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Schedule of Applications to be lodged with Clerk of Crown and Clerk of the Peace.
Presentments made by Town Council may be traversed.
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XLIII. And be it enacted, That a Schedule of such Applications as may be agreed to with respect to the said Grand, Jury Cess shall be made out by the Town Clerk, who shall lodge the same, Two clear Days before the First Day of Hilary Term in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and Two clear Days before the First Day of Michaelmas Term in Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and Two clear Days before the First Day of Michaelmas Term in every succeeding Year, with the Clerk of the Crown of the Court of Queen’s Bench; and a Schedule of such Applications as may be agreed to with respect to the said Sessions Grand Jury Cess shall be made by the said Town Clerk, who shall lodge the same, Two clear Days before the First Day of the January Quarter Sessions of the Peace held for the City of Dublin in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and Two clear Days before the First Day of the October Quarter Sessions of the Peace held for the City of Dublin in the said Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and Two clear Days before the First Day of the October Quarter Sessions in every succeeding Year, with the Clerk of the Peace for the City of Dublin; and thereupon it shall be lawful for the said Court of Queen’s Bench, or any Judge of the said Court, and the Recorder of the City of Dublin respectively, to fix Days for the Consideration of the said Presentments, and on such Days at least Twenty Members of the said Council shall attend the said Court or Judge or Recorder respectively, and the said Court or Judge or Recorder respectively, after hearing all Parties affected by or interested in such Presentments, shall make such Orders therein, and shall allow or disallow the same or any of them, or any Portions thereof, as to the said Court or Judge or Recorder respectively shall seem fit, and shall fiat the same or any Portions thereof, according as the same shall be allowed, either by the full Court or by One of the Judges thereof or the Recorder respectively: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for any Rate-payer to traverse any Presentment made by the said Council, or to object to the same being fiated, and such Traverse or Objection shall be heard and determined by the said Court or Judge or Recorder respectively on a Day to be fixed for considering and fiating the same; and it shall be lawful for the said Court of Queen’s Bench and Recorder respectively to make Orders from Time to Time to regulate the Reception of the said Traverses, and the Mode of Procedure thereupon, and to order Juries to be impannelled for the Trial thereof, as they are now in such Cases authorized: Provided also, that in case Twenty Members of the said Council shall not attend the said Court or Judge or Recorder respectively as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the said Court or Judge or Recorder to proceed to hear and determine such Matters as shall be brought before such Court or Judge or Recorder respectively in like Manner as if such Twenty Members were then present, and the said Court or Judge or Recorder shall have Power to inflict such Penalty on the Council, not exceeding Ten Pounds, for Nonattendance, as such Court or Judge or Recorder respectively shall think fit.
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