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Grand Jury may present Memorial for Drainage, and deposit Funds, to be repaid in case the Works are undertaken.
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IX. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Grand Jury, at the Assizes of any County within which any River or Stream capable of being deepened, widened, altered, or improved, for the Purpose of Drainage of any Lands which may be situate along or near such River, to make, if they shall so think fit, a Presentment, directing their Secretary to apply by Memorial to the said Commissioners for the Drainage or Improvement of any Lands along or near such River or Stream, and which may be flooded or injured by Water, or are capable of being drained, or the Drainage whereof may be capable of being improved, and to present (without Application to Presentment Sessions) any Sums which may be required for or towards defraying the Expences of the preliminary Inquiries for the Purpose of any such Drainage; and all and every the Powers, Authorities, and Provisions in and by the said first-recited Act given and contained for or in respect of the Memorial of any Grand Jury to the said Commissioners, and the Notice in respect thereof for the making or improving any Navigation under the Provisions of the said first-recited Act, as well as the Recovery and Payment of all Expences incurred in consequence of such Memorial, shall be deemed to apply to any such Memorial under this Act, and the Proceedings relating thereto for the Drainage of Lands as aforesaid, and the Recovery and Payment of all Expences incurred in consequence of such last-mentioned Memorial: Provided always, that in all Cases where under any such Memorial as aforesaid the necessary Works shall be undertaken and carried out by the said Commissioners, the Amount which shall have been so presented and paid to the said Commissioners shall, out of the first Monies borrowed for the Execution of such Works, be repaid to the Treasurer of such County, and be by him brought to the Credit of the County at large, or the Barony, Half Barony, or Townland, on or from which the same shall have been levied.
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