyor to lodge any application made by him with the secretary of the grand jury, but such application being delivered to the chairman at such sessions shall be dealt with thereat in all respects in the same manner as the other applications which shall have been lodged with the secretary of the grand jury.
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