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County Kildare Grand Jury County Treasurer's Query Books
Repository Code: IE 2036
Archive Reference: KCA/GJ/T/1-7
Title: County Kildare Grand Jury
Creation Dates: 1857-1864
Extent Medium: 7 volumes
Respited queries and accounts. Printed volumes with some annotations.
GJ/T/7 County Book 1837 (template) - The County Treasurers (Ireland) 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 was passed in 1837. A county book model was published in 1837 for county treasurers which lays out the suggested classification of an account book for Grand Juries as follows:
First Division - unexecuted presentments (undischarged or respited queries which are contracts which have not been executed, or if executed, have not been technically accounted for before the Grand Jury) and settlement thereof.
Second Division - the applotment, (details of the half yearly (assize) taxation of the county), to be levied and paid into Treasurer two days previous to the ensuing Assizes.
Third Division - the presentments (ready money) conjecturally voted by Grand Jury at the previous Assizes, now accounted for by Treasurer.
Fourth Division - presentments of Public Works, &c. &c. fiated by the Judge of Assize, to be paid off by Treasurer after receipt of Applotment levy.
Fifth Division - detail of expenditure, and the Treasurer’s balance sheet audited by Grand Jury.
Sixth Division - presentments granted on conjecture by Grand Jury to meet the current expenses from this to the ensuing Assizes, e.g. expense of running the County Prison or County Hospital
Also includes Grand Jury Orders.