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Applications for compensation when and where to be made.
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136. Every application under this Act for compensation for loss or damage occasioned by any malicious injury as aforesaid shall be made at the next presentment sessions which shall be holden after the commission of such offence for the barony, county of a city, or county of a town where the same shall have been committed, unless any such malicious injury shall have been done after the day appointed for holding the first presentment sessions after the assizes for the county in which such injury shall have been done, or so near the day of holding the same that such application for compensation cannot be duly lodged as herein-before directed, in either of which cases the person or persons so injured shall make such application at the presentment sessions which shall be holden next but one after the time of the commission of such offence for the barony, county of a city, or county of a town where the same shall have been committed, and the notices of such application shall be posted accordingly; and it shall not be lawful for any grand jury to make any presentment for compensation for malicious injury under the provisions of this Act, except at the assizes next ensuing to the sessions where application shall have been made therefor.
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