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Cork County, &c.
4. Geo. 4. c. 93.
Division of county of Cork.
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23. And whereas an Act was passed in the fourth year of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled “An Act to divide the county of Cork for the purpose of holding additional general sessions therein,” whereby, after reciting that the county of Cork is very extensive and populous, and that it is requisite, for the due administration of justice within the said county, and the preservation of the peace therein, that general sessions of the peace should be holden frequently therein, it was enacted, that from and after the first day of September one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, for the purpose of holding the general sessions of the peace in the said county of Cork, and for and in respect of all matters relating to such general sessions, but not for any other purpose or in any other respect, the said county of Cork should be and the same was thereby declared to be divided into two ridings, to be called the East Riding and the West Riding of the county of Cork; and that the East Riding of the said county of Cork should comprise and contain the baronies and the liberties following, that is to say, the barony of Duhallow, the barony or united baronies of Orrery and Kilmore, the barony or united baronies of Condons and Clongibbons, the barony of Fermoy, the barony of Kinnatalloon, the barony of Imokilly, the barony of Kerry-Currihy, the barony of Kinnalea, the barony of Barrymore, the barony of Barretts, the barony of East Muskerry (except only the parishes of Aheena and Ahabullog within the said barony), the liberties of the City of Cork, the liberties of Youghal, and the liberties of Kinsale; and the West Riding of the said county of Cork should comprise and contain the baronies and parts and divisions of the baronies following, that is to say, the barony of Beer or Bear, the barony of Bantry, the barony of West Muskerry, the parishes of Aheena and Ahabullog in the barony of East Muskerry, the barony of Kinalmeaky, the barony of Courcies, the barony or united baronies of Ibanne and Barryroe, otherwise called Barryroe and Ibanne, and the baronies of East Carberry and West Carberry, consisting of the eastern and western divisions of East Carberry and the eastern and western divisions of West Carberry; and from and after the said first day of September the said county was thereby declared to be divided accordingly for the purposes aforesaid, and no other; provided that such division of the said county of Cork for the purposes aforesaid should not be extended nor construed to extend to change or alter, or to limit or abridge, or abolish, any power, authority, jurisdiction, right, duty, or privilege of any high sheriff, sub-sheriff, or under sheriff, justice of the peace, or other magistrate, clerk of the Crown, clerk of the peace, or other officer whatsoever, of or in the said county, who should, at the passing of the said Act, or at any time after the passing of the said Act, hold, exercise, or enjoy any such office, or any other civil office whatever, within the said county of Cork, but that all the powers, authorities, jurisdictions, rights, duties, and privileges of such officers should continue in force and be exercised and carried into effect throughout the said county of Cork in like manner, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as if the said Act had not been had or made, except only so far as it was expressly provided and directed by the said Act: Now be it enacted, that the said county of Cork shall continue to be, until altered as herein-after provided, for the purposes aforesaid, and none other, divided in such manner and form, and under such regulations, conditions, and provisions, as hereby above recited and herein set forth as aforesaid: Provided always, that it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant at any time, and so from time to time, by and with the advice and consent of the Privy Council, to alter the boundaries or divisions of the said two ridings now existing or hereafter to exist, and to direct that such ridings shall comprise and contain such baronies, or parts or divisions of baronies, as to him, with such advice, shall seem fit, and to direct that such new boundaries or divisions shall become and be the boundaries of the said two ridings; and from thenceforth the boundaries herein-before provided of the said two ridings shall cease, and the said two ridings shall thenceforth contain and comprise the several baronies and parts and divisions of baronies so ordered and directed as aforesaid, subject to the several regulations, conditions, and provisions herein-before set forth.
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