The grand jury shall have free access at all proper hours to the papers, records, accounts and books of all county officers, for all examinations which, in its discretion, it may see fit to make, and may make report to the court in relation thereto.Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 251; 1871, § 2845; 1880, § 1674; 1892, § 2379; 1906, § 2708; Hemingway's 1917, § 2201; 1930, § 2054; 1942, § 1788.
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