sions; Schedule for each Barony of all such Applications for Works before the Exproposed to be levied upon each such Barony, arranging all such traordinary Applications in alphabetical Order, and noting on the Face of County Seseach Schedule the Particulars of the Decision of the Extraordinary Baronial Presentment Sessions on each Application; and such Secretary shall forthwith cause Copies of such Schedules to be printed and distributed in such Manner as shall have been autho rized and directed by such Grand Jury Presentment as herein provided; and the said Secretary shall on the Day when the Extraordinary County Presentment Sessions shall be assembled, as herein directed deliver One Copy of the said printed Schedules, together with the several printed Applications, with any Specifications, Maps, Plans, Sections, or Elevations of the Works to which such Application shall relate, which shall have been prepared by the County Surveyor, annexed thereto, to the Chairman of such Sessions; and the said Secretary shall keep another and also keep a Copy of the said Schedules in his Office for the Inspection of Copy in his the Public during Three complete Days at least immediately be- Office for Inbefore the Day when such Sessions shall be first assembled. spection. VIII. And be it enacted, That the Justices and Cess-payers Such Extraat such Extraordinary County Presentment Sessions shall at the ordinary Time appointed proceed to transact all Business relating to County Sessions Public Works and Contracts within the County, and to consider shall consider and decide upon all Applications which shall be made for Works, and make or Applications, as herein-before provided, in the Order in which the same shall refuse Presentbe entered in the Schedules to be prepared as aforesaid, where ment thereupon, they may deem it necessary, lessening the Amount or altering and Time for fixing Amount the Time for executing each Work, and examining all Maps, Execution of Plans, Estimates, and Specifications relating to each Application; Works. and the said County Sessions shall be attended by the Secretary of the Grand Jury, and by the County Surveyor or Surveyors, and shall hear and receive and direct to be read aloud in open Court the several Reports and Certificates of such Surveyor or Surveyors, and shall have Power and Authority at their Discretion to receive and obtain all legal and pertinent Evidence which shall be tendered to them for or against the making any Presentment, or in anywise relating thereto, or concerning any Public Work authorized to be executed under this Act, or any Contract for or in respect of any of the Matters aforesaid; and such Extraordinary County Presentment Sessions are hereby authorized and empowered, if they shall think fit, to make Presentments for all or any of the Works, and the Expence thereof, hereby authorized to be applied for, and for which an Application shall have been made and approved, either wholly or in part, at the Extraordinary Baronial Presentment Sessions as herein-before provided, and specifying in all such Presentments the maximum Amount which shall be raised for the Execution of any such Work, and the Barony off which such Amount is to be raised; and the said County Presentment Sessions shall sit de die in diem until all the Business which may come before them of the Nature hereby described be despatched; and every such Presentment so made by such County Sessions shall be as valid and effectual for the Purposes of this Act as if the same had been duly presented by the Grand Jury, and fiated by the Court at any Assizes. IX. And Secretary of the Grand Jury to advertise his readiness to receive Tenders and Proposals for the Execution of such Works, and that Tenders may be had at his Office. Forms of such Tenders to be delivered in sealed, or in Envelopes. At the ad journed Extra- IX. And be it enacted, That the Secretary of the Grand Jury shall immediately after the Conclusion of such County Presentment Sessions, upon being furnished by the County Surveyor with the Specification or Form of Tender for the Execution of any such Work as aforesaid, and the Maps, Plans, Sections, and Elevations belonging thereto, notify, by public Advertisement or otherwise, in the usual Manner as such County Sessions shall have directed, his Readiness to receive sealed Tenders and Proposals for the Execution of such Work during such Period as shall have been appointed for the Reception of the same, and the Time to which the Extraordinary Baronial Presentment Sessions respectively has adjourned for the opening of such Tenders and Proposals, and that Forms thereof may be obtained at his Office or elsewhere; and such Secretary shall accordingly cause to be printed and prepared a sufficient Number of Forms of such Tenders and Proposals, and furnish to any Person who shall demand the same a Copy thereof, receiving therefor the reasonable Cost of preparing the same, not exceeding the Sum of Three-pence, and also take such other Means as such County Presentment Sessions shall direct for placing such Forms within reach of Persons who may have Occasion to use them; and each of such Tenders and Proposals shall be returned to him sealed, or in an Envelope, and shall contain a Statement of the lowest Sum for which the Party making such Proposal is willing to contract for the Performance of the Work or Works specified and described in such Notification, and shall be subscribed with the Name, Decription, and Residence of the Party so desirous to enter into such Contract, and also the Names, Descriptions, and Residences of not less than Two sufficient Persons willing to be bound jointly and severally with him for the due and faithful Performance of the said Contract, within the Time and in the Mannert hereby prescribed, in a penal Sum double the Amount of the said Sum mentioned in such Tenders and Proposals if the said Sum shall not exceed One thousand Pounds, but if such Sum shall exceed One thousand Pounds then in a penal Sum exceeding the Sum mentioned in such Tenders and Proposals by One thousand Pounds in addition thereto; and all Maps, Plans, Sections, and Specifications relating to any such Work prepared by the County Surveyor shall be open to public Inspection in the Office of such Secretary without Fee or Reward. X. And be it enacted, That at the Meeting of each such adjourned Extraordinary Baronial Presentment Sessions as aforesaid the Secretary of the Grand Jury shall in open Court produce, duly numbered and arranged, and with the Seals unbroken, all the Tenders and Proposals which may have been delivered to him, and shall open consecutively all those relating to the same Public Work; and so soon as the lowest Proposal made for the Performance of each such Work shall be ascertained, the Party making such Proposal and his Surety shall be called, and if the said Party and his Sureties shall appear, and shall satisfy the Justices and Cess-payers at such Baronial Sessions, upon Oath or otherwise, of the Sufficiency and Ability of each and every of them to answer and make good the Penalty herein-before specified for the Nonperformance of such Contract, and that such Proposal has not been made for any unfair or fraudulent Purpose, and shall thereupon thereupon enter into Security for the due Performance of such Contract, conditioned in such Penalty as aforesaid, in the Manner and subject to the Provisions in the said recited Act of the Sixth and Seventh Years of King William the Fourth directed and contained, such Proposal shall be accepted, and the Party making the same shall be declared entitled to execute the Work to which such Proposal may refer, unless there shall appear some Reason for rejecting it; but if the Party making such Proposal, and his Sureties, shall not appear when called, or shall fail to satisfy the Justices and Cess-payers at such Sessions in any of the Particulars aforesaid, or shall decline to enter into such Security as aforesaid, or if such Presentment Sessions shall see Cause to reject it, then and in such Case the Proposal of the Party making default as aforesaid shall be deemed null and void to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, and the next lowest Proposal shall be ascertained and dealt with in the same Manner, and so on till the said Security shall be entered into, and the Contract duly completed: Provided If no Tender always, that if no Proposal shall be made in respect of any Work or Proposal within the Time limited for receiving such Proposals, or if no approved of, Work may be Proposal or Tender shall be approved of by such Presentment given in charge Sessions, it shall and may be lawful for the said Presentment Sesto County Sursions, if they think proper, to give such Work in charge to the veyor. County Surveyor, with Power to expend a Sum not exceeding the Maximum fixed as aforesaid; and such County Surveyor shall cause such Work to be executed, and shall account for the Execution thereof to the Grand Jury at the following Assizes. XL And be it enacted, That such Security so to be entered into Form of by Contractors under this Act, and their Sureties, shall be a Security. Recognizance to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and of like Force, Validity, and Effect as other Recognizances made to the Queen's Majesty; and at such adjourned Baronial Present ment Sessions any Justices present, or the Chairman, are and is hereby authorized to take such Recognizance, and the Secretary of the Grand Jury shall prepare the same, and come provided therewith, so as to prevent Delay; and the Expence of preparing the same, not exceeding Sixpence, shall be defrayed by the Party or Parties entering thereinto; and such Recognizance shall be preserved in custody of such Secretary until the Condition of such Recognizance shall have been fulfilled, and shall then be delivered up to the Contractor or Contractors therein named, or to any Person by him or them duly authorized, to be cancelled. Secretary of the ticulars of Con- XII. And be it enacted, That the Secretary of the Grand Jury shall have charge of all such Contracts as aforesaid, and shall provide and keep a Book in which he shall insert an Abstract of all such Contracts, setting out the Names of the several Contractors, and the Particulars of each Contract; and all Contracts so entered in such Book shall be numbered; and every such Book shall have an alphabetical Index referring to the Number of each dules, &c. Contract; and such Secretary of the Grand Jury shall, as soon as may be afterwards, prepare Schedules of all Applications so contracted for, approved of, and presented for as aforesaid, and cause the same to be printed and distributed in the same Manner as he is by the said recited Act of the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of King William the Fourth required to do with 9 & 10 VICT, C respect Powers of former Acts applied. Forms. Treasury.may make Advances by way of Loan in respect of Works approved of. Monies ad.. vanced to be paid to the Treasurer of the County, &c., who shall account for the same. respect to Applications approved of at Presentment Sessions, and shall immediately thereafter deliver all such Applications so presented for to the Clerk of the Crown for the County, County of the City or County of the Town to which they shall relate, who shall preserve the same, and within Seven Days after such Delivery deliver to the Treasurer of such County, County of a City, or County of a Town, without Fee or Reward, a Copy thereof, attested upon Oath, and signed by himself; and such Treasurer shall return the same to the Foreman of the Grand Jury at the Time when they shall be first impannelled at the ensuing Summer Assizes; and all and every the Powers, Authorities, or Provisions given or contained in the said recited Acts in relation to Works or the Execution of the same, and the raising and levying the Expence of the same, shall, as far as the same are applicable, and not inconsistent with this Act, extend and be applied in relation to the Works to be executed under this Act, or to the raising or levying Money for the Payment of the Expence of the same; and the several Forms in the Schedule to the said first-recited Act contained shall be used and applied, or altered and made applicable as Occasion may require, in or in relation to the several Proceedings under this Act. XIII. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, on Application to them in that Behalf, to make Advances, not exceeding in the whole the Sum of One hundred thousand Pounds, by way of Loan, at such Rate of Interest, not exceeding the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum per Annum, as they shall think fit, out of the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, arising in Ireland, to defray the Expence of any Public Work or Works the Execution of which shall have been approved of and presented under the Provisions herein in that Behalf contained, or of any Work presented for by a Grand Jury under the Provisions of any Acts relating to the Presentment of public Money by Grand Juries in Ireland, save any Gaol, Court House, Hospital, Infirmary, or Bridge, the Cost of which Bridge shall exceed Fifty Pounds; and that when and so soon as any Application for such Works as aforesaid shall have been duly certified to the said Commissioners of the Treasury by the acting Clerk of the Crown to have been duly approved of, and presented according to the Provisions of any of the said last-mentioned Acts or of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners from Time to Time to make, upon the Credit of such Application so approved of and presented as aforesaid, any Advance they may think fit; and that any such Money advanced under the Authority of this Act shall be delivered or paid by such Officer or Person and in such Manner as the said Commissioners shall think fit, and by such Instalments as may be necessary, to the Treasurer of the County, County of a City, or County of a Town in which the Works in respect of which such Advances shall be made shall have been or are intended to be executed, and shall be accounted for by him in like Manner as any other Monies by him received for the Use of such County, County of a City, or County of a Town, and all Securities given or to be given by him or on his Behalf shall extend to such Money; Money; and every such Treasurer shall also from Time to Time, and at all Times when thereunto required by the said Commis. sioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, furnish to the said Commissioners, as they may direct, an Account of all his Disbursements and Receipts in respect of such Advances. Treasurer of the nish a List of all XIV. And be it enacted, That the Treasurer of each County, County of a City, or County of a Town shall deliver to the Chairman of such Extraordinary County Presentment Sessions, or Extraordinary Presentment Sessions, on the assembling thereof, a and of all unList, signed by himself, of all Presentments made at the then last discharged Assizes for such County, County of a City, or County of a Town, Queries. and of all Queries remaining undischarged in respect of Grand Jury Presentments for such County, County of a City, or County of a Town, and the Amount of the County Funds then in his Hands, or invested in Exchequer Bills for or on behalf of the said County; and the Secretary of each Grand Jury shall deliver Secretary of the to such Chairman a List, signed by himself, of all Contracts there- Grand Jury to tofore entered into by such Grand Jury, on Foot of which any furnish a List Sums shall appear to be due, setting out the Names of the several of all Contracts, Contractors, the Particulars of each Contract, and in the Case of ticulars thereof. Roads the Places whence and to which each Road contracted for leads, and where each Road under Charge of a Contractor commences and ends, or the Names of the Occupiers of the adjoining Lands, and the Number of Perches of Road included in such Contract, and the Rate per Perch and the whole annual Sum which each Contractor is to be paid, and the Period for which each Contract is made. and the Par tractors in cer XV. And be it enacted, That in Cases where the Cost of Advances may executing any public Work shall exceed Twenty Pounds it shall be made to Conand may be lawful for the Justices, or Justice and Cess-payers, tain Cases, not at any such Extraordinary County Presentment Sessions, or, in exceeding Three the Case of a County of a City or County of a Town, at the Fourths of the Meeting of the Extraordinary Presentment Sessions, to authorize Cost of the the Treasurer of the County, County of the City, or County of Work. a Town, out of any Funds applicable to the Purpose, to advance from Time to Time during the Execution of the Work to the County Surveyor to whom any Work shall be given in charge as aforesaid, or to the Contractor for any such County Work applied for and presented under this Act, or presented under any other Act for the Regulation of Grand Jury Presentments in Ireland, upon his Application, any Sum or Sums not exceeding in the whole Three Fourths of the Cost of such Work; provided that no such Advances shall be made by such Treasurer unless such Application shall be accompanied by a Certificate attached thereto, and signed by the County Surveyor, that more than the Sum applied for by such Contractor, in addition to any previous Advances made to him for such Work, has been fairly and honestly expended upon it conformably to the Contract. procure Certificate from County Sur XVI. And be it enacted, That any Person who may have Contractors to contracted for the Execution of any Work under this Act, or under the said recited Act of the Sixth and Seventh Years of King William the Fourth, or any Act amending the same, save veyor of the in the Case of any Gaol, Court House, Hospital, Infirmary, or Completion of any Bridge, the Cost of which Bridge shall exceed Fifty Pounds, the Work. C 2 may, |