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Application of Act to cities and corporate towns.
23 & 24 Vict. c. 152.
39 & 40 Vict. c. 65.
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8. In cases where for the purposes of the Tramways (Ireland) Act, 1860, the grand jury of a county of a city, or county of a town, municipal corporation, town or other commissioners, are in the place of the grand jury of the county within which the city, borough, town corporate, place, or district over which they have control, is locally situate, then such grand jury of a county of a city, or county of a town, municipal corporation, or commissioners shall, for the purposes of this Act, be in like manner in the place of the grand jury of the county; and the provisions of this Act relative to a barony shall apply to the city, borough, town corporate, or other place or district within which such grand jury, municipal corporation, or commissioners have rating powers, and any rate or fund out of which the expense of making or maintaining roads might be defrayed shall for the purposes of this Act be in place of the grand jury cess leviable in a barony, and a resolution of such municipal corporation or commissioners, passed in the same manner as other resolutions for providing funds for the payment of debts, shall be in lieu of a presentment of a grand jury, and the matters and things which in the case of a grand jury of a county are prescribed to be done at the assizes, may be done at any convenient time appointed by the corporation or the commissioners.
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