County Dublin Grand Jury Act, 1844

Grand jury shall present sums expended for such repairs, &c. to be levied off barony in which road is situate.

65. Whenever any such road or bridge, or any portion thereof, not being a turnpike road or bridge, shall be so put in good and sufficient repair, under the direction of the said commissioners, the secretary to the said commissioners shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the secretary of the grand jury of the said county a certificate of the amount of money which shall have been so expended upon the repair of any such road or bridge, or any portion thereof, and the other expences aforesaid, together with an account of the items of such expenditure, certified by the said county surveyor or other person employed; and every such certificate and account shall at the next or some succeeding presenting term be laid before the grand jury of any such county, and thereupon the grand jury shall make presentment of the amount of such expences, as stated in such certificate, to be raised off the barony or baronies in which such road shall be situate; and when and so soon as the sum so to be presented as aforesaid shall be raised and received it shall be paid over by the finance committee to such bank or person as the Treasury shall direct, or to such person or persons and in such manner as may be directed by the paymaster of civil services in Ireland.