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A moiety of the money so advanced shall be raised by grand jury presentment off the county at large or off the barony, &c. in which the work has been executed, or as the grand jury may determine.
If grand jury shall not present, the money shall be raised, without any presentment, off the county at large.
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8. A moiety of the monies so from time to time advanced for the execution of public works in any county, pursuant to the application of the justices and cess payers assembled at special sessions as aforesaid, shall be repaid by grand jury presentment at such time and in such manner, and with such interest, as the Treasury shall appoint and direct; and the said commissioners acting under and in execution of the said Acts shall from time to time, as they may be directed by the Treasury, certify to the secretary of the grand jury of each such county the money so to be repaid; and each such secretary shall lay such certificate before the grand jury of such county at the next assizes after he shall receive the same; and it shall be lawful for 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 barony or half barony or other division in which the work to which such certificate may relate shall have been executed, as they may think fit; and the treasurer of such county shall pay the sum so presented, when and as by him received, to such bank or person as the Treasury shall direct, to be by them carried to the same account as other monies received in payment of loans under the said Acts: Provided always, that if the grand jury of any county shall fail to present the sum mentioned in any such certificate, the treasurer of such county shall and he is hereby required to insert such sum in his warrant for raising the monies presented at the same assizes, as if such sum had been presented by such grand jury to be raised off the county at large, and the same shall be raised and levied off such county 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.
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