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Supplementary provisions as to presentments.
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15. The Commissioners of Public Works shall, from time to time, for the purpose of enforcing any presentment made by the baronial presentment sessions of any barony charging the barony with any sum according to the provisions of this Act, make out, before each assizes, a certificate for each county in which such presentment has been made, specifying the amount then properly chargeable upon the barony under such presentment, and shall transmit the certificate to the secretary of the grand jury, to be laid before the grand jury, and thereupon the grand jury shall, without any previous application to presentment sessions, make a presentment for the amount specified in such certificate as payable by such barony, or, in default of such presentment, the amount shall be raised off the barony by an order of the judge of assize, which order shall have the force of a presentment. The amounts raised under such presentment shall be paid to the Commissioners of Public Works in such manner as the Treasury shall direct.
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