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Mode of raising county rate.
Clerk of crown, within fourteen days after fiat, shall make out list of presentments. Secretary shall make out estimate;
and finance committee shall ascertain proportion to be raised off each barony, &c.
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97. The clerk of the crown for the said county of Dublin shall, within fourteen days after the fiating day of each presenting term, deliver to the secretary of the grand jury, without fee or reward, a copy, attested upon oath, and signed by himself, of all presentments which have been made and fiated at such presenting term, and likewise copies of all queries discharged and remaining undischarged, distinguishing the same; and the secretary of the grand jury shall from such copy forthwith make out an estimate of the amount to be raised in each barony or portion of a barony or parish in the county during the ensuing year under the authority of the baronial or local presentments made during such presenting term, and to meet the probable baronial expenditure during the ensuing year, and also of the amount to be raised upon each such barony respectively to defray its proportion of the general county charges under the authority of the presentments upon the county at large made during such term, and to meet the probable expenditure on the county at large during the ensuing year, and shall lay the same before the finance committee at their first meeting; and the finance committee shall consider and revise such estimate, and shall then declare and strike the amount to be levied off each barony and parish or denomination during the ensuing year, as well on account of the baronial charges as upon account of charges upon the county at large.
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