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Presentment for fuel and light for court houses and sessions houses.
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76. It shall and may be lawful for the grand jury of any county at any assizes, without any previous application to presentment sessions, to present, to be levied off such county, such reasonable sum or sums as they shall think proper for providing fuel or light for each and every or any court house or sessions house in or belonging to such county; provided that no sum so presented shall be paid by the treasurer of such county until the person, to whom any such sum so to be presented for fuel shall be payable under such presentment, shall produce to such treasurer an affidavit, sworn by him before the foreman of the grand jury at the last assizes for such county, stating that the sum required to be paid hath been duly expended in the purchase of fuel for the use of such court house or sessions house pursuant to such presentment, and that the whole of such fuel hath been consumed in the said court house or sessions house and for the use and benefit thereof, or, if any part of such fuel shall not have been consumed, stating how much thereof has been consumed, and that the residue then remains in safe keeping, to be applied to the use of the said court house or sessions house in like manner.
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