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Grand jury to consider and decide on all applications, fixing amount and time for execution of works;
and may receive evidence.
Grand jury shall make presentment specifying maximum amount, and how it shall he raised.
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84. The grand jury shall, upon being impannelled and sworn as aforesaid, forthwith proceed to transact in open court all such business relating to presentments for raising money, public works, contracts, or the fiscal concerns of the county, as may be appointed for them, and to consider and decide upon all applications which shall be made for presentments, as herein-before provided, in the order in which the same shall be entered in the schedules to be prepared as aforesaid, beginning with the applications for works to be defrayed by the county at large, altering, where they may deem it necessary, the amount or time for executing each work, and examining all maps, plans, estimates, and specifications relating to each application; and the said grand jury shall be attended by their secretary and by the district surveyors, and shall hear and receive, and direct to be read aloud in open court, the several reports and certificates of any such surveyor, and shall have power and authority, at their discretion, to receive and obtain all legal and pertinent evidence which shall be tendered to them for or against the making any presentment, or in anywise relating thereto, or concerning any public work, or the execution of the same, if made wholly or in part at the expence of the county or any portion of the county, or any contract of or in respect of any of the matters aforesaid, and shall make presentments for all matters and things hereby directed to be presented for, specifying in all presentments for county works, the maximum amount which shall be raised for the execution of such work, and whether such amount is to be raised off the county at large, or off any barony or parish or other denomination thereof, as the case may be; and the said grand jury shall sit de die in diem until all the business which may come before them of the nature hereby described be despatched; and if the whole of such business shall be concluded before the day appointed for fiating the presentments, then the said grand jury may adjourn to such day; and every grand juror who shall not attend pursuant to such adjournment may be fined by the judge for such non-attendance in any sum not exceeding ten pounds at the discretion of the said judge.
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