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Commissioners may purchase sites for court houses under 6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 116., &c.
7 Geo. 4. c. 74.
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11. In order to enable the said commissioners of public works in Ireland to purchase the ground necessary as the site for the building of any court or sessions house to be built or provided by them by direction of the lord lieutenant under the provisions of the said recited Act of the sixth and seventh years of his late Majesty’s reign, it shall and may be lawful for the said commissioners to contract and agree with any person or persons or body or bodies corporate or politic for the purchase or renting of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments required for the site of such sessions house; and the lands, tenements, or hereditaments so contracted and agreed for shall be demised or conveyed to such commissioners, their successors and assigns, in trust for the uses and purposes aforesaid; and such demise or conveyance shall be made in such manner and under such regulations (so far as the same may be applicable) as are provided in an Act passed in the seventh year of the reign of his Majesty George the Fourth, intituled “An Act for consolidating and amending the laws relating to prisons in Ireland,” with respect to the demising and conveying of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments to commissioners under that Act[1]
; provided always, that in case the said commissioners of public works in Ireland shall be unable to agree with the owners of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments proper or necessary to be purchased for the purpose aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the said commissioners to issue their warrant to the sheriff in the manner directed by the said Act of the seventh year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Fourth, 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 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 the same rules, regulations, conditions, and jurisdictions, as in the said Act is provided concerning any lands, tenements, or hereditaments to be purchased by such valuation under the said last-mentioned Act, and the said commissioners shall in that behalf possess and exercise all and every the powers and authorities by that Act granted to and vested in the commissioners therein mentioned; and the grand jury of every such county, upon the production at any assizes of the certificate of the secretary of such commissioners of the amount of such purchase money and the costs attending such purchase and the expence of building such sessions house, shall and they are hereby authorized and required to present the sum so agreed upon or fixed as the purchase money of such premises and the costs attending such purchase, together with the expence of building such sessions house, provided that the whole sum so to be presented shall not exceed one thousand pounds, as in the said Act limited.
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