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Power to alter divisions, &c.
Lord Lieutenant may-alter existing divisions, and appoint other places for holding sessions.
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31. It shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant, from time to time, by and with the consent and advice of the Privy Council, to alter the divisions and districts for the holding of sessions in any county or riding now existing or hereafter to exist, and to divide the several counties or any of them, or any riding or division of a county, including all counties of cities and counties of towns, boroughs, towns, and places, into as many divisions or districts as shall be thought proper or expedient for the purpose of more conveniently hearing and determining causes by civil bill, and of transacting all such criminal or all such other business as may be cognisable or determinable at any general or quarter sessions of the peace, and to appoint one or more convenient town or place, towns or places, in any such division or district, in which a civil bill court, and a court for transacting such criminal and other business as aforesaid, or a civil bill court only for hearing and determining causes by civil bill, shall be held, and from time to time to alter any such division or district, or any town and place, towns or places, within such division or district, or to discontinue any such town or place, as to the said Lord Lieutenant, with the advice aforesaid, shall seem fit; and every such division or district shall be distinguished by the name of such town or place; and every such sessions, and adjournment thereof, shall be good and effectual for the administration of criminal business and civil bill cases, and doing all other business that may by law be done at the general quarter sessions of the peace, or for hearing and determining causes by civil bid only, as the case may be; and in case of any town or place being so discontinued as aforesaid the same shall thereupon cease to be a town or place for the holding of sessions therein for any purpose whatsoever.
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