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Secretary of grand jury shall notify appointment to such cess-payers.
Justices and cess-payers to subscribe declarations in schedules 1 and 2.
Justices may act alone if cess-payers do not attend.
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72. The secretary of the grand jury shall forthwith signify by letter to each such cess-payer that he has been thus chosen as a member of presentment sessions for his respective district, and shall notify to him the day on which such sessions are to be held; and every justice shall, previously to acting at any presentment sessions, whether for any district, or for the county at large, make and subscribe in open court the declaration contained in the schedule marked No. 1. to this Act annexed; and every cess-payer associated with such justice or justices in manner aforesaid shall, previously to acting at any such sessions, make and subscribe in open court the declaration contained in the schedule marked No. 2 to this Act annexed, which said declaration any one of such justices, or the secretary of the grand jury, is hereby authorized and required to administer; and the chairman at each such sessions shall and he is hereby required to make out and deliver to the secretary of the grand jury a list of the names of all justices and cess-payers who shall have made and subscribed such declarations respectively at the sessions where he had presided; and every such secretary shall from time to time, without unreasonable delay, deliver the said list, and all the declarations so made and subscribed, to the acting clerk of the peace, to be by him preserved among the records of the same county: Provided always, that if none of the cess-payers so chosen shall attend any presentment sessions to be held under this Act it shall be lawful for such justice or justices alone to do all matters and things authorized by this Act to be done thereat by the justices and cess-payers associated in the business thereof.
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