Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1826

If presentments are not made by grand juries judges shall order the necessary amount to be added to the treasurer’s warrant, and raised as if presented.

132. If any of the said grand juries, after having been properly called upon and directed by such court and judges respectively to make such presentments as are required by this Act, shall notwithstanding refuse or neglect or omit to make such presentment or provision respectively before the last day of any assizes or presenting term respectively, then and in every such case the said court and judges respectively are hereby empowered and required to direct that the amount of the sum which ought to have been presented shall be added to the warrant of the treasurer of the county, county of a city, or county of a town, and shall be raised, levied, applotted, and assessed, after the same manner as the presentments for county charges, on the county at large.