County Infirmaries (Ireland) Act, 1831

In case of not making out a good title, &c. the money to be paid into the bank.

32. In case the person or persons to whom such sum or sums of money shall be so ordered to be paid as aforesaid shall not be able to make a good title to any such land, ground, houses, tenements, or hereditaments, to the satisfaction of the said commissioners, or shall refuse to execute such conveyance or conveyances, or in case such person or persons to whom such sum or sums of money shall be so ordered to be paid as aforesaid cannot be found, or if the person or persons so entitled to such lands, grounds, houses, tenements, or hereditaments be not known or discovered, then and in every such case it shall be lawful for the said commissioners to order the said sum or sums so awarded to be paid into the Bank of Ireland, in the name and with the privity of the Accountant General of the said Court of Chancery, to be placed to his account to the credit of the parties interested in the said lands, grounds, houses, tenements, or hereditaments [describing such parties], subject to the order, controul, and disposition of the said court; which said court, on the application of any person or persons making claim to such sum or sums of money, or any part thereof, by motion or petition, shall be and is hereby empowered, in a summary way of proceeding or otherwise, as to the said court shall seem meet, to order the same to be laid out and invested in the public funds, or to order distribution thereof, or payment of the dividends thereof, according to the respective estate or estates, title or interest, of the person or persons making claim thereunto, and to make such other order in the premises as to the said court shall seem just and reasonable; and the cashier or cashiers of the Bank of Ireland, who shall receive such sum or sums of money, is and are hereby required to give a receipt or receipts for such sum or sums, mentioning and specifying for what and for whose use the same is and are received, to such person or persons as shall pay any such sum or sums of money in the said bank as aforesaid.