Grand Jury (Ireland) Act, 1836

Presentment for purchase money or rent of site of district lunatic asylum.

94. In each and every case when the commissioners appointed for general control and correspondence, and for the superintending and directing the erection, establishment, and regulation of district lunatic asylums, shall have rented or purchased any houses, buildings, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, on the site or sites of which it shall be proposed to erect or maintain any such asylum, it shall be lawful for the grand jury of any county in or for which wholly or in part any such asylum hath been or shall be established, and such grand jury are hereby required, at the assizes next ensuing the day or time when such purchase shall be made or such rent shall become due, or as soon after as shall be requisite, and so from time to time whenever the case shall happen, to present, without previous application to presentment sessions, to be levied off such county, such sum or sums of money as they shall be directed to present by the lord lieutenant of Ireland in council as aforesaid for the purpose of completing such purchase or paying such rent or rents.