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Presentment Session and Grand Jury may approve of Works, and undertake to pay the Costs, thereof.
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XIX. And be it enacted, That in every Case in which it shall be proposed that any River or Part of a River shall be made navigable, or the Navigation thereof improved as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Justices and associated Cess-payers, at the Presentment Session of each Barony or Half Barony within the District likely to be benefited by the Improvement of such River or Part of a River, and also at the Presentment Session to be holden for the County at large at any Time previous to or within Twelve Months after the Time of holding such Meetings as last aforesaid, to make a Declaration in the Form in the Schedule to this Act annexed, or as near thereto as may be convenient, approving of the proposed Works, and consenting that such Proportion of the Costs and Expences of effectuating the Portion of the Works relating to the Improvement of the Navigation of such River as shall be assessed upon such Barony or Half Barony, or any Townland or Townlands, or upon the County at large, under the Provisions of this Act, shall be raised off such Barony, Half Barony, or Townlands, or such County at large respectively; and every such Declaration shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Grand Jury of such County, and shall be laid by him before the Grand Jury of the said County at the next ensuing Assizes, together with the Report, Schedules, Maps, Plans, Sections, and Estimates, relating thereto, and it shall be lawful for such Grand Jury to make Presentment allowing or disallowing the same; and it shall be lawful for any Person liable to be assessed under and by virtue of any Grand Jury Presentment, for any Proportion of such Costs and Expences, to traverse any such Presentment, and such Traverse shall be made and tried and in all respects disposed of as any Traverse of any Presentment for any public Work under any Act or Acts in force in Ireland relating to the Presentment of public Money by Grand Juries in Ireland; and all the Provisions of any such Act or Acts in relation to the Traverse of any such Presentment shall apply to any Traverse to be so made as aforesaid.
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