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Amount of money so expended to be certified to the grand jury of the county, who shall raise the same by presentment:
and the same when raised shall be paid to the collector of excise.
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83. Whenever any such road or bridge, or any portion thereof, shall be put in good and sufficient repair, under the directions of the commissioners for the execution of this Act, the secretary to the said commissioners shall certify to the secretary of the grand jury of any and every county within which any such road or bridge, or any portion thereof, shall be situate respectively, the amount of money which shall have been so expended upon the repair of any such road or bridge, or any portion thereof, within any and every such county respectively; and every such certificate shall, at the next or some succeeding assizes, be laid before the grand jury of any and every county respectively, and thereupon it shall and may be lawful to and for the grand jury of any and every such county respectively, and any and every such grand jury are hereby authorized and required, to make presentment of the amount of such expenses as stated in such certificate, to be raised off such county at large, or off the subdivision thereof whereon the moiety of the expense of constructing such road or bridge may have been levied under the provisions herein-before made in that behalf; and it shall not be lawful for the court at any assizes to fiat any presentment for raising any other money, until such presentment for such expenses be first made and allowed; and when and so soon as the sum so to be presented as aforesaid shall be raised and received by the treasurer of any and every such county respectively, such treasurer shall pay over the same respectively to the collector of excise for the district in which such road or bridge, or portion thereof, shall be respectively situate, to be by him accounted for as other public monies which may come to his hands.
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