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Where land has been given for the site of any old gaol, without any regular conveyance, or conveyances have been lost, &c., the site shall be vested in commissioners for sale.
Sale to be made after advertisement to the highest bidder.
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49. Whenever it shall appear that land has been given for the site of any old gaol, bridewell, house of correction, or other prison, without regular conveyance of title, or that the deeds of conveyance have been lost or destroyed, or that by the decease of trustees, or defect of heirs of the surviving trustee, or from any other cause, no person exists or can be found competent or qualified to convey the legal title of and in such old gaol, bridewell, house of correction, or other prison, to any purchaser, then and in such case, if the gaol or premises to be sold as aforesaid have been used as a gaol for the term of seven years or more, the commissioners appointed according to this Act for the purchase of a new site for a gaol, bridewell, house of correction or other prison, or any other commissioners, not being less than six or more than twelve in number, whom the grand jury shall at any assizes or presenting term appoint for such purpose, shall be deemed and are hereby constituted legal owners of the old gaol, bridewell, house of correction, other prison, in fee or fee ail, or for such term or time as the same was originally granted for, and if no such grant is known to have existed, then in fee simple, upon trust however to contract with a purchaser and sell the same, and execute all deeds and conveyances necessary for that purpose, and give a sufficient receipt for the purchase money: Provided always, that such old gaol, bridewell, house of correction, or other prison shall be sold to the best bidder, after having been advertised for that purpose in the Dublin Gazette, and in some other newspaper printed within or near to such county, county of a city, or county of a town, for three months at the least before the terms of sale shall be accepted; which advertisement the treasurer of the county, county of a city, or county of a town shall cause to be inserted and paid for, and for which be shall be repaid with lawful interest, together with all costs and charges, out of the first monies produced by such sale; and after deducting such money, and also the expence attending the sale, the money produced thereby shall be paid to the treasurer of the county, to be placed to the credit thereof.
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