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Presentment for support of fever hospitals established by subscription.
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81. [1]
Where any fever hospital for the purpose of furnishing medicine and affording medical and surgical aid to the poor of any city, town, or place in any county, is now or shall be hereafter established in such county by private subscriptions or donations, and a certificate of the sum or sums of money actually received by the treasurer of such fever hospital from private subscription or donation since the last application to presentment sessions, or since the establishment of such fever hospital, and a statement of the number of persons admitted or relieved, together with an account of the receipt and disbursement of all monies raised by virtue of any presentment for such fever hospital, as well as of all monies actually received from private subscription or donation for the use of such fever hospital since the date of such last application or establishment, shall have been laid before the presentment sessions ensuing the disbursement thereof, and such certificate and account, verified upon the oath of such treasurer, shall, together with the application for a presentment for such fever hospital, have been allowed and approved of at such sessions, it shall be lawful for the grand jury of such county at any assizes, and they are hereby required, to present, to be raised off such county, a sum not exceeding, double the amount of such private subscriptions or donations so received, to be paid to the treasurer of such fever hospital, and applied (under the direction of the subscribers of any annual sum of not less than one guinea, or such committee of them, not fewer in number than five, as they shall appoint for that purpose at any general meeting of such subscribers), together with the monies received by private subscription and donation, in fitting up and supporting such fever hospital, and in providing medicine and medical and surgical aid for the poor of such place and its neighbourhood: provided also, that no such presentment shall be made unless it shall appear by the certificate of such treasurer, verified as aforesaid, that the medical attendant resided since the creation of such hospital, or since the last assizes (as the case may be), at or within five statute miles of such hospital; . . .
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