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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.
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Peaceable possession for sixty years deemed a good title.
Presentment for expences of sale, &c.
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2. And . . . whereas in many cases there is much difficulty in making out a title to grounds that have been so occupied by such old court houses, gaols, and county infirmaries, although there has not appeared any claimant thereto for many years: Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid that all such ground or any buildings thereon that has been occupied as aforesaid for sixty years and upwards in a peaceable and quiet manner and without any claimant on record in any court of law, such peaceable and quiet possession for sixty years shall be considered as a good and valid title; and such commissioners so appointed as aforesaid or any three of them shall have full power and authority to convey the interest, fee, and inheritance thereof in as large and as ample a manner as the same was held and enjoyed by the county; and such conveyance by deed, lease, or other instrument signed by such commissioners, or any three of them, and approved of by the grand jury as aforesaid, shall be deemed, taken, and considered as a good, sufficient and valid title in law, said grand jury nevertheless being first satisfied as to the due payment of the purchase money to the treasurer as aforesaid, or as to any other valuable consideration that may have been agreed for thereto; and it shall and may be lawful for such grand jury to grant a presentment for all reasonable expences attending the disposal and conveyance of such ground and materials.
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