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Where a jury is impannelled to value premises, commissioners, with consent of the lord lieutenant, may appoint persons to preside in the court and receive the verdict.
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12. Provided always, that in every case when a jury shall be impannelled and sworn for the valuation of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments rented or taken for the scite of any lunatic asylum as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said commissioners or any three of them to appoint, by an instrument in writing under their hands and seals, by and with the approbation of the lord lieutenant in council, not less than six persons, nor more than twelve, three of whom shall be competent to act on behalf of the said commissioners in presiding at such court and receiving the verdicts of such jury as shall be held and impannelled for such valuation, such persons so appointed and approved of being magistrates for one or more of the counties, counties of cities, or counties of towns comprehended within the district for which such asylums respectively have been or shall be erected, or of the county, county of a city, or county of a town of which such district shall consist; and the acts of such magistrates, or any three of them, shall be of equal force and validity with those of the commissioners themselves, so far as relates to holding a court for such valuation and performing the duties necessary for such valuation, as prescribed by the said recited Act of the fiftieth year of his late Majesty’s reign, or any Act or Acts for amending the same.
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