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Grand jury may give permission for tramway to cross a highway
Conditions may be annexed to such permission, and shall be binding on the promoters.
Security may be required for observance of conditions.
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10. In any case in which persons constructing any tramway shall only seek under the provisions of the said Act power to cross a highway, it shall be lawful for the grand jury, with the previous approbation of the presentment sessions held for the barony in which such proposed crossing is situate, to give permission for such crossing to be made; and thereupon and immediately upon such permission being given, and without any other approval, it shall be lawful for the persons constructing such tramway to lay down the same across any public road or roads for which permission shall have been so given; and it shall be lawful for the grand jury to annex to such permission any conditions or stipulations which to them shall seem fit; and in case such permission shall be used by the promoters, they shall be bound by such conditions and stipulations as if the same had been inserted in a special Act of Parliament authorizing such crossing, and all persons interested in same may have the same rights and remedies; and it shall be further lawful for the grand jury, if they shall so think fit, before such permission is acted on, to require persons of sufficient substance, to be approved to as they may direct, to enter into a bond to the secretary of the grand jury, county treasurer, or such other person as they may appoint, in such sum as they may name, conditioned for the observance of all such conditions and stipulations.
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