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Duties of county surveyors.
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42. The surveyor or surveyors to be appointed as aforesaid shall attend at each presentment sessions to be held for the reception of applications for presentments, and shall afford such professional advice and assistance in the consideration thereof as may be required of him, and shall prepare forms of tenders and proposals, specifications, maps, plans, sections, or elevations of any work approved thereat, and shall himself make such application when necessary as herein-before directed, and shall also attend upon the grand jury, and make to them a full and particular report on all applications for presentments lodged with the secretary as aforesaid, and the necessity or utility of the same, and on the correctness of the maps, plans, specifications, and estimates prepared as aforesaid, and how far it may be expedient to alter, vary, or modify the objects stated in such applications; and the said surveyor or surveyors, or one of them, shall also report on all applications on part of contractors, and on the progress and execution of all public works formerly presented, and on the performance of all contracts, and on the state, repairs, progress, and condition of all buildings, roads, bridges, gullets, walls, or other work; and the said surveyor or surveyors, or one of them, as the grand jury shall direct, shall audit all accounts of such works, and ascertain and certify the correctness thereof, and whether each contractor is entitled to payment, and how far, and whether such contractor has conformed to the provisions of this Act and the laws in force in Ireland, and shall also report the name and description of all persons by him prosecuted for any nusiance or injury to any road, or any other offence of like nature, and the result of such prosecution, and the proceedings therein, and generally on all matters and things relating to the office of surveyor, or which may be given to him in charge by the grand jury.
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