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Presentments and contracts in respect of prisons under 7 Geo. 4. c. 74.
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124. [1]
Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to limit or affect the powers, duties, or authorities of grand juries to make any presentments which they are authorized or required to make under and by virtue of an Act passed in the seventh year of the reign of his late Majesty, intituled “An Act for consolidating and amending the laws relating to prisons in Ireland”: Provided always, that it shall not be lawful for any grand jury to make any presentment under the provisions of the said recited Act for any salary or compensation to any keeper, turnkey, or matron of any gaol, penitentiary, bridewell, or house of correction, or for building, rebuilding, altering, enlarging, or repairing any gaol, bridewell, house of correction, or other prison, (except in the case of repairs made under the provisions of the said recited Act, in consequence of any fire or other sudden accident which may happen to any such gaol, bridewell, house of correction, or other prison,) unless application for such presentment shall have been made and approved at presentment sessions in the manner herein-before directed and provided: Provided also, that all contracts which any grand jury is authorized to make or enter into under the provisions of the said recited Act shall be made by sealed tenders and proposals, to be delivered, opened, and dealt with, and security to be taken, in like manner as herein-before provided with respect to other contracts for public works, anything in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided also, that no such contract shall be entered into, nor any presentment made thereupon, save upon and after an application made and approved at presentment sessions as herein-before directed.
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