On Production of such Cer

tificate to the County Treasurer he shall

give a Draft for

may, on the Completion of the Work for which he may have contracted, if completed within the present Year, give Notice thereof by Post, addressed to the County Surveyor at his Office, who shall, either by himself or his Assistants, within Fifteen Days from the Receipt of such Notice, examine the Work so represented to be completed, and in case he shall be fully satisfied of the due Execution of such Work, but not otherwise, shall grant his Certificate of Approval thereof to such Contractor, which Certificate shall set forth the Amount to be paid, and the Description or Number of the Contract on account of which Payment is to be made.

XVII. And be it enacted, That the Treasurer of such County shall thereupon, upon the Production to him of such Certificate, give to the Person entitled to such Payment a Draft for the Amount thereof, which Draft shall contain a Specification of the Purposes for which the same shall have been drawn, and of the Person to whom it is payable, and when so signed it shall be the Authority for the Bankers in whose Bank the County Funds may be deposited to pay the Amount thereof, any thing in an Act of the First and Second Years of Her present Majesty's 1 & 2 Vict. c. 53. Reign, intituled An Act to amend an Act of the last Session of

the Amount thereof.

Presentment for
Printing, &c.

Advances from

Treasury to be repaid by compulsory Presentment.

Parliament, for providing more effectual Means to make Treasurers of Counties and Counties of Cities in Ireland account for public Monies, and to secure the same, to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding; and such Draft shall be as valid to all Intents and Purposes as any Draft for the Payment of any Money given under the said last-mentioned Act; provided that after the Expiration of this Year the Contractors for any such Works shall make Application for and receive Payment, subject to the Provisions and Regulations of the Acts relating to the Presentment of public Monies by Grand Juries in Ireland.

XVIII. And be it enacted, That the Treasurer of every County, County of a City, or County of a Town in which this Act shall come into operation shall include in his Account, to be furnished to the respective Grand Jury at the next Summer Assizes, the Cost of all Copying, Printing, and other Proceedings of a like Nature required under the Provisions of this Act, who shall, at such next Summer Assizes, and they are hereby required to present, to be levied off the County at large, such Sum as shall be necessary to defray the same, and shall also present, to be levied off the County at large, to be paid to the Secretary of the Grand Jury, and to the County Surveyor or his Assistants, such Sums of Money as shall be actually incurred by them respectively for their Expences out of Pocket in or in respect of their respective Attendance at any such Extraordinary Presentment Sessions as herein provided.

XIX. And be it enacted, That the Monies so from Time to Time to be advanced, pursuant to the Provisions of this Act, by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, for the Execution of any such Public Works in any County, County of a City, or County of a Town, or City and County, shall be repaid by Grand Jury Presentments at such Time or Times and in such Manner and with such Interest (not exceeding the Rate aforesaid) as the said Commissioners of the Treasury shall appoint and direct; and

the

the said Commissioners shall from Time to Time cause to be certified to the Secretary of the Grand Jury of each such County, County of a City, and County of a Town the Money so to be repaid; and each such Secretary shall lay such Certificate before the Grand Jury of such County, County of a City, or County of a Town at the next Assizes or Presenting Term after he shall receive the same; and it shall be lawful for every such Grand Jury and they are hereby required to present the Sum mentioned in every such Certificate to be raised either off the County at large or off the respective Baronies or Half Baronies in respect whereof the Works for which any such Monies shall be so advanced by the said Commissioners shall have been presented by the Extraordinary County Presentment Sessions as herein-before directed, or off the County of the City or County of the Town, as the Case may be; and the Treasurer of such County, County of a City, or County of a Town shall pay the Sum so presented when and as by him received to such Bank or Person, and to such Account or in such Manner, as the said Commissioners of the Treasury shall direct: Provided always, that if the Grand Jury of any County, In case the County of a City, or County of a Town shall fail to present the Grand Jury Sum or any Part thereof contained in any such Certificate, the fail to present. Treasurer of such County, County of a City, or County of a Town shall and he is hereby required to insert such Sum or such omitted Part thereof in his Warrant for raising the Monies presented at the same Assizes as if such Sum had been duly presented by such Grand Jury to be raised off the County at large, or County of a City or County of a Town, as the Case may be, and the same shall be raised and levied off such County, County of a City, or County of a Town accordingly as if the same had been so presented, and the said Treasurer shall pay over the Amount when by him received as herein-before provided in the Case of such Money being presented; and all the Provisions of the said recited Act of the Sixth and Seventh Years of His late Majesty King William the Fourth with reference to the raising, Applotment, Collection, Levy, or Recovery of Grand Jury Cess shall, as far as the same are applicable, apply to all such Sums of Money so inserted in such Warrant: Provided also, that in all Cases in Treasurer to which any of such Monies shall have been advanced by the said pay into Bank Commissioners for or on account of any Works for which Present- all Advances ment shall have been theretofore made by a Grand Jury, the Trea- received from surer of the respective County, County of a City, or County of a Town shall from Time to Time pay to such Bank or Person as the said Commissioners shall direct all such Sums as shall from Time to Time be received by him from the Baronial or other Collectors by virtue of the Presentment on account of which such Money shall have been advanced, until the whole Sum so advanced shall be repaid.

Collectors.

Money and not

XX. And be it enacted, That every Contractor for the Execu- Contractors tion of any County Work shall pay his Labourers or Artificers in shall pay LaMoney, and at Intervals of not more than Fourteen Days; and bourers in if any Contractor shall directly or indirectly attempt to persuade in Goods, and or induce any Labourer in the Employment of such Contractor to at Intervals of take Goods in lieu of such Wages, or to expend his Wages in not more than any particular Shop, or for any particular Purpose, he shall be Fourteen Days. C 3

liable

Grand Jury to exercise Powers herein given, after Commis

sion is opened.

If the Spring
Assizes shall be

concluded

before the pass

ing of this Act,

or before due Notice of it, Grand Juries may be reassembled.

liable to be summoned before the Justices assembled at any Petty Sessions on Complaint of the Party aggrieved, or any other Person, and such Justices are hereby authorized to hear such Complaint, and adjudicate thereon; and if such Contractor shall be convicted thereof he shall forfeit and pay such Sum not exceeding Five Pounds as to such Justices shall seem fit; and if any Contractor shall neglect to pay any Labourer in his Employment, at Intervals of not more than Fourteen Days, all Wages that may be due to him, save and except the Wages of One whole Week, he shall be liable to be summoned before the Justices assembled at any Petty Sessions, on Complaint of the Party aggrieved, for Recovery of any Wages or Money payable to any Person employed by him in the Execution of such Works, so as the Sum demanded shall not exceed Six Pounds, and such Justices assembled as aforesaid are hereby authorized and required to hear such Complaint, and adjudicate thereon and it shall be no Defence to such Complaint that such Contractor has not himself received any Payment on Foot of his Contract, and the Decision of such Justices shall be final; and the Sum adjudged to be due shall be levied by Warrant of Distress, under Hand and Seal of any Two such Justices, off the Goods and Chattels of such Contractor.

XXI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for each Grand Jury at such Spring Assizes to exercise the Powers given to them by this Act after and notwithstanding that Her Majesty's Commission at such Assizes shall have been opened, any thing in the said Act passed in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, or any Act or Acts notwithstanding.

XXII. And be it enacted, That in any and every Case in which it shall happen that the Spring Assizes in and for any such County, County of a City, or County of a Town shall have been concluded, or that the Grand Jury at such Assizes respectively shall have been discharged before the passing of this Act, or before any such Grand Jury shall have received sufficient Notice of the passing of the same, it shall and may be lawful for the Sheriff of such County, County of a City, or County of a Town, and such Sheriff is hereby authorized and required, in case he shall receive a Direction by Warrant, to be issued from Time to Time as may be necessary, under the Hand of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, so to do, to summon the several and respective Persons who shall have served as Grand Jurors upon the Grand Jury at such Spring Assizes of the present Year for such County, County of a City, or County of a Town to re-assemble and attend for the Purposes of this Act at the usual Place of holding Assizes upon a Day by such Sheriff to be fixed, not later than Ten Days from the Day on which such Sheriff shall have received such Warrant as aforesaid; and such Persons so summoned are hereby required to come and appear agreeably to the Exigency of such Summons, under the like Penalties and subject to the like Forfeiture of Issues as Persons heretofore summoned to appear and serve on Grand Juries at any Assizes in Ireland; and on the Day and at the Place appointed for such Attendance such Sheriff shall attend and proceed to call such Grand Jurors, and the Clerk of the Crown or his Deputy shall

attend

attend at such Time and Place, and take a List of all such Grand Jurors so attending; but in case Twelve such Grand Jurors should not be so in attendance it shall be lawful for such Sheriff to call and summon to be associated with such Grand Jurors attending such Number of other Persons whose Attendance can be procured, and whose Names shall have been on the Grand Jury Panel for such Spring Assizes, as will be sufficient with such first-named Grand Jurors attending to make up a Number not less than Twelve and not exceeding Twenty-three; and such Grand Jurors so attending, not being less than Twelve in Number, er, as the Case may be, such Grand Jurors so attending together with such other Persons associated with them, shall have all the Powers and Authorities hereby given to the respective Grand Juries at the Spring Assizes of this Year for appointing any such Extraordinary Presentment Sessions as herein provided; and it shall be lawful for them, if they shall respectively so think fit, Twelve of them at the least assenting, by a Presentment, to appoint such Extraordinary Presentment Sessions respectively, and the Times and Places for holding the same, and the several Matters relating to the same, as herein-before provided; and any such Extraordinary Presentment Sessions so appointed shall be as valid, and have all such Powers and Authorities, and be subject to such Provisions, as if the same had been appointed by the Grand Jury at such Spring Assizes under the Provisions of this Act hereinbefore contained; provided that the Time to be so appointed for holding the First Extraordinary Baronial Presentment Sessions in each County, County of a City, or County of a Town shall not be later than Thirty Days from the Days so fixed for the respective Grand Juries to re-assemble.

sentment Ses

sions.

XXIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That in the Case of In Counties of any County of a City or County of a Town the Extraordinary Cities or Towns Presentment Sessions to be held for the same respectively under the First Extrathe Provisions of this Act shall in addition to the other Powers ordinary Preand Authorities hereby given to any Extraordinary Baronial sions to have Presentment Sessions, have and exercise at their first Meeting all the Powers the Powers and Authorities hereby given to any Extraordinary herein given to County Presentment Sessions; and no such Extraordinary County Extraordinary Presentment Sessions shall be held for any such County of a City County Sesor County of a Town under this Act, save such respective Extraordinary Presentment Sessions for such County of a City or County of a Town in this Provision and before mentioned, and the Adjournment thereof respectively as herein-before directed; and in the Construction of this Act, unless the Context or the Interpretation Nature of the Case shall exclude such Construction, the Expression of Act. "Extraordinary Baronial Presentment Sessions," or "Baronial Sessions," shall, in the Case of a County of a City or County of a Town, mean and include such Extraordinary Presentment Sessions for such County of a City or County of a Town respectively, or the Adjournment thereof, hereby provided; and the Word "Treasurer shall, as to the County of Dublin, mean and include the Finance Committee; and the Words "Assizes" or "Spring Assizes" shall, as to the said County of Dublin, mean and include the " Presenting Term."

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XXIV. And

County Surveyors to assist

in Works di.

rected by the Lord Lieu

tenant.

Aet may be

amended, &c.

XXIV. And whereas it may become necessary and expedient 'to provide further Employment for the labouring Poor of Ireland during the approaching Summer and Autumn, by the Execution ' of Works other than those presented for by the respective Grand Juries of the Counties wherein such further Works shall be required; and in order to assist in and facilitate the due Execution thereof it is desirable that the several County Surveyors and their Assistants, within their respective Counties, 'should superintend such Works, either wholly or in part, and subject to such Orders and Directions as may from Time to Time be issued to them by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief ⚫ Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, or by the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland; be it therefore enacted, That the several County Surveyors in Ireland, and their Assistants, do and shall at all Times, from and after the passing of this Act and until the Thirty-first Day of December next, or until the respective Works in this Provision mentioned shall be completed, in addition to all their other Duties, obey, perform, and execute either alone or conjointly with or subject to the Direction of any other Person or Persons to be appointed for that Purpose by the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, all such Orders and Directions as the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, for the Time being, or the Commissioners of Public Works, shall from Time to Time issue and transmit to them or any of them respecting the planning, laying out, superintending, or overseeing any such Work or Works within their respective Counties as shall be specified in and by such Orders or Directions, or the disbursing any such Sum or Sums of Money which shall be placed at his or their Disposal for that Purpose, whether such Works shall be of a public or private Nature, and do and shall from Time to Time, and as often as he or they shall be so required, report to the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, or to the said Commissioners of Public Works, how and in what Manner he or they shall have executed such Orders and Directions, and disbursed such Sum or Sums of Money so to be issued and transmitted to him or them as aforesaid.

XXV. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament.

CA P. III.

An Act to encourage the Sea Fisheries of Ireland, by promoting and aiding with Grants of public Money the Construction of Piers, Harbours, and other Works.

[5th March 1846.]

WHEREAS it is necessary, for the Encouragement and

Promotion of the Deep Sea Fisheries of Ireland as a Source of Employment and Food, to provide Funds, partly by way of Grant, and partly by way of Loan, for the Construction or Repair of small Harbours, Piers, Quays, and Landing Places,

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