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Presentment for rent of petty sessions houses and lock-up rooms.
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20. It shall be lawful for the grand jury of the said county to present, to be levied off the county at large, for each of the places wherein petty sessions shall be appointed to be held, an annual sum not exceeding ten pounds for the rent of a room or rooms for the holding of petty or presentment sessions thereat, and of a lock-up room or house: Provided always, that such room or rooms shall not be in a house where spirituous or fermented liquors are sold, nor in any police barrack, nor in any other building maintained either wholly or in part at the public expense: Provided also, that whenever a public court house shall have been built and provided at any place so appointed no such presentment shall be made, but the petty and special sessions shall be holden in such public court house, and not elsewhere: Provided also, that it shall be proved, to the satisfaction of the county presentment sessions where application shall be made for such rent, that six meetings of justices, during the six months immediately preceding such application, have been held in such room or rooms.
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