Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the municipal corporations in Ireland: first report

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r IRELAND. 
46 

CRIMINAL JURISDICTION. 
Over what Offences, 

and whether or not exclusive. 

none save that of justice of the the peace; not exclusive. 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

jurisdiction of a county of a city ; felonies, ancl all minor offences. 

none save that of justice of the peace; not ex¬ clusive. 
all offences, trea¬ son excepted ; is exclusive. 

none save that of justice of the peace; not ex¬ clusive. 

all offences; is 

exclusive, 

CORPORATORS who are Borough Magistrates. 

the provost. 

the portreeve. 

sovereign. 

sovereign and recorder. 

the mayor, re¬ corder, and all the alder¬ men. 

the sovereign, 

the sovereign and recorder; two senior burgesses sit at sessions. 

the sovereign. 

mayor, bailiffs, and recorder. 

CORPORATORS who are ex officio County Magistrates 

the provost is al¬ ways named in commissions of the peace for county of Cork, 

none 

the mayor and recorder are justices ofthe county of Cork, 

the sovereign. 

none 

Nature and Limit 

of Jurisdiction 

of COURT OF RECORD. 

mayor and re¬ corder. 

N.B 
State whether or not disused. 

a Court of Pleas, with jurisdiction to £3 6s. 
Bd. 
; dis¬ used. 

none 

none 

a Couit of Pleas to £20Irish; disused. 

Court of Pleas in all actions personal and mixed, (eject¬ ments and reple¬ vin excepted,) un¬ limited in amount. 

Court of Pleas ; all personal actions, without limit as to amount. 

Court of Pleas in all personal actions, without limit in amount. 

GAOL, State of. 

no borough gaol. 

a manor bride¬ well, 

excellent. 

lhone 

I (Sufficient. 

inone i 1 

nsufficient. 

Average REVENUE. 

. 
Average EXPENDI¬ TURE, exclusive of Payments in Reduction of Debt. 

none none 

none none 

none none 

£132 10s. 
£132 10s. 

£. 
s. 
d. 
£6,237 6,153 13 1 

none none 

£550. 
£360. 

none none 

£914 8s. 
id. 
£696 2s. 
8d 

DEBT. 

£200 16s 3d 

£. 
s. 
d. 
7,247 17 9 

£1,933 ls.6d. 

£1,067. 

-

Whether any Accounts, 

and 

REMARKS. 
how kept. 

none. 

none. 

none. 

kept by treasurer; audited by a committee of the corporation. 
regularly. 

none. 

regularly. 

regularly.