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Sites of court and sessions houses to be provided.
Provisions of 7 Geo. 4. c. 74. applied.
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16. 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 the said county, it shall be lawful for the grand jury of the said 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 adjoining 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 [1]
the Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1826, 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 be lawful 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 Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1826, 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 Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1826; 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 mariner as they may think proper; and such presentment may be made without any previous application to any presentment sessions.
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