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Duties of district surveyors.
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8. Each surveyor to be appointed as aforesaid shall attend at each presentment sessions herein-after directed to be held in and for his district for the reception of applications for presentments, and also at the presentment sessions for the county at large, and shall afford such professional advice and assistance in the consideration thereof as may be required of him, under the direction of the grand jury, the finance committee herein-after directed to be appointed, or presentment sessions, and shall prepare forms of tenders and proposals, estimates, specifications, maps, plans, sections, or elevations of any work approved thereat, and shall himself make such application, when necessary, as herein-after directed, and shall also attend upon the grand jury, and as far as possible make to them a full and particular report on all applications for presentments lodged with the secretary as aforesaid, and the necessity or utility of the same, and on the correctness of the maps, plans, specifications, and estimates prepared as aforesaid, and how far it may be expedient to alter, vary, or modify the objects stated in such applications; and the said surveyor or surveyors shall also report generally on the state of public works in their respective districts, and on all applications on the part of contractors, and on the progress and execution of all public works formerly presented, and on the performance of all contracts, and on the state, repairs, progress, and condition of all buildings, roads, bridges, gullets, walls, or other work; and the said surveyor or surveyors, or one of them, as the grand jury or finance committee shall direct, shall audit all accounts of such works, and ascertain and certify the correctness thereof, and whether each contractor is entitled to payment, and how far and whether such contractor has conformed to the provisions of this Act and the laws in force in Ireland, and shall also report the name and description of all persons by him prosecuted for any nuisance or injury to any road, or any other offence of like nature, and the result of such prosecution, and the proceedings therein, and generally on all matters and things relating to the office of surveyor, or which may be given to him in charge by the grand jury or finance committee.
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