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Presentments on baronies for widening, narrowing, and repairing roads and filling up ditches.
Barony pounds.
Presentment for parish pounds.
Sum presented to he levied on parish.
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55. It shall be lawful for the grand jury to present any part of any public road to be widened to any breadth not more than fifty feet in the clear, or to narrow such roads as the surveyor may report to be unnecessarily wide, and to present all such sum or sums of money as shall be necessary for widening and fencing the same, or for gravelling, macadamizing, paving, fencing, repairing or otherwise improving any part of any public road, or for filling up any grips or trenches on the sides of any public road, and making sufficient fences instead thereof, or for filling dikes or holes on the sides of any public road, or turning the backs of ditches to any road, or for making, widening, or deepening drains on the side of any such road, and carrying off the water therefrom, or for making any barony pounds, to be levied off the barony or baronies where the same shall be situate, and, on a requisition signed by any twenty rate-payers in any parish, to present any sum not exceeding twenty pounds for erecting a parish pound within any such parish, and such pound when so made shall be to all intents and purposes a good, sufficient, and lawful pound, and the sum so presented shall be applotted and levied upon such parish.
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