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Grand jury as soon as impannelled to proceed with fiscal business, and to make or refuse presentments on all applications approved by presentment sessions, &c.
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37. The grand jury shall, upon being impannelled and sworn before the sheriff as aforesaid, forthwith proceed to transact in open court all such business relating to presentments for raising money, public works, contracts, and the fiscal concerns of the county, as may be appointed for them, and to consider and decide upon all applications which shall be made for presentments as herein-before provided, in the order in which the same shall be entered in the schedules thereof to be prepared as aforesaid, beginning with the applications for works to be defrayed by the county at large, and examining all maps, plans, estimates, and specifications relating to each application; and the said grand jury shall be attended by their secretary, and by the county surveyor or surveyors, and shall hear and receive and direct to be read aloud in open court the several reports and certificates of such surveyor or surveyors, and shall have power and authority, at their discretion, to receive and obtain all legal and pertinent evidence which shall be tendered to them for or against the making any presentment or in anywise relating thereto, or concerning any public work or the execution of the same, if made wholly or in part at the expense of the county or any portion of the county, or any contract of or in respect of any of the matters aforesaid; and the said grand jury shall sit de die in diem until all the business which may come before them of the nature hereby directed to be despatched before the opening of the commission, shall be concluded, or until the day appointed for opening the commission, or the first day of such term, shall arrive; and if the whole of such business shall be concluded before such day, then the said grand jury may adjourn to such day; and every such grand juror who shall not attend pursuant to such adjournment, shall be fined by the judge of assize for such nonattendance in any sum not exceeding the sum of fifty pounds, at the discretion of the said judge.
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