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Commissioners may direct guardians of several unions to join in contracts.
Contracts not to be valid unless conformable to the rules of commissioners, &c.
Commissioners may direct guardians to proceed against contractors in default.
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92. The commissioners may direct the boards of guardians of so many unions as they may think fit to join in making any contract; and any contract which shall be entered into by or on behalf of any union, for or relating to the maintenance, clothing, lodging, employment, or relief of the destitute poor, or for any other purpose relating to or connected with the general management of the destitute poor, or the execution of this Act, which shall not be made and entered into in conformity with the orders of the commissioners, or otherwise sanctioned by them, shall be voidable, and, if the said commissioners shall so direct, shall be null and void; and all payments made under or in pursuance of any contract not made and entered into in conformity with such orders, at any period after the commissioners shall have declared the same to be null and void as aforesaid, shall be disallowed in passing the accounts of the guardians or other officers by whom such payments shall have been made; and it shall be lawful for the commissioners to direct the guardians of any union to take or institute any proceedings, civil or criminal, as the commissioners may think fit, against any contractor who shall have violated the terms of any such contract, or who shall have been guilty of any fraud in relation thereto; and the expenses of such proceedings shall be paid out of the rates levied under the authority of this Act in the union or unions interested in such contract.
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