Central Criminal Lunatic Asylum (Ireland) Act, 1845

Power to commissioners to purchase or rent buildings, lands, &c., which may be required for such central asylum.

3. In order to enable the said commissioners of public works in Ireland to purchase and provide the buildings, lands, tenements, and hereditaments which may be required for the said commissioners, with the approval of the Treasury, to contract and agree with any person or persons, or body or bodies corporate, for the purchase or renting of any buildings, lands, tenements, or hereditaments required for such central asylum, or the site thereof, and the premises to be occupied therewith, and also for the purchase of any subsisting leases, terms, estates, or interests therein, or charges thereon; and the buildings, lands, tenements, or hereditaments so contracted and agreed for shall be conveyed, assigned, or demised to or in trust for her Majesty in such manner and form as the Treasury shall direct.