County Dublin Grand Jury Act, 1844

Applications shall be lodged with secretary twenty-one days before presentment sessions.

Secretary shall have an abstract and index printed, and posted in district.

76. Every application to be made at presentment sessions shall be lodged with the secretary of the grand jury twenty-one days at least before the day appointed for the holding of the first presentment sessions in such county next before each presenting term; and such secretary shall keep an office open for the purpose of receiving such applications during ten days immediately preceding the last day upon which such applications are required to be lodged with the secretary; and the said applications shall be open to public inspection without fee or reward; and such secretary shall, on the receipt of each application, endorse or cause to be endorsed thereupon the time when the same is lodged, and number and arrange all such applications as the works therein comprised may be proposed to be defrayed by the county at large or by any barony thereof, and shall make an abstract thereof and an index thereto, referring to the numbers which he shall mark on each application, and cause the same to be printed and distributed, and a copy thereof posted in each district; and such secretary shall produce and deliver all the applications which shall have been lodged with him or delivered at his office as aforesaid at the sessions proper, as herein-before provided, for the consideration of the same, together with the abstract thereof and the index thereto.