St. Mary's Parish Act 1777

1-3d of expences applotted at vestry on the parishioners by minister’s money,

2-3ds and further expences on the counties by respective grand juries.

III. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That one third part of the charges of this act, and the expences attending the passing the same into a law, shall at a vestry, to be held on or before the first day of November after passing the same, be applotted, and afterwards shall be levied off the several inhabitants of said parish of Saint Mary’s, rateably and in proportion to the minister’s money payable by them respectively, with like remedy for default in payment thereof as is by law allowed for enforcing payment of said minister’s money; and that the remaining two thirds of the charges and expences of passing this act, shall at the term next after passing the same be presented, one moiety thereof by the grand jury of the county of the city of Dublin, and the other moiety thereof by the grand jury of the county of Dublin, to be raised off the inhabitants of each county respectively, as other grand jury cesses usually are; and that all such sums of money, as may afterwards be necessary for defraying the expences attending the said proceedings in said high court of chancery, and upon said commission or commissions respecting the boundaries of said counties, shall and may be presented to be raised in like manner by the respective grand juries of said county of the city of Dublin and county of Dublin.