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Applications to be decided upon at sessions.
Justices to direct the surveyor to prepare forms of tender with specifications, &c.
Applications and forms of tender, &c. to be delivered to secretary of grand jury.
Adjourned sessions for opening tenders and proposals.
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17. At each presentment sessions to be holden as herein-before provided the justices and cess payers associated in the business of such sessions shall take into consideration all such applications as may be laid before them in manner aforesaid, and examine into the posting or serving of the notices of all such applications, when a notice shall be necessary, and into the merits of such applications, and the conformity thereof with the provisions of this Act; and the said justices and cess payers shall after such examination decide by majority of voices upon every such application, and whether the same ought to be adopted or rejected, and whether wholly or in part, or conditionally in the event of the expense thereof not exceeding a certain specified sum, and what modification thereof, if any, may be proper; and if such justices and cess payers shall approve of any proposed work either wholly or in part, or conditionally, or of any modification thereof, they shall, save in the case of applications herein-after otherwise provided for, direct the county surveyor to prepare a proper form of tender for the execution of the same, together with such specifications, maps, plans, sections, or elevations as may be necessary, expressing the nature and extent of such works, and, if the sessions shall so direct, the quantity per perch and the description of the materials proper to be employed in performing and executing the same, and the term within which such work ought to be completed, and such other particulars as the said justices and cess payers shall think fit; and such chairman shall endorse all applications accordingly which shall be adopted and approved, and sign his name thereto, and deliver all such applications, so endorsed, to the secretary of the grand jury; and such county surveyor shall deliver such form of tender, specifications, maps, plans, sections, or elevations in respect of the work to which each application shall relate, as soon thereafter as the same can be conveniently prepared, to the secretary of the grand jury; and the said justices and cess payers shall appoint the manner in which notice for the receipt of tenders and proposals for the execution of such works shall be given, and the period during which they shall be received, and shall adjourn such sessions until some day previous to the next assizes, to be then holden for the opening of such sealed tenders and proposals, such day not being later than thirty days from the day of such adjournment.
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