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For Rents of Petty Sessions Rooms; 55.

For Sums to be paid as Consideration for Surrender of Leases; 56. For Fuel for Court Houses; 57.

For Support of Fever Hospitals; 58.

For building or repairing County Fever Hospitals; 59.

For Maintenance of a County Infirmary; 60.

For Salary for a Surgeon to County Infirmary; 61.

For Compensation for Persons maimed, and to Representatives of

Persons murdered; 62.

For Rewards to Prosecutors of Felons; 63.

For Coroners; 64-66.

For Expenses of suing Treasurers and Contractors; 67.

For redeeming Tolls payable on certain Bridges; 68.

For Purchase of Property in Bridges; 69.

For Support of Prisons; 70.

For Superannuation of Keepers, Turnkeys, and Matrons; 71.
For Gallows, &c.; 72.

For Interpreters; 73.

For Maps of Alterations of County Roads; 74.

For printing Schedules of Orders; 75.

For constructing Piers and Quays; 76.

(Vide for insolvent Arrears of County Cess, Sect. 128; and for Compensation for Injuries, Sect. 150, &c.)

Imperative Orders of District Board.

(Vide Order for Damages found on Traverse, Sect. 123, &c.; and for Compensation for Injuries, 150, &c.)

Discretionary Orders of District Board.

For making new Roads; 77.

For Surveys for new Roads; 78.

For lowering Hills, building or repairing Bridges, &c.; 79.

For widening and repairing Roads; Proviso in case of Post Roads, Half the Expense of Repairs off County and Half off District; 80. For Repair of sudden Breaches by Order of County Engineer or District Surveyor; 81.

For Repair of sudden Breaches ordered by Two Justices; 82.

For Contracts for Repair of Roads; 83.

For Repair of Roads by County Engineer in certain Cases; 84.

For Road or Bridge, &c. where Boundary of Two Counties; 85.
For repairing Trackways on Banks of navigable River; 86.

For stopping up old Roads; 87.

For erecting Posts and Milestones; 88.

For Support of Fever Hospitals and Dispensaries; 89.

For Erection of Fever Hospitals; 90.

541.

Mode

Mode of making Orders for Works, and Execution thereof.

Application for Works by Two Cess-payers; 91.

Application to be lodged with Clerk or Secretary; 92.

Maps and Notices in case of new Lines of Road; 93.

Notices to be posted; 94.

District Surveyor to examine Applications to District Board, and to apply for any he may think necessary; 95.

District Board to decide on Application; 96.

Clerk to make a Schedule, and forward to County Board; 97. County Engineer to examine, and to make Application for Works as

he may think necessary; 98.

County Board to decide on Application made; 99.

Secretary to advertise for Tenders; 100.

Tenders to be opened at adjourned Meetings of County Board and
District Boards; in case of no Tender, to give the Work in charge
to the County Engineer or District Surveyor; 101.
Contractors to give Security by Recognizance; 102.

Approved Applications for new Works exceeding 1007. in Cost to be certified by County Board to next Meeting; 103.

Proceedings after the same are so certified; 104.

List of Applications approved of to be laid before Finance Committee; 105.

Imperative Orders to be printed separately; 106.

Secretary of County Board and Clerk of District Board to make out Abstract Book of Contracts made and approved of, and to give Notice to Contractors; 107.

Contractors to pay Labourers in Money; 108.

Duties of Finance Committee, and Applotment and Collection of

County Rates.

Committee to meet at Time and Place to be appointed by County Board; and to make an Estimate and strike a Rate, and apportion same upon Districts and Townlands according to Valuations; 109.

Copies of Rates and Valuations may be taken; 110.

Committee to include Monies omitted to be ordered and certified by the Lord Lieutenant; 111.

Applotment of Rates; 112.

Contracts to be made for Collection of Rate; 113.

Committee to issue Warrant for levy of Rate; 114.

Collectors to pay in Rates monthly, or when 100l. received; 115.

Poundage of Collectors, 116.

Committee to make Rules for Collection, and allow a Discount on

Sums promptly paid in; 117.

County

County Rates to be levied by Distress, &c.; 118.

To be paid by Persons in occupation at the Time of Levy; 119.

Payment of Contractors - Financial Accounts and

Traverses.

Contractors to give Notice of Completion of Work to County Engineer, &c.; Inspection thereof; and Payment; 120.

Payments to be made by Drafts on County Bank; 121.

County Board or District Boards may authorize Advances on Presentments over 40%.; 122.

Traverses of Orders for Payment of Contractors, or of any Order for Execution of Works, or raising Money; 123.

Traverse by Occupiers of Land for Damages; 124.

Contractor not to be paid if Application traversed; 125.

County Boards to have Powers of borrowing for Works; 126.

County Board may allow the Bank Interest on Advances; 127.

Special Annual Meeting of Finance Committee for making up Accounts; 128.

Audit of Finance Committees Accounts; 129.

Miscellaneous Provisions as to Officers, &c.

Certain Officers not to serve on County or District Boards; 130. Appointment, Dismissal, Duties, &c. of County Engineer; 131-135. Secretary of County Board not to be Clerk of Peace, &c.; 136. Penalty for giving Money for Appointment to Offices; 137.

Works, &c. to be executed by Contract; 138.

County Court House built in a City to be Part of County at large; 139.

Old Court Houses may be sold; 140.

Act not to affect certain Powers as to building Bridges; 141.

Act not to affect Powers as to clearing Rivers; 142.

Powers of Grand Juries to present for Advances from Board of Works transferred to County Board; 143.

Board of Works may execute certain Works, or permit County Board to execute them; 144.

Board of Works may exercise Powers of County Surveyors; 145.

All Orders to have reference to the Chapter and Section of Act; 146.

Copies of all Orders to be laid before Parliament; 147.

Application of Sums ordered for Works not executed; 148.
Contractors for Printing; 149.

541.

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Compensation

Compensation for malicious Injuries.

Notice of Injury to be given to Churchwardens; 150.
Applications for, when and where to be made; 151.

Persons injured to lodge Examinations upon Oath before a Justice; 152.
When Order opposed or Application disallowed, a Jury to try the
Matter; 153.

Where Compensation exceeds 1007., Application to be made to County Board; 154.

No Order for Compensation to be removed by Certiorari, or Traverse allowed thereto; 155.

Mode of obtaining Compensation for Injury committed near Boundaries of Counties; 156.

No Fees to be taken on such Applications, &c.; 157.

Trespasses or Nuisances on public Roads, &c.

Persons scouring Ditches on Sides of Roads without Consent, or driving Cattle on Footpaths, &c., convicted before Justices, to pay a Fine not exceeding 20s.; 158.

Engineers, &c. not liable to Penalties for Acts done in the Discharge of their Office; 159.

Penalty for using new Road for a certain Time after making; 160.
Engineers, &c. may require Owners of Land to prune Trees, and
Owners not complying, to be summoned and fined; 161.
Powers of Engineers, Contractors, &c. to dig for Materials; 162.
Materials not to be taken, to the Injury of Road or Building; 163.
Penalty for assaulting Engineer, &c., or injuring Public Work; 164.
Proceedings in case Public Works injured; 165.

Swine wandering on Roads may be impounded, &c.; 166.

Miscellaneous Clauses.

City of Dublin Grand Jury to transact fiscal Business in open Court; 167.

No Stamp Duty upon Contracts, Recognizances, or Collectors Bonds. Proceedings before Assistant Barrister; 168.

Forfeitures to be levied by Distress, &c.; 169.

Party distraining not to be a Trespasser for Irregularity; 170.
General Issue may be pleaded; 171.

Money not to be taken for Affidavits. False Swearing punishable as
Perjury; 172.

Weights and Measures; 173.

Powers and Duties of Inspectors of Weights and Measures transferred to Constabulary Force; 174.

Charge for deserted Children transferred to Guardians of the Poor; 175. Certain Counties may be divided into Two Ridings; 176.

Lord Lieutenant to make Regulations as to Venue, &c. in such Cases; 177.

Lord

Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council may annex Islands belonging to one County to another more contiguous County, and detached Parts of Counties or Baronies; 178.

What such Order of Lord Lieutenant in Council shall contain; 179. Supplemental Order thereupon; 180.

No Order to be made for Payment to Consolidated Fund unless Money demanded within Five Years; 181.

Expenses of repairing Road from Dublin to Blackrock, how to be raised; 182.

Upon Neglect of Grand Jury, &c. to repair, Board of Works to execute Repair, and recover Cost; 183.

Parties repairing such Road to furnish Accounts to Grand Jury of Dublin, &c.; 184.

Road from Dublin to Howth vested in Trustees; 185.

Portion of such Road to be repaired by Grand Jury of Dublin; 186. Roads and Bridges heretofore maintained by Board of Public Works vested in County Board; 187.

Expense of Bridges in Two Counties borne equally; 188.

Board of Public Works in certain Cases may repair such Roads and Bridges; 189.

How Expense of such Repairs to be repaid; 190.

Expense of Repairs of Bridges in Two Counties borne equally; 191. County Board to make Orders for Repair of Harbours, Piers, and Quays, &c.; 193.

Contracts for Repairs of the same; 194.

County Board to appoint Harbour Constable at a Salary; 195.

Application of Penalties as to Piers, Harbours, &c.; 196.

Board of Public Works may repair Harbours, Piers, &c. in certain Cases; 197.

Mode of Repayment on Money expended on such Repair; 198.

Repeal of 10 & 11 Vict. c. 75. as to first Repairs of Piers, Harbours, &c.; 199.

Board of Works to certify Expense of Repair; Repayment by County Board; 200.

Schedules to be Part of Act; 201.

Explanation of Terms; 202.

Commencement of Act; 203.

Act to extend only to Ireland, and not to the City of Dublin, unless specially named; 204.

Act may be amended, &c.; 205.

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