"1. The Presentment Sessions will estimate the sum which it may be
necessary to raise off the barony for the purpose of affording
employment.
"2. They will also ascertain the proportion of such assessment, which,
according to the last poor law valuation may be chargeable upon each
electoral division of an union or portion of an electoral division (if
the whole shall not be included) in the barony; and they will obtain for
this purpose, from the clerk of each poor law union, a copy of such
valuation.
"3. They will present for such useful and profitable works to be
executed in each electoral division, to the amount of its proportion of
the assessment ascertained as above.
"In the case of drainage, however, and subsoiling, so far as it shall be
connected with drainage, an undertaking shall be given in writing, and
transmitted with the presentments by the person or persons whose lands
are proposed to be drained (being 'proprietor' in the terms of the Act 5
and 6 Vic., chap. 89), stating that the money so to be expended shall be
a charge exclusively on the lands so to be improved, and be levied from
the same, according to an award made by the Commissioners, as under the
last mentioned Act and its amendments.
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