Lunacy (Ireland) Act, 1821

Commissioners may rent and purchase premises for erecting lunatic asylums.

6. In each and every case where an order of council for the erection of a district lunatic asylum shall have been made and published in the Dublin Gazette as in this Act is provided, the said commissioners for general controul and correspondence shall have full power and authority to rent or purchase any houses, buildings, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, on the scite, or scites of which it shall be proposed to erect or maintain any such district lunatic asylum; and any houses, lands, tenements, buildings, or hereditaments so rented or purchased shall and may be conveyed to the said commissioners or any three of them, and to their heirs and successors, in trust to and for the uses and purposes of the said district lunatic asylum.

[S. 7 rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91. (S.L.R.)]