County Dublin Grand Jury Act, 1844

Presentment on barony for new roads, application being previously lodged with secretary, and notice served on occupiers of lands to be traversed.

58. It shall be lawful for the said grand jury at any presenting term to present any new road to be laid out and made of any width not less than sixteen feet nor more than fifty feet in the clear, and to present all such sum and sums of money as shall be necessary for laying out, or for forming, levelling, and draining, or for gravelling, paving, and making the same, and also for making fences thereto, to be levied on the barony in which the same shall be situate, and when it passes through more than one barony then proportionally on each barony: Provided always, that no presentment shall be made for laying out any such new road, unless, together with the application therefor, a map of such intended new road has been lodged with the secretary of the grand jury ten days at least before the day for holding the first presentment sessions previous to each presenting term in such county, and that a notice, setting forth that an application is intended to be made for a presentment to lay out such new road, (distinguishing the several townlands and baronies through which it is intended to be carried, with the number of perches in length through each townland,) has been personally served upon or left at the house of each occupier of the land through which such new road is intended to be made, fifteen days at least before the day of holding such sessions, nor unless it shall appear that no part of such new road is to be made through any park enclosed with a wall built of lime and stone or bricks five feet high or more, without the consent of the owner thereof, and that no part thereof is to be made through any house entirely built with lime and stone or bricks, or through any office belonging to any person inhabiting a house so built, without the consent of such person.