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Approved applications for new works, &c. where the sum exceeds 50l. to be certified by grand jury, &c.
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27. Provided always, that if any such application made at presentment sessions as aforesaid shall be for making any new road, or building any new bridge, or erecting, enlarging, repairing, rebuilding, or finishing any house or other building, the probable expense whereof shall exceed the sum of fifty pounds, and if the justices and cess payers at such sessions as aforesaid shall approve of such application, either wholly or in part, or of any modification thereof, they shall direct the county surveyor to prepare such specifications, maps, plans, sections, or elevations as may be necessary, expressing the nature and extent of such works, and the materials proper to be employed in performing and executing the same; and the chairman of such sessions shall indorse such application accordingly, and sign his name thereto, and deliver such application so indorsed to the secretary of the grand jury; and such secretary shall lay each and every such application before the grand jury to be impannelled at the assizes held next after such application shall have been approved at such sessions, to be certified by the foreman thereof, who shall certify the same accordingly; but it shall not be lawful for the grand jury at such first assizes held after the presentment sessions whereat such applications herein-before described shall have been approved to make any presentment thereupon.
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