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Purchase, &c. of sites for court houses and sessions houses.
7 Geo. 4. c. 74.
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72. Whenever any presentment shall be or has been made for the purpose of building a new or enlarging any court house or sessions house in and for any county, it shall and may be lawful for the grand jury of such county to authorize such commissioners as such grand jury shall appoint to contract and agree with any person or persons, or body or bodies corporate or politic, for the purchase or renting of any houses, buildings, lands, tenements, or hereditaments convenient for the site of any new court house or sessions house, or adjourning to any old court or sessions house, and convenient for the purpose of enlarging the same or the courts or outlets thereunto belonging; and the lands, tenements, or hereditaments so contracted or agreed for shall be demised or conveyed to such commissioners, and to their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, in trust for the uses and purposes aforesaid; and such commissioners shall be appointed, and such demise or conveyance made in such manner and under such and the like rules and regulations, as are prescribed in an Act made in the seventh year of his late Majesty’s reign, intituled “An Act for consolidating and amending the laws relating to prisons in Ireland,” with respect to the appointment of commissioners, and the demising and conveying of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments to such commissioners under that Act: Provided always, that in case such commissioners shall be unable to agree with the owners of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments proper or necessary to be purchased for the purposes of any such presentment, and if the grand jury by which such presentment shall have been made or any subsequent grand jury shall direct that the same be purchased or rented by and under the valuation of a jury, it shall and may be lawful to and for the commissioners appointed as aforesaid, or any three or more of them, to issue their warrant to the sheriff in the manner directed by the said Act of the seventh year of his late Majesty’s reign, and thereupon such and the like proceedings shall and may be had and taken for summoning, impannelling, and swearing juries, and valuing the premises so directed to be purchased or rented, and each and every part thereof respectively, and for obtaining the full possession and seisin thereof and a good title thereto in the said commissioners, and with and subject to all the same rules, regulations, conditions, and jurisdictions, as in the said Act provided concerning any premises to be purchased by such valuation under the aforesaid Act of the seventh year of his late Majesty’s reign, and the said commissioners shall in that behalf have, possess, and exercise all and every the like powers and authorities as by the said Act are granted to and vested in the commissioners therein mentioned; and it shall be lawful for any such or any subsequent grand jury to present the sum so agreed upon or fixed as the purchase money of such premises, and the costs attending such purchase, to be levied off such county, either at one time or by half-yearly instalments, in such manner as they may think proper; and such presentment may be made without any previous application to any presentment sessions.
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