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In case the Parties cannot agree, Value of Premises may be ascertained by a Jury.
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II. And be it further enacted, That in case the said Postmaster General And such Owner or Owners, Proprietor or Proprietors, Lessee or Lessees, Guardian or Guardians, or any of them, cannot agree, the said Postmaster General for the Time being is hereby authorized and empowered from Time to Time by Warrant or Precept under his Hand and Seal to be directed to the Sheriffs of the City of Dublin, to command such Sheriffs to summon and return and such Sheriffs are hereby directed and required under the Penalty of Twenty Pounds, Which such Postmaster General or Secretary of said General Post Office for the Time being may, by an Order under his Hand and Seal, impose, to summon and return a competent Number of substantial and disinterested Persons qualified to serve on Juries, and being Inhabitants of the said City, not less than. Thirty or more than Sixty Persons, to appear before the said Postmaster General, or the Secretary of the said General Post Office for the Time being, at such Time and Place as by such Warrant or Precept aforesaid shall be directed and appointed, of which Time and Place such Persons so summoned as Jurors shall have Forty-eight Hours previous Notice; and every such Owner or Owners, Proprietor or Proprietors, Lessee or Lessees, Guardian or Guardians if to be found, shall have Seven Days previous Notice, and an Advertisement thereof, and if such Warrant having issued, shall be published Three Times in some Dublin Newspaper, the First Day of which Publication shall be Twenty Days at least previous to the Day on which such Jury shall be summoned be attend, and such Persons so summoned and returned are hereby required, under the Penalty of Five Pounds each, (which such Postmaster General or secretary may in like Manner as aforesaid impose) to appear before such Postmaster General or secretary of the said Post Office, at such Time and Place as in such Warrant or Precept shall be directed and appointed, and to attend until discharged by such Postmaster General or Secretary of the General Post Office, and out of such Persons so returned, a Jury of Twelve indifferent Persons shall be drawn by Ballot by some Person to be appointed by such Postmaster General or Secretary of the said General Post Office, and such Jury shall upon their Oaths (which Oaths, as also Oaths to such Person or Persons as shall be called upon to give Evidence, such Postmaster General or Secretary of the General Post Office, are hereby respectively authorized to administer) ascertain the Value of such House or Houses, Building or Buildings, Plot or Plots, Parcel or Parcels of Ground, and the Value of the several and respective Interests of such Persons as shall have any Right or Title thereto; and the said Postmaster General or Secretary of the laid General Post Office for the Time being, shall and may give Judgement for the Sum or Sums of Money at which such House or Houses, Building or Buildings, Plot or Plots, Parcel or Parcels of Ground shall be so valued, and such Verdict and Judgement thereupon shall be binding and conclusive to all Parties.
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