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For maintaining a dispensary in a county, &c. grand jury may present sums equal to the amount of private subscriptions and donations given for the purpose.
Treasurer of dispensary to lay before grand jury accounts of receipts and disbursements verifiedon oath.
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Whenever it shall appear to the grand jury of any county or county of a city or county of a town that there has been actually received from private subscriptions or donations any sum or sums of money, since the preceding assizes, for the purpose of establishing or supporting a dispensary for furnishing medicine and affording medical or surgical aid to the poor of any city, town, or place within such county, it shall be lawful for such grand jury to present, to be raised of such county or county of a city or county of a town, and to be paid to the treasurer of such dispensary, a sum equal in amount to the sum or sums so received by such treasurer, to be applied under the direction of the subscribers of any annual sum of not less than one guinea, or such committee of them not fewer in number than five as they shall appoint for that purpose at any general meeting of such subscribers, together with the monies so received by private subscription or donation, in providing medicines and medical and surgical aid for the poor of such place and its neighbourhood: Provided always, that in all cases where such dispensary shall have been actually established, and any money shall have been raised by presentment granted for the use of such dispensary previous to such assizes, such treasurer shall lay before such grand jury an account of all receipts and disbursements up to the first of January or first of July (as the case may be) immediately preceding such assizes; and such treasurer shall also annex to such account a statement of all further sums of money which he shall have actually received from private subscriptions or donations for the support of such dispensary for the ensuing year; and the said account and statement shall be verified on the oath of such treasurer, and shall be deemed sufficient documents whereon to ground such presentment; and in all cases where no sum of money shall have been granted as aforesaid previous to such assizes, such statement alone so verified shall be deemed a sufficient document whereon to ground such presentment; and in either case the sum or sums so stated to have been received shall form the first item to the debit of such treasurer in his account for the succeeding year; or such treasurer shall once in every year lay before such grand jury an account so verified of the receipts and disbursements of all sums received by him, either from private subscription or donation, or from presentment as aforesaid, for the use of such dispensary.
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