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Commissioners may receive applications for grants for roads or bridges, &c.
Half the expense to be provided by the applicants.
Commissioners shall enter applications in the same manner as applications for loans under this Act;
and shall decide upon them, and report their decision to the Treasury, who may approve or disallow the grant.
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63. The commissioners for the execution of this Act shall and may receive application for the making of roads and bridges by and with the aid of money to be granted for that purpose, in such and the like manner as they are herein-before directed to receive applications for loans to be advanced under this Act, and subject to such and the like rules and regulations, so far as they may be applicable, as shall have been ordained for their government therein; and the said commissioners shall, at their discretion, direct proper surveys, plans, specifications, and estimates to be made of such proposed lines of roads and bridges, and shall require of and from the persons applying for such grants of money that a sum equal in each case to a moiety of the estimated expense of making the proposed road or bridge shall be paid (or secured to be paid) to the satisfaction of the said commissioners, and also that security shall be given, to the satisfaction of the said commissioners, that the person or persons making such application shall and will supply and defray all such further sum or sums of money beyond such estimated expense as shall be necessary to make and complete such road or bridge agreeably to the plan, specification, estimate, and survey thereof made, or such other plan as may upon subsequent consideration be agreed upon by and between the said commissioners and the person or persons making the said application, but subject always to the sanction and allowance of the Treasury; and the said commissioners for the execution of this Act shall cause to be made, in a book for that purpose provided, proper entries of all particulars, showing the nature of each application and the circumstances thereof, and the advantages likely to accrue from the allowance thereof in respect of all the several matters here-in-before specified as proper to be regarded in deciding upon applications for loans under this Act, so far as the same may apply or be made applicable thereto, and also showing the nature of the securities offered, and shall arrange, classify, consider, and decide upon such applications for grants of money, in like manner as upon applications for the loan of money pursuant to the provisions herein-before contained, and shall report their decision upon such applications for grants of money to the Treasury, who shall have power and authority to approve and confirm or disallow any grant proposed to be made in compliance with any such application for the same made as aforesaid, in like manner as in the cases of applications for loans of money under the provisions of this Act.
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