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Grand juries may redeem tolls payable on bridges built under Irish Act 19 & 20 Geo. 3. c. 41. and 53 Geo. 3. c. 77.
Presentment of sums necessary to redeem tolls.
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121. At any time after the completing and opening of any bridge built in pursuance of an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth years of the reign of his Majesty King George the Third, intituled “An Act for empowering grand juries to present bridges and tolls to be paid for passing the same in certain cases,” and of an Act passed in the fifty-third year of the reign of his said Majesty King George the Third, amending the same, it shall and may be lawful for the grand jury of the county in which such bridge shall be situate, or, if situate in two counties, then for the grand juries of such counties, to redeem the tolls payable under the said Acts to the owner or owners of the said tolls, by paying in one sum to such owner or owners the original sum expended in building such bridge, with any deficiency of interest which may arise in case by the perception of the said tolls the said owner or owners shall not have received, above all necessary costs and charges of repair and collection of the said tolls, the legal interest at the least for the money originally expended in building and erecting such bridge; and on such payment of the original sum so expended, and of such deficiency, if any there shall be, then the said tolls shall cease, and the passage of such bridge shall be open and free to all cattle, carriages, and persons whatsoever; and such grand jury is hereby empowered, upon an application made and approved of in manner by this Act directed, to raise by presentment, to be levied off the county at large, such sum or sums of money as may be sufficient to defray the expenses of redeeming such tolls in manner aforesaid; such sum or sums to be paid to the owner or owners of such tolls.
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