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Any two justices may order sums not exceeding 20l. for repairing sudden damages to bridges, and 10l. to roads, &c.
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49. Any two justices of the peace at petty sessions in any county may, under their hands and seals, order any sum not exceeding twenty pounds to be expended in repairing any bridge, or any sum not exceeding ten pounds to be expended in repairing any public road, or any pier or quay on the bank of any navigable lake or river, now or hereafter to be built by grand jury presentment, which may be suddenly damaged, provided it shall appear upon the view of both of them, that the repairs of such bridge or road or such pier or quay cannot be delayed until the next assizes without prejudice to the public, . . .; and it shall be lawful for such justices to appoint a proper person or persons to repair the same; and the grand jury of any such county is hereby empowered to present at the next assizes the sum so expended in repairing any such bridge or road which is liable to be repaired by the county at large to be levied on such county at large, and any sum so expended in repairing any other road to be levied on the barony or on the county of the city or town wherein the same is situate, and any sum so expended in repairing any such pier or quay to be levied on the county at large; and the sum so presented in the said several cases shall be paid to the person or persons so appointed by such justices to make such repairs, upon his or their producing such order under the hands and seals of the said justices, and also a certificate under the hand of the county surveyor that the sum specified in such order appears to have been faithfully and honestly expended pursuant thereto: Provided always, that the same justices of the peace shall not make or sign more than one order for the expenditure of any sum as aforesaid for the reparation of the like sudden damage between the termination of one assize and the commencement of another.
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