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Remuneration for county officers.
30 & 31 Vict. c. 46
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15. The Commissioners of Public Works may pay to the secretary of the grand jury of any county, and to the county surveyor, such sums as they consider to have been properly and necessarily expended by such secretary or surveyor in publishing notices or advertisements, or in attendance at such presentment sessions, or otherwise in relation to such presentment sessions, and for the remuneration of such clerks or assistants as the Commissioners may sanction. The sums so paid by the Commissioners, and any sums paid by them before the passing of this Act to any such secretary or county surveyor for such purposes, shall be repaid to the Commissioners by grand jury presentment in the manner provided by this Act.
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The grand jury shall present to every collector remuneration for the collection of all assessments made for the purposes mentioned in this Act, at the same rate as they present to him for collecting grand jury cess; and the grand jury may, if they think fit, also present to the secretary of the grand jury, and the county surveyor, and his assistants, and to the treasurer of any county who was in office as such treasurer prior to the passing of the County Treasurers (Ireland) Act, 1867, such reasonable sum, to be levied off the county at large, as remuneration for the trouble incurred by each such person in respect to such presentment sessions, as, having regard to the other duties of such person and the rate at which he is remunerated for them, the grand jury thinks fit.
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Where any presentment has been made at extraordinary presentment sessions for the making of a new road or the widening of an old road, the grand, jury may, without previous application to presentment sessions, present, to any owner or occupier of the ground through which the new road is to be made or into which the old road is to be widened, as compensation for the loss sustained by such owner or occupier, such sums as they think fit, chargeable upon the barony or baronies in which the land is situate. All such owners and occupiers shall be entitled to traverse for damages.
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The Commissioners of Public Works may, if they think fit, lend to any grand jury the amounts presented by the grand jury under the authority of this section. Every such loan shall be chargeable upon the county at large, or upon the barony specified in the presentment, and shall be repayable on the same terms as the loans for other presentments validated by this Act.
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