Timber Act 1767

Treasurers.

Presentment for treasurer of Tipperary not exceeding 20l. a year above the usual sum.

XII. And whereas the county of Tipperary from its situation and circumstances requires large sums to be raised for the repair of roads and other publick purposes, and requires a treasurer conversant in accounts, and who can give good and sufficient security for such large sums, as most necessarily be raised in that county: and whereas the yearly sum, which the grand jury of said county have power to present for the treasurer of said county by the laws now in force, is in no respect adequate to the trouble and expence attending said office: be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the first day of July one thousand seven hundred and sixty eight the grand jury of the assizes to be held for the said county of Tipperary from time to time shall have power, if they think fit, to make presentments in the usual manner for the raising any sum not exceeding twenty pounds a year for the treasurer of said county for the time being, over and above the sum which the grand jury of said county is empowered by the laws now in force to present for such treasurer, and the judges at such assizes shall and may confirm such presentment.