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Finance committee, twenty-one days before each presenting term, shall make up half-yearly county accounts, and each barony account shall be kept separate.
Presentment for balance due from county or barony.
Accounts to be audited under 7 Will. 4. & 1 Vict. c. 54.
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96. At least twenty-one days previous to the commencement of the presenting term in each year a special meeting of the finance committee shall be called by the secretary, for the purpose of making up the county accounts for the preceding year; and a separate account shall be kept and made out and balance struck for each barony, and a statement shall be made of the sums not paid on account of presentments, and of the amount not received on account of the assessment upon each barony; and the finance committee shall classify the amounts paid by them during the year, according to the purposes for which the payments were made; and the accounts when made up shall be signed by the chairman of the finance committee, and shall be laid before the grand jury on the first day of the then ensuing presenting term; and such accounts shall recite the authority under which each payment shall have been made, and a copy or abstract thereof shall be printed with the abstract of presentments; and it shall be lawful for the grand jury to present any balance which after examination of the accounts may appear to be due by the county at large or any barony, such balance to be raised off the county at large or such barony respectively: Provided always, that the accounts of the finance committee shall be transmitted by the secretary to the proper office, and shall be examined and audited in the same manner and subject to the same regulations as the accounts of county treasurers, under and by virtue of an Act passed in the first year of her present Majesty’s reign, intituled “An Act to provide more effectual means to make treasurers of counties and counties of cities in Ireland account for public monies, and to secure the same.”
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