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Presentment for erection of fever hospitals.
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24. Whenever it shall be made appear by statement on oath to the grand jury of the said county that there has been actually received from private subscriptions or donations any sum or sums of money for the purpose of erecting any house to be applied to the reception of fever patients, and either connected with any local dispensary or not, as the case may happen, and upon a certificate by one or more physicians that there is a necessity for providing accommodation for such patients, it shall and may be lawful for such grand jury to present, to be raised off such county at large, any sum not exceeding double the amount of the sum or sums so raised by donation or subscription, and actually received by the treasurer, to be applied, together with the monies so received by private donation or subscription, in erecting such house for fever patients, in such manner as the subscribers of any sum not less than one guinea, or such committee of them, not fewer than five, as they shall appoint for that purpose at any general meeting of such subscribers, shall in their discretion deem most advisable: Provided always, that the affidavit and certificate herein mentioned shall, together with the application for such presentment, have also been laid before the presentment sessions, and approved thereat: Provided also, that an account of the receipt and expenditure of such fever hospital from the time of its establishment to the time of the first presentment required, and afterwards from the time of each presentment required till the time when any further presentment is required, shall, together with an application for the sum so proposed to be presented, be laid before the presentment sessions to be holden under this Act for the purpose of considering applications for presentments, and that such account and application shall be approved at such sessions.
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