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Two justices and three cess-payers associated with them at the last special or presentment sessions may convene a meeting of justices and cess-payers for making an application to the lord lieutenant for the execution of any public works under recited Act.
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3. [Recital of 7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 21. s. 3, authorising justices to convene a special meeting of the justices and cess payers associated with them at the last special or present ment sessions held for the purposes of the Grand Jury (Ireland) Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 116.) in order to present a memorial to the lord lieutenant for the execution of certain works.] It shall and may be lawful for any two justices of the peace (not being stipendiary magistrates) in and for any county, county of a city, or county of a town in Ireland, and any three cess-payers associated with the justices at the then last special or presentmen sessions as aforesaid held in and for the barony, half barony, or place wherein any public work is proposed to be executed under the provisions of the said first recited Act, and this Act, (as far as the same are applicable,) by notice under their hands, to be posted as in the said last-recited provision directed, to convene any such special meeting of the justices and cess-payers for such purposes and subject to such regulations as in the said last-recited provision mentioned; and every such special meeting so convened shall be as valid and effectual for all and every the purposes of the said first-recited Act as if such meeting had been convened in such manner as in the said first-recited Act prescribed; and the several provisions of the said first-recited Act (subject to the variations thereof contained in this Act) shall extend and be applied to any such special meeting, and to the proceedings thereat, the application for the execution of the works, the advance of monies, the repayment on account of the same, and to the several other matters and things relating to any such works annlied for at such meeting.
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