Grand Jury (Ireland) Act, 1836

Sale of old court houses and sessions houses.

Proceeds to be applied to county purposes.

75. It shall and may be lawful for the commissioners appointed as aforesaid by any grand jury of any county to sell and dispose or to authorize the sale and disposal of any old court house or sessions house belonging to such county in which the assizes or sessions for such county have been discontinued or ceased to be held, together with the ground or site on which the same is built, according to the title or interest which such county may have in the same, and also to sell and dispose of or to authorize the sale and disposal of all or any part of the materials of which such old court house or sessions house may be composed; and the money arising therefrom shall be paid into the hands of the treasurer of such county, to the credit of such county, and applied to defray the purchase money of any premises required for the erection of any new court house, or to the erection of such new court house, or such other purposes as any other public money raised off such county and coming to the hands of such treasurer may be applied.