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Every recognizance shall specify the name, addition, and residence of the person bound.
Persons becoming bail for appearance of an accused person or for keeping the peace shall make oath of their residence and sufficiency.
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2. Every recognizance taken in Ireland by or before his Majesty's Court of King's Bench there, or by or before his Majesty's chief justice of the said Court of King's Bench, or by or before any of the justices of the said Court of King's Bench, or by or before any justice or justices of oyer and terminer or gaol delivery, or by or before any justice or justices of the peace, either at their sessions of the peace or otherwise, or by any magistrate or other person lawfully authorized to take the same, shall contain the name and addition of the person or persons respectively thereby acknowledging himself, herself, or themselves respectively to be bound, and the name of the townland, parish, and barony or half barony, or town or city, and street therein (if in a county of a town or city), in which the usual or actual place or places of residence of such person or persons is or are respectively situated; and all and every persons or person who shall hereafter come before his Majesty's said Court of King's Bench, or before any of his Majesty's justices of the said court, or before any such justice or justices of oyer and terminer or gaol delivery, or before any justice or justices of the peace, either at their sessions of the peace or otherwise, or before any magistrate or other person lawfully authorized to admit to bail, in order to give bail or be bound for the appearance of any person or persons charged with any crime or crimes (which person so charged shall by law be entitled to bail), or for keeping the peace, shall respectively make oath in one of the forms here following, or in some other form of words to the like import and effect respectively; that is to say, if such person shall reside in a county at large, in this form; (to wit,)
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‘I A.B. do swear, that I am a householder, and have a house wherein I usually reside, at in the parish of barony or half barony of and county of, and that I support and maintain myself by , and that I am worth the sum of [here insert double the sum in which he or she is to be bound] over and above all my just debts. So help me GOD.’
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And if such person shall reside in a county of a city or town, the words ‘reside at’ and from thence to ‘county of’ shall be omitted; and instead thereof these words shall be inserted; (to wit,) ‘residing in [naming the street, square, lane, or place] in the parish of and county of the city or town of’; and every such oath shall be annexed to or be written on the same piece of paper or parchment with the recognizance, and shall be signed by the person making the same, and attested by the proper jurat of the court, judge, justice, or other person taking the same as aforesaid, and shall be sufficient in lieu of all and every oaths and oath required by any law in force in Ireland to be taken by any such surety.
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