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Treasury may advance Money to the Commissioners to meet preliminary Expences.
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XV. And be it enacted, That with a view to expedite the Proceedings preliminary to the Execution of any of the Works under this Act it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, on the Application of the Commissioners of Public Works, to direct that any Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Five thousand Pounds in any One Year, required for the Purposes of any such preliminary Investigation and Proceedings as aforesaid by the said last-mentioned Commissioners, shall be advanced and paid to them out of the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and applied by the said Commissioners in making the necessary Survey, Inspection, and Investigation, and in taking all other Proceedings preliminary to making any Loan or Advance under this Act; and all and every Sum or Sums of Money so to be advanced and paid out of the Consolidated Fund as aforesaid shall be repaid to the Consolidated Fund by the Commissioners of Public Works on behalf of the Party on whose Account or at whose Instance such Expences may have been incurred, either out of the first or other Monies advanced for the Purpose of executing the Works the Subject of such preliminary Inquiry, and to be for that Purpose retained by the Paymaster of Civil Services in Ireland out of the Monies so advanced, and to be by the said Paymaster of Civil Services paid over to the said Commissioners, on their Certificate, to be made for that Purpose; or (in case where the Execution of the necessary Works shall not be proceeded with, either in consequence of the said last-mentioned Commissioners not approving of the same, or from any other Cause,) such Sum or Sums of Money shall be repaid out of the Monies to be paid to the said last-mentioned Commissioners by the Party or Person who shall have made Application for the Execution of any such Works, and to be recovered by the said last-mentioned Commissioners under the Security herein-before by this Act authorized to be taken for this Purpose.
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