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Recovery of such monies repayable by grand jury presentment.
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18. With respect to all such advances of public money as aforesaid which, by the Act or Acts under the authority of which the same were made, were to be repaid by grand jury presentment, the chief or under secretary of the lord lieutenant shall, one week at least before each assizes or presenting term, certify to the secretary of the grand jury for every county to or for the use of which, or of any part of which, any such advance as aforesaid was made, the amount of the sum remaining due on account of such advance, specifying in such certificate the purpose or object on account of which, and also the Act or Acts under the authority of which, such advance was made, and whether the same, or any and what part thereof, is chargeable against the whole or any and what division or part of such county, and if so authorized by the Treasury, the instalment or portion of such sum or sums which it is considered just or necessary to call for at the time of giving such certificate; and every such secretary as aforesaid is hereby required, in the case of the county or city of Dublin at the presenting term, and in the case of any other county at the assizes next ensuing the receipt of such certificate, to lay the same before the grand jury of the county of which he is such secretary; and thereupon each such grand jury is hereby empowered and required to present the sum therein stated to be due and owing by such county, or any district or part thereof, on account of such advance, or such instalment or portion thereof, as may be so required by such certificate to be then presented, if the whole shall not be then called for, to be raised and levied off the whole or some particular division or part of such county accordingly, as the same respectively shall be stated in such certificate to be chargeable therewith; and every sum so presented shall be raised and levied accordingly in like manner as other monies presented at the same presenting term or assizes respectively; and every such presentment shall be made without any previous application to presentment sessions; and the money so levied shall be paid over in such manner and to such bank or person as the Treasury shall direct.
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