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Existing Contracts for Maintenance and Repairs of Roads and Bridges transferred to Grand Jury.
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XVIII. ‘And whereas Contracts or Agreements have been entered into by the said Commissioners of Public Works with certain Persons for the Maintenance and Repairs of certain of the said Roads and Bridges, and which Contracts are still subsisting, and it is expedient to make due Provision for the same:’
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From and after the said First Day of July all the Benefit and Obligation to which the said Commissioners of Public Works may be entitled or subject under any Contract entered into with them, and then in force, for the Repair of any such Road or Bridge as aforesaid, and under any Bond or other Instrument as a Security for the Performance of any such Contract, shall, without any Act or Deed whatever to be done by the said Commissioners of Public Works or any other Person, become transferred to and vest in the Grand Jury of the County in which any such Road or Bridge to which such Contract shall relate shall be situate, and every such Contract, Bond, or other Instrument may be proceeded upon by or on behalf of such Grand Jury, or at their Instance, in the same Manner as if such Contract, Bond, or other Instrument had been entered into in pursuance of the Provisions of the several Acts relating to the Presentment of Public Monies by Grand Juries in Ireland for the Repairs of Roads or Bridges, and every Person who entered into such Contract shall be entitled to the full Benefit of such Contract, as against such Grand Jury, and the same shall be as binding on such Grand Jury as if the same were entered into with such Grand Jury, and from and after the said First Day of February the Liability of the said Commissioners of Public Works in respect to any such Contract shall cease and determine.
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