Disused Public Buildings (Ireland) Act, 1808
DISUSED PUBLIC BUILDINGS (IRELAND) ACT 1808 | ||
CHAPTER CXIII. | ||
An Act to empower Grand Juries in Ireland (or Persons appointed by them) to sell or exchange Ground that has been occupied by old Court Houses, Gaols, or County Infirmaries, and the Materials thereon. [30th June 1808.] | ||
Grand juries in Ireland may appoint commissioners to sell or exchange premises that have been used for court houses, gaols, &c. | ||
WHEREAS new court houses, gaols, and county infirmaries have been built or may hereafter be built in many counties in Ireland, and it is necessary to enable grand juries to dispose of the ground on which such old court houses, gaols, and county infirmaries stand, and of any buildings or materials thereon, and to grant a sufficient title thereto: May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that in all cases where the grand jury of any county or county of a city or county of a town shall have procured ground to build or erect a new court house, gaol, or county infirmary, and that the same is completed and in use, and that such grand jury shall conceive it expedient to sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of the land occupied by or in any way appertaining to such old court house, gaol, or county infirmary, or any building thereon, in any county or county of a city or county of a town in Ireland, it shall and may be lawful for the grand jury at any assizes for any such county or any county of a city or county of a town in which such old court house, gaol, or county infirmary is situated, to appoint and nominate any number of persons not less than five as commissioners to sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of any such ground, or of any building or materials thereon; and such commissioners or any three of them so appointed shall have full power to sell by auction, to exchange, or otherwise dispose of any such ground, or any building thereon, or to dispose of separately or together of any timber, slates, stones, bricks, or other materials thereon, and to make contracts and agreements for and concerning the same, to sign leases or deeds conveying the same, and to do all matters and things requisite for carrying such agreements into due execution for and on behalf of such county, county of a city, or county of a town, such agreement nevertheless and the leases and deeds conveying the same to be laid before the grand jury at the following assizes, and, if approved of by such grand jury, the foreman is to affix his name thereto; and the money arising from such sale of such ground or materials shall be paid to the treasurer of such county, county of city, or county of a town, and by him placed to the credit of the county at large, and may be disposed of by the grand jury for or in aid of any new court house, goal, or county infirmary, or in such other manner as by law they shall be entitled, for the general advantage of such county or county of a city or county of a town at large. |