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When grant is approved of applicants shall enter into securities and pay a moiety of estimated expense, and commissioners shall open an account for the road or bridge, and cause the construction thereof to be proceeded with, &c.
Commissioners may make contracts for construction of road or bridge, &c., and pay the necessary sums.
If expense exceeds the estimate, the excess shall be paid by applicants, unless the Treasury release them and make a further grant.
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65. So soon as any such application for a grant of money for making any road or bridge shall have been approved of and sanctioned in manner aforesaid the parties making such application shall enter into such securities as may have been agreed upon, and shall pay the moiety of the estimated expense of constructing the road or bridge which is the subject of such application, either in the whole, or by such instalments and at such times and in such manner and to such persons as the said commissioners for the execution of this Act shall fix and appoint; and so soon as such security shall be entered into, and such sum or sums of money, or instalment on account thereof, paid, the said commissioners for the execution of this Act shall open an account in their books for such road or bridge, and shall from time to time place to the credit of such account all such sum and sums of money as may be required for the construction of such road or bridge, not exceeding a moiety of the amount of the estimate thereof herein-before directed to be made, and shall forthwith cause the construction of such road or bridge to be proceeded with; and every such road and bridge shall be constructed in conformity to the plan and survey thereof approved of and sanctioned in the manner herein-before directed; and the said commissioners for the execution of this Act are hereby authorized and empowered to make such contracts or agreements with any skilful engineers or surveyors, and their sureties, for the construction of such road or bridge, or at their discretion to appoint and employ such engineers or surveyors or other persons as they shall think proper to construct such roads and bridges under their own direction and from time to time, under such regulations as the said commissioners for the execution of this Act shall direct, to draw for the necessary sums to defray the expense thereof; and such payments so from time to time made shall be placed to the debit of the account of the said respective roads or bridges: Provided always, that if the actual expense of constructing any such road or bridge shall exceed the estimated expense, all such excess of expense shall be defrayed by the several parties or persons who shall have given the security herein-before directed, and shall have contributed towards raising a moiety of the said estimated expense, according to the respective proportions which they may have so contributed thereto: Provided further, that it shall and may be lawful for the Treasury, upon good cause to them shown, to release the said parties or persons from the obligation to pay such excess of expense or any portion thereof, according to their discretion, and to direct that the same shall be supplied by such further grant out of the said consolidated fund as may be necessary; and such further grant shall and may be made upon warrant of the Treasury.
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