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Recital of said act.
the grand jury at every summer assizes shall have like powers as the grand juries at spring assizes have by said act.
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III. And whereas by said act, the grand jury of each county, county of a town or city are required at, or immediately after each spring assizes held therein, in each year, to order and direct returns to be made weekly, of the quantities and prices of wheat, rye, bere, barley, oats, peas, and beans from such and so many market towns as they shall think proper, in their counties respectively, where a regular weekly corn market is held by ring of bell, and a magistrate, or other person properly authorized attends, and also to direct and appoint a proper person, being an inhabitant of such market town, town, or city, to make such returns to the person appointed in manner therein directed, to receive the same: be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the grand jury of each county, county of a town or city, at every summer assizes held therein in each year, shall have the like powers as the grand juries of the several counties, counties of cities, and counties of towns have at spring assizes by virtue of said act.
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