County Dublin Grand Jury Act, 1844

Presentment for erection of lunatic asylums, under 1 & 2 Geo. 4. c. 33.

27. At any time after any order in council shall be made by the lord lieutenant, by and with the advice of her Majesty’s privy council in Ireland, under and by virtue of the provisions of an Act passed in the first and second years of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled “An Act to make more effectual provision for the establishment of asylums for the lunatic poor, and for the custody of insane persons charged with offences in Ireland,” or any Act or Acts amending the same, and after such order shall have been published in the Dublin Gazette, it shall and may be lawful for the grand jury of the said county, at any presenting term, to present, without previous application to presentment sessions, such sum or sums of money, to be raised off such county at large, or any barony or baronies thereof, as shall be requisite for defraying the expences of erecting and establishing an asylum for the lunatic poor, or for erecting any ward for the reception of idiots or incurable lunatics for such district, or any proportion thereof, ascertained by any order made by the said lord lieutenant and privy council.