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Presentments for public works under 1 & 2 Will. 4. c. 33., &c.
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126. Nothing in this Act contained shall limit or affect the powers, duties, or authorities of grand juries to make presentments for any public work or for the raising of any public money for which they are now or hereafter may be authorized or required to make presentment by virtue and pursuant to the provisions of an Act passed in the first and second years of his present Majesty’s reign, intituled “An Act for the extension and promotion of public works in Ireland,” or any other Act amending or altering the same; and wherever in and by the said recited or other Act grand juries are empowered to make presentments in order to obtain advances, loans, or grants from the commissioners for the execution of the said recited or other Act for the purpose of any public work which, under the laws in force at the time of the passing of such Act, it was competent for grand juries to present, they are hereby authorized and empowered to make similar presentments in all respects and for like purposes for any public works which they are under the provisions of this Act authorized to present, and such presentments when made shall be dealt with by the said commissioners in all respects as the presentments which grand juries were empowered to make in order to obtain advances, loans, or grants under the provisions of the said recited Act: Provided always, that no presentation shall be made for the purpose of obtaining any grant, loan, or advance of money from the commissioners for the execution of the said recited or other Act, unless an application shall have been duly made and approved at the proper presentment sessions in the manner herein-before appointed; and all works so applied for (except in the case of works to be constructed or executed under the direction of or by persons in the employment of the said commissioners) shall be executed by contract made upon sealed tenders and proposals in the manner herein-before prescribed with respect to other public works to be executed by grand jury presentments; and in all other respects the said recited Act or Acts, and all powers, authorities, conditions, clauses, and regulations therein contained, shall be and remain in full force and effect, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
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