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Manner in which applications are to be made.
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16. Every application to presentment sessions for any presentment other than for a public work shall be made by or on behalf of the person or persons requiring such presentment, and every application to any such sessions for any public work shall be made by two persons paying grand jury cess, or by the county surveyor; and every application to presentment sessions, whether for a public work or any other purpose whatsoever, shall set out the title of the Act authorizing such presentment, with the year of the King’s reign, chapter, and section, as printed by his Majesty’s printer, and shall specify the probable expense of the proposed work, and whether the money proposed to be raised thereunder is to be levied off the county at large or some or what barony or other denomination of land thereof, and shall be made in some one of the forms marked (A.), (B.), (C.), (D.), and so forth, in the schedule (X.) to this Act annexed, when any of such forms shall be found fitting and suitable; and every such application shall be signed by the person or persons by whom the same shall respectively be made, with his or their own proper hands; and it shall not be lawful, save as herein-after provided, for the secretary of the grand jury to receive any application which shall not have been made in manner and form herein appointed.
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