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Presentment for rent of petty sessions rooms, &c.
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77. It shall be lawful for the grand jury of any county to present, for each of the places wherein petty sessions shall be appointed to be held, an annual sum not exceeding ten pounds, to be raised off such county, for the rent of a room or rooms for the holding of petty or special sessions thereat, and of a lock-up room or house, provided that such room or rooms shall not be in a house where spirituous or fermented liquors are sold, nor in any police barrack, nor in any other building maintained either wholly or in part at the public expense; and provided that whenever a public court house shall have been built and provided at any place so appointed, no such presentment shall be made, but the petty and special sessions shall be holden in such public court house, and not elsewhere: Provided also, that it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the county presentment sessions, where application shall be made for such rents, that six meetings of justices during the six months immediately preceding such application shall have been held in such room or rooms.
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