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Presentment for constructing, repairing, &c. piers and quays on navigable rivers or lakes or on the sea coast, and making approaches, &c.
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67. It shall and may be lawful for the grand jury of any county to present, to be levied off such county, for the erection of any pier or quay, or for the repairing or enlarging of any existing pier or quay, on the banks of any navigable river or lake or on the sea coast, or for the making or repairing of any road or approach to any such pier or quay, or for deepening or embanking any such river or lake, in such county, any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole the sum of three hundred pounds, not exceeding two thirds of the whole sum at which said work has been contracted for: Provided always, that no sum or sums of money shall be presented for the erection of any pier or quay or the making any roads or approaches thereunto, until the person or persons making application therefor at the county presentment sessions shall have paid into the hands of the county treasurer a sum equal to the one third part of the whole sum at which said work has been contracted for, and such payment shall have been certified to the grand jury by the said treasurer’s receipt, nor unless the consent in writing, under the hand and seal of the owner or owners in fee, or of the person or persons having a lease of lives renewable for ever, or a term of years of not less than ninety-nine to come and unexpired at the time of making such presentment, of or in the lands on which the said work is to be constructed, shall have been lodged in the office of the said treasurer six clear days before the assizes at which the application for such presentment is to be considered.
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