Relief of Distress (Ireland) Act, 1880

Future meetings of baronial sessions.

11. At any time before the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty, the Lord Lieutenant may from time to time, if he thinks fit, convene extraordinary presentment sessions for any barony, and may issue instructions to the justices and the associated cess-payers assembled at such sessions, to which instructions they shall conform.

The Lord Lieutenant may from time to time, if he think fit, revoke, vary, or add to the instructions issued before the passing of this Act, or which may be issued by him to the justices, and associated cess-payers constituting any extraordinary presentment sessions, hut in so far as such instructions relate to any loan or advance of money only with the consent of the Treasury. All presentments made by such sessions, in accordance with the instructions from time to time in force, shall be as valid and effectual as if they had been duly presented by the grand jury, and fiated by the court at any assizes or presenting term.

The Commissioners of Public Works may, with the consent of the Treasury, make loans or advances for the purposes of carrying into effect the presentments of any extraordinary presentment sessions convened under the authority of this Act, and for the other purposes mentioned in the instructions issued by the Lord Lieutenant, upon the terms herein-after stated.

All instructions issued by the Lord Lieutenant to the justices and associated cess-payers of any extraordinary presentment sessions shall be laid before Parliament within one mouth after they have been issued, if Parliament is then sitting, and if not, then within one month after the next meeting of Parliament.