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The mayor, &c. may take ground, &c. as herein. for erecting a market.
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LXIII. And whereas the scite of the present meat shambles of the said city of Cork, is inconvenient, narrow, and confimed, and obstructs the passage to both courts of assizes in said city, and lies in one of the most publick streets therein; be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty of the said city of Cork, to contract with the owner or proprietor, or owners or proprietors, or tenant or tenants of any house or houses, building or buildings, or any piece of ground which they shall judge convenient, not containing more than two English acres, and to purchase same, and the estate thereof, or interest therein, or to take any lease or leases thereof for any term of years, or lives, or to take a conveyance or assignment of any such lease or leases for the purpose of erecting a publick market or markets thereon, the said mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty, paying for the same, the full value thereof, either by way of purchase money or annual rent, such purchase money or annual rent as the case shall be, to be ascertained upon the oaths of twelve indifferent men of the city and parishes aforesaid, which oath the mayor, sheriffs, and common speaker of said city of Cork for the time being are hereby empowered to administer, and the said mayor, sheriffs, and common speaker for the time being are hereby empowered from time to time to issue a summons under their hands and seals requiring an indifferent jury of twenty-four men of the city or parish as aforesaid, to attend at such time and place as in such summons shall be specified, and the said mayor, sheriffs and common speaker for the time being, shall at such time and place swear twelve of the said twenty-four persons, who shall be drawn by ballot by the town clerk of said city, which twelve, shall be a jury for ascertaining the value of such house or houses, building or buildings, or piece of ground, and whose valuation shall be binding and conclusive to all persons whatsoever, and all purchases made by, and conveyances executed to, and all leases made, conveyed, or assigned to said mayor, sheriffs and commonalty of such premisses as aforesaid, shall be good and effectual notwithstanding any disability by settlement, coverture, minority in tail, or any other impediment whatsoever.
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