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The Commissioners of the Treasury may make temporary Advances to the Commissioners under this Act for the Expences of preliminary Inquiries, &c. under the Provisions for summary Proceedings.
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LI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, or any Three or more of them, to cause to be issued as a temporary Advance, from Time to Time during the Present Year, as they may find necessary, out of the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Ten thousand Pounds, by way of Imprest, to the said Commissioners for the Execution of this Act, to be by them applied in providing for the Expences of procuring and prosecuting any such preliminary Examinations or Inquiries under the Provisions for summary Proceedings under this Act, and in procuring a sufficient Supply of Tools for executing any Works to be carried on under the last-mentioned Provisions; and in every such Case in which any Portion of such Monies so advanced and issued shall be so applied by the said Commissioners, such Sum of Money so applied in respect of any such Work shall be repaid to the Consolidated Fund by the said Commissioners, in such Manner as the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury may, direct, from and out of any Funds or Monies to be borrowed or raised by them for defraying the Costs, Charges, and Expences incurred or to be incurred in the Execution of such Work: Provided always, that in any Case where the Expences of any such preliminary Investigation and Inquiry as last aforesaid as to the Works for any proposed Drainage or Improvement shall have been defrayed out of the Monies so advanced and issued as last aforesaid by the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, and the Assents of the Proprietors as to such Works, as required by the Provisions for summary Proceedings under this Act, shall not have been obtained within the Time limited by the said Commissioners for that Purpose, the Amount of such Expences shall be paid to the said Commissioners for the Execution of this Act by the Person or Parties who shall have applied by Memorial in such Case, and by said last-mentioned Commissioners be paid over to the Consolidated Fund; and in default of Payment by such Person or Party who shall have applied by Memorial as aforesaid, the Amount of such Expences shall be recovered from such Person or Party in such Manner as by said first-recited Act is directed for the Recovery of unpaid Balances of preliminary Expences under the Provisions of said first-recited Act.
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