The Presentment system worked insofar as special Magistrates Session met locally to approve work on roads, bridges, harbours etc.   Widely seen as corrupt favouring works for certain Landlords at the expense of cess (Rate) payers.  This reform meant that prominent local citizens Catholic and Protestant farmers and business people sat at the Presentment sessions and had to approve work before they went to the Grand Jury sitting at the assizes.

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Cork Grand Jury (Civil Jurisdiction) To 1899

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