Lancashire County Justices Act 1879
WHEREAS under an Act of the thirty-eighth year of the reign of King George the Third, chapter fifty-eight, the public business (other than criminal business) of the county palatine of Lancaster (herein-after referred to as "county business") is conducted at annual general sessions of the Justices of the Peace of the said county (herein-after referred to as "the Justices"), held at Preston in the said county:

And whereas the court of annual general sessions has heretofore been held at the Cou...