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Proportions of Sums advanced to be repaid by Counties.
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XIII. And be it enacted, That such Sums as shall from Time to Time be advanced by way of Loan as aforesaid by the said Commissioners of the Treasury to the said Commissioners for the Execution of this Act, by the Issue of Exchequer Bills, or by the Issue of Money out of the said Consolidated Fund, shall be repaid by Grand Jury Presentment (save and except in those Cases where, by any Award made or to be made under the Provisions of the said recited Act or this Act, it shall have been determined that any Proportion of the Sums so advanced for the Execution of any particular Work shall be so repayable by the Owner of any individual Estate, or in any other Manner); and all Monies so to be repaid by Grand Jury Presentment shall be repaid by Twelve half-yearly Instalments, to be presented and levied off the Counties or Portions of Counties declared respectively by such Awards to be liable to the Repayment thereof, with Interest on the Monies so from Time to Time advanced at the Rate of Four Pounds per Centum per Annum; and the Sums so from Time to Time proper to be presented by the Grand Jury of each County to be levied off the same, or any Portion thereof, shall be fixed and certified by the said Commissioners for the Execution of this Act in the Manner herein-after mentioned: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of the Treasury, if they shall in any Case so think fit, to enlarge the Time herein-before limited for the Repayment of the said Monies, so nevertheless that the whole shall be repaid within Ten Years from the Date of the Advances.
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