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District surveyor may make application at sessions for necessary works not otherwise applied for, without previously lodging application.
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77. The district surveyor shall examine all the applications so lodged with the secretary of the grand jury as aforesaid; and in case no application shall have been made for the necessary surface repairs of any public road or footpath, or for keeping up any public road or footpath during the ensuing year, or the keeping open of any drain adjoining any public road, or any other public work which to the said surveyor shall appear necessary, or likely to become necessary during the ensuing year, it shall be lawful and he is hereby required to make application for the same in the manner herein-after appointed at the next presentment sessions to be holden for the county at large or barony by which the expence of such work ought to be defrayed; and it shall not be necessary for the said surveyor to lodge any application made by him with the secretary of the grand jury, but such application, being delivered to the chairman at such sessions, shall be dealt with thereat in all respects in the same manner as the other applications which shall have been lodged with the secretary of the grand jury.
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