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Expenses of carrying out a drainage scheme.
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13.—(1) The expenses incurred by a county council in carrying out alone a drainage scheme shall be defrayed in the first instance either, as such council shall think proper, out of the county fund or out of moneys raised for the purpose by borrowing under this Act or partly in the one way and partly in the other way.
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(2) The expenses incurred by a joint committee in carrying out a drainage scheme shall be defrayed in the first instance by the county councils by whom such joint committee is appointed in proportion to the total amounts of the drainage assessments of lands in their respective counties, and the proportion of such expenses to be so defrayed by any of such councils shall be paid either, as such council shall think proper, out of the county fund or out of moneys raised for the purpose by borrowing under this Act or partly in the one way and partly in the other way and shall in any case be furnished to such joint committee on the prescribed demand and in the prescribed manner.
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(3) The moneys expended by a county council under the foregoing provisions of this section in defraying the expenses incurred in carrying out a drainage scheme (whether such scheme is carried out by such council alone or by a joint committee partly appointed by such council) shall be repaid to such council out of the following funds so far as they will respectively extend, that is to say, the sum fixed in the drainage scheme as the sum to be raised by such council by means of the drainage rate for the purpose of such repayment, the sum received by such council in respect of the State grant hereinafter in this Act provided for, and the county contribution (if any) of such council, and the residue of such moneys shall be repaid to such council out of the county fund of such council.
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