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CAP. XX.

An ACT to provide for the erection of a new Court House and Gaol in the County of Northumberland.

Passed 19th March, 1827.

Preamble

 

 
WHEREAS the Court House and Gaol in and for the County of Northumberland, were destroyed in the great conflagration in October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, and it is necessary that other Buildings should be erecteed in the Shire Town of that County, not only to supply the places of those so destroyed, but that the Building for a Gaol should be so constructed as to answer the purpose also of a House of Correction;

The Justices to take steps for erecting two Buildings in Newcastle, one for a County Court House and the other to answer as a Gaol and House of Correction.

 

 

Justices by themselves or Committees to contract with workmen, &c.

 
I.   Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council, and Assembly, That the Justices of the Peace, for the said County, at any General Session of the Peace, to be hereafter holden, or at any Special Session for that purpose expressly convened and holden, or the major part of them so assembled, be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to take the necessary steps for the erection of two Buildings on the Public lot in Newcastle, one of which to be suitable and convenient in their judgment, for a Court House for the said County, and the other suitable and convenient for the double purpose of a Gaol and House of Correction:   and to cause all necessary and proper measures to be pursued and taken at such Session, or any adjourned or General Session, by themselves or by one or more Committees of management, for that purpose to be appointed, to contract with able and sufficient workmen for erecting and finishing such Buildings, for such sum or sums of money, and in such manner and form as shall be approved of by the said Justices.

 
 
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C. 20. Anno VIII. Geo. IV.   A. D. 1827.


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