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Presentment for building or repairing county fever hospital.
On presentment being certified to lord lieutenant, he may direct advance of money to county treasurer out of consolidated fund.
Treasurer to repay money so advanced.
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84. It shall be lawful to and for the grand jury of any county in which a fever hospital shall not have been erected before the passing of this Act, or in which it shall be made appear to the satisfaction of the grand jury that any fever hospital requires to be enlarged, repaired, or rebuilt, to present at any assizes for such county any sum or sums of money for the purpose of erecting, establishing, hiring, repairing, and fitting up one fever hospital in any such county in which no such hospital shall have been previously established, or for the purpose of enlarging, repairing, or rebuilding any fever hospital which shall have been previously established, and to set forth in such presentment that the sum therein mentioned shall be raised and levied within the period of six years by half-yearly or yearly instalments, and also to set forth in such presentment what part thereof shall be raised upon any barony or baronies in any such county, or on the county at large; and the treasurer of any such county shall from time to time, without further authority or presentment in that behalf, insert in his warrant at each assizes the portion or portions so set forth of the sum so presented, and the same shall be raised and levied in like manner from time to time, and with the like remedy in case of nonpayment, as all other money directed by such warrant is by law to be levied; and when and so soon as such presentment shall have been duly certified by the acting clerk of the crown to the lord lieutenant, it shall and may be lawful to and for such lord lieutenant to direct the amount of such sum of money so presented, or any part thereof, to be advanced out of the growing produce of the consolidated fund in Ireland to the treasurer of such county, to be applied for the purposes for which such presentment shall have been made, under such rules and regulations as to such lord lieutenant shall seem fitting and expedient; and such money so advanced and paid by such treasurer shall be accounted for by him in like manner as any other monies received by him for the use of such county, and all securities given by him or in his behalf shall extend to such money; and such treasurer shall from time to time pay to such bank or person as the Treasury shall direct all such sums as shall from time to time be received by him from the baronial or other collectors by virtue of the presentment on account of which such money shall have been advanced, until the whole sum advanced shall be repaid.
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