Grand Jury (Ireland) Act, 1836

Lord lieutenant to make rules and regulations touching the venue in all cases to be tried within the said divisions, and all other matters consequent upon such division.

Division not to abridge the rights of sheriffs, &c.

177. It shall and may be lawful for said lord lieutenant, with such advice as aforesaid, to make rules and regulations touching the venue in all cases, civil and criminal, then depending or there-after to be depending and to be tried within such divisions or ridings of any such county, and touching the alterations of any commissions, writs, precepts, or other proceedings thereby made necessary, and touching the attendance and liability of jurors, whether grand jurors, special jurors, or common jurors, at such assizes, or at any sessions to be holden for such ridings or divisions, and to make such orders, rules, and regulations for the building or fitting up of any gaol or court house in such town so to be appointed as the assize town of any such riding, and for ascertaining the proportions to be borne by each division or riding of all presentments or other fiscal charges affecting the county at large, and to make all such rules, orders, and regulations touching all other presentments as may be rendered necessary from time to time in consequence of the division of said county, and all other rules, orders, and regulations as may be necessary for carrying into full and complete effect the object of having two half-yearly assizes holden in and for said county in manner aforesaid; and all such rules, orders, and regulations shall be inserted in the Dublin Gazette, and notified in such other manner as orders of the lord lieutenant in council are usually notified: Provided always, that such division of said county for the purposes aforesaid shall not be deemed, construed, or taken to damage, alter, limit, or abridge any power, authority, jurisdiction, right, duty, or privilege of any high sheriff, sub-sheriff, or justice of the peace or other magistrate of the said county, or to affect the holding of an election of a member or members to serve in Parliament for such county, which shall continue to be holden at the town at which it is now by law required to be holden until Parliament shall otherwise direct.