County Dublin Grand Jury Act, 1844

Sale of old court houses.

Application of proceeds of sale.

18. It shall be lawful for the commissioners appointed as aforesaid by any grand jury of the said county to sell and dispose or to authorize the sale and disposal of any old court house or sessions house belonging to the said county in which the sessions have been discontinued or have ceased to be held, together with the ground or site on which the same is built, according to the title or interest which the county may have in the same, and also to sell and dispose of or to authorize the sale and disposal of all or any part of the materials of which such old court house or sessions house may be composed; and the money arising therefrom shall be paid to the credit of the finance committee of such county, and applied to defray the purchase money of any premises required for the erection of any new court house, or to the erection of such new court horse, or such other purposes connected with the county at large as any other public money raised off such county, and coming to the credit of such finance committee, may be applied.