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Persons to be appointed by commissioners, with consent of the lord lieutenant, to preside in court, to receive verdicts of juries in cases where questions of valuation are so referred.
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12. Provided always, that in every case, when a jury shall be impannelled and sworn for the valuation of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments rented or taken for the scite of any lunatic asylum as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said commissioners to appoint by an instrument in writing under their hands and seals, by and with the approbation of the lord lieutenant, in council, not less than six persons, nor more than twelve, three of whom shall be competent to act on behalf of the said commissioners, in presiding at such court, and receiving the verdicts of such jury as shall be held and impannelled for such valuation, such persons so appointed and approved of being magistrates for one or more of the counties, counties of cities, or counties of towns, comprehended within the district for which such asylums respectively have been or shall be erected, or of the county, county of a city, or county of a town, of which such district shall consist; and the acts of such magistrates shall be of equal force and validity with those of the commissioners themselves, so far as relates to holding a court for such valuation, and performing the duties necessary for such valuation, as prescribed by the said recited Act of the fiftieth year of His late Majesty’s reign, or any Act or Acts for amending the same.
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