Public Works (Ireland) Act, 1831

Commissioners may authorize grand juries to construct roads and bridges.

70. If the commissioners for the execution of this Act shall think fit so to do, they are hereby empowered to authorize any grand jury making such presentment as herein-before appointed for the purpose of obtaining any grant under the provisions of this Act to construct any road or bridge under direction of any engineer or surveyor, or such other person or persons as such grand jury shall think fit to employ to construct such road or bridge, in the same manner as grand juries are now or hereafter shall be empowered to construct and make any road or bridge where the expense of the same shall be wholly defrayed by grand jury presentments.