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If quarter sessions are directed to be held in any place where there may not be a sessions house, the surveyor to prepare specifications, plans, &c.
Grand jury to examine them, and present that a sessions house shall be built, and a sum levied off the county for that purpose, &c.
If no presentment is made, &c. lord lieutenant to direct commissioners of public works to build sessions houses, &c.
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70. In case at any time hereafter the lord lieutenant shall direct that a quarter sessions of the peace or any adjournment thereof shall be holden for the despatch of civil or criminal business in any town or place in which there may not be a sessions house, the surveyor of the county shall, on being required by the lord lieutenant so to do, prepare such specifications, maps, plans, sections, and elevations as may be necessary for the erection of a sessions house therein, expressing the nature and probable expense of the works and the materials proper to be employed; and the same shall be delivered to the secretary of the grand jury, who shall lay the same, together with a copy of the warrant of the lord lieutenant, before the grand jury at the assizes next after the time at which he shall receive the same; and the grand jury shall examine such specifications, maps, plans, sections, and elevations, and such others as may be laid before them, and either adopt the same or make such alterations therein as they may think proper, or reject the same, and shall present that a proper and sufficient sessions house shall be provided or built in such town or place within the period of one year from such assizes, and that a sum not exceeding one thousand pounds shall be levied off the county for that purpose at one time, or by instalments to be completed within the period of five years; and the surveyor shall thereupon prepare a proper form of tender for the execution of such work, and shall deliver the same to the secretary of the grand jury, who shall lay the same, together with the presentment, and the specifications, maps, plans, sections, and elevations, as approved of by the grand jury, before the next presentment sessions holden for the county at large, who shall direct within what period before the day to which such sessions may be adjourned tenders for the execution of the works shall be received; and any tenders that shall be made for the execution of such works shall be opened at the first adjournment of such sessions, and dealt with in all respects in like manner as any other tender for a work approved of and presented is: Provided always, that if such presentment shall not be made, and a valid contract for executing such work shall not be entered into within the period of two months from the assizes at which such warrant shall have been laid before the grand jury, it shall be lawful for the lord lieutenant to direct the commissioners of public works in Ireland to build or provide such sessions house; and on the production to the grand jury at any assizes of the certificate of the secretary of such commissioners that a sum not exceeding the sum of one thousand pounds has been expended in building such sessions house and purchasing a site for the same, or for either of such purposes, the grand jury shall and they are hereby required to present the sum so certified to be levied off such county in one payment, and to be paid to the secretary of the said commissioners in satisfaction of the sum so expended: Provided further, that in case the said commissioners of public works shall find it convenient to take a lease of any premises for the purpose of building such sessions house thereon, they shall be at liberty to do so, and to engage to pay an annual or other rent for the same, not exceeding the sum of fifty pounds per annum; and the grand jury shall and they are hereby required from time to time to present a sum equal to the amount of such rent to be levied off the county and paid in discharge of the same.
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