Grand Jury (Ireland) Act, 1836

Declarations of justices and cess payers.

10. Every justice shall previously to acting at any presentment sessions make and subscribe in open court the declaration marked (A.) in the schedule (Z.) to this Act annexed; and every cess payer associated with such justice or justices in manner aforesaid shall previously to acting at any such sessions make and subscribe in open court the declaration marked (B.) in the schedule (Z.) to this Act annexed; which said declarations any one of such justices or the secretary of the grand jury is hereby authorized and required to administer; and the chairman at each such sessions shall and he is hereby required to make out and deliver to the secretary of the grand jury of the same county a list of the names of all the justices and cess payers who shall have made and subscribed such declarations respectively at the sessions where he had presided; and every such secretary shall from time to time, without unreasonable delay, deliver the said list and all the declarations so made and subscribed to the acting clerk of the peace, to be by him preserved among the records of the same county.