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49 It shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant in Council, by Order in Council from time to time to declare that the Chairman of Limerick, and the Chairman of Waterford, and the Recorders of Londonderry and Galway, or any of them, shall have jurisdiction in Admiralty causes, and to assign to each such Chairman and Recorder as his district for Admiralty causes any area irrespectively of the districts in which such Chairman and Recorders respectively shall have (independently of this section) jurisdiction, and in any such case to prescribe the places and times at which local courts for Admiralty causes shall be holden, and to direct that such of the provisions of the Court of Admiralty (Ireland) Act, 1867, and the Court of Admiralty (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1876, as may by such order be prescribed shall apply to the said Chairman and Recorders, and to such local courts as aforesaid.
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Each of the said local courts shall have jurisdiction to arrest and to hold to bail, notwithstanding that the amount sued for in the cause shall exceed the limit fixed by the Court of Admiralty (Ireland) Act, 1867, but in such cases the cause shall in other respects be subject to the provisions of the seventy-seventh section of the said Act, and the Clerk of the Crown and Peace for the cities of Limerick, Waterford, Londonderry, and Galway respectively shall have the aforesaid jurisdiction to arrest and hold to bail at all times when the Civil Bill Courts of the said cities respectively shall not be sitting; and the Registrars of the said Chairman and Recorders respectively shall also have the same powers within the jurisdiction in Admiralty causes of their respective courts as are conferred on Registrars by section forty-six of the Court of Admiralty (Ireland) Act, 1867.
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