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Power to Treasury to advance Money during first Two Years for Expenditure of Trustees.
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XXVI. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of the Treasury at any Time, and from Time to Time, within the first Two Years after the passing of this Act, if they think fit, upon an Estimate being laid before them by the Trustees of any of the said Navigations of what Sum will be requisite for the Expenses of such Navigation for the then current Year, to direct that any Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Five hundred Pounds in any One Year for any one of the said Navigations, shall be advanced and paid to such Trustees out of the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to be applied, under the Direction of the said Trustees, in the necessary Maintenance and Repair of such Navigation and in the Payment of the Officers and Servants of such Trustees under this Act; and the said Commissioners of the Treasury shall certify from Time to Time to the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland the Sums so advanced, with a view to the Repayment thereof as herein-after provided.
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