Local Government (Drogheda and Meath) Act, 1845

Court of Conscience, Drogheda, to have Jurisdiction to Extent of Forty Shillings.

IX. ‘And whereas the Court of Conscience held before the Mayor of the Town and County of the Town of Drogheda, for determining Causes in all Small Debts between Party and Party under the Value of Ten Shillings, has been of great Use, and will be of still greater Advantage to the Inhabitants if the Jurisdiction of said Court be extended to the Determination of Causes in all Small Debts between Party and Party under the Value of Forty Shillings;’ be it therefore enacted, That the Mayor of the said Town and County of the Town of Drogheda for the Time shall have full Power and Authority to hear and finally determine Causes in all Small Debts between Party and Party under the Value of Forty Shillings, and shall have and exercise in relation thereto all the Powers, Authorities, and Jurisdictions which the Mayor of said Town and County of the Town hath heretofore had and exercised in the said Court of Conscience.