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The Lord Lieutenant may direct the Commissioners of Public Works to examine and report upon the Subject of the Memorial.
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CXLVI. And be it enacted, That thereupon, if the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland shall so order, (and if the Person or Persons so applying depositing with the said Commissions such Sum of Money as they may require to defray the Expence of such Examination and Report,) the said Commissioners shall inquire into the Facts of the Case, and the Propriety and Expediency of complying with such Memorial; and if the said Commissioners shall, upon such Inquiry, be of opinion that Injury is caused to or Improvement prevented in the Land of the Person or Persons so applying, they shall report the same to the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors; and such Report shall be accompanied by a Plan, Estimate, and Specification for the Execution of the proposed Works for such Bridges, or to remedy the Evil complained of in such Memorial, and also a Statement of the Proportions in which the Expences thereof should be defrayed by the County or Counties, if more than One, between which such Bridge shall be, and by such neighbouring Counties (if any) as ought to be contributory to such Expences; and the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors shall, upon the Receipt of such Report of the said Commissioners, cause the same to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Grand Jury of each County named in such Statement as proper to be contributing to such Expences, to be by him laid before the Grand Jury at the next Assizes; and the Foreman of each such Grand Jury shall certify the same in like Manner as if the same were an Application made at Presentment Sessions for any new Bridge, the probable Expence whereof might exceed Fifty Pounds; and the Grand Jury at such Assizes shall also determine whether the Amount mentioned in such Report shall be raised off the County at large, or any Barony or Baronies therein, and the said Foreman shall endorse the said Report accordingly; and at the Meeting of Presentment Sessions for the Barony or Baronies, or for County at large, (as may be directed by such Grand Jury,) to be holden next after the Assizes at which such Report shall have been so certified as aforesaid, the same, together with the Plan, Estimate, and Specification relating thereto, shall be laid before the Justices and Cess-payers at such Sessions for their Consideration, who shall examine such Report, together with the Plan, Estimate, and Specification, and decide by a Majority of Votes whether the same ought to be adopted or rejected, or, in case only One County shall be liable to the Expence, what Modification of such Plan, Estimate, and Specification may be proper; and in such Case such Justices and Cess-payers shall, if need be, direct the County Surveyor to prepare a proper Form of Tender for the Alteration, Reconstruction, or rebuilding of such Bridge, expressing the Nature and Extent of the Works necessary, and the Materials proper to be employed in performing and executing the same, and the Term within which such Bridge should be altered, rebuilt, or reconstructed, and such other Particulars as the said Justices and Cess-payers shall think fit to prescribe, and shall deliver the Plan, Estimate, and Specification which shall be so approved of to the Secretary of the Grand Jury; and in Cases where the Expence is to be paid by any One County as aforesaid, such Justices and Cess-payers shall appoint the Manner in which Notice for the Receipt of sealed Tenders and Proposals for the Execution of such Works shall be given, and the Period during which they shall be received; and such sealed Tenders and Proposals shall be opened at the First Adjournment of such Sessions to be made for opening sealed Tenders and Proposals; and such Report, together with such sealed Tenders and Proposals, where such shall in the Case aforesaid have been made, shall be laid before the Grand Jury at the next succeeding Assizes; and in case such Report, or any Modification thereof, shall have been approved of at Presentment Sessions as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for each such Grand Jury, at the Assizes next after such Presentment Sessions, if they shall so think fit, to present, to be raised off the County at large, or any Barony or Half Barony therein, such Sum as by the Report of the said Commissioners shall be payable by such Grand Jury, or such other Sum as such Grand Jury may in their Discretion think fair and reasonable, towards the proposed Alteration, Reconstruction, or rebuilding of such Bridge, in such Manner, and according to such Plan and Specification, and on such Site, as the said Commissioners may in their said Report have recommended, or in ease Ono County only shall be liable to such Expence, then according to such altered or modified Plan or Specification as shall have been approved of at Presentment Sessions as aforesaid.
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