5 paid by the same county or counties, county of a city or district off or by which and in all respects as the sums or expenses requisite for supporting, supplying and maintaining the same respective lunatic poor would or might be or ought to have been, or to be raised, provided for and paid in case the same lunatic poor were respectively kept and maintained in the said Richmond Lunatic Asylum; and the Grand Jury of each such county, county of a city or county of a town, or of the county or county of a city or county of a town in which such district may be situated, shall, without any previous proceeding at 10 any Presentment Sessions, present the sum or sums so to be ascertained accordingly, or in default thereof the same shall be inserted in and raised by an order of the Judge of Assize, or of the Court at any Presenting Term, which order shall have the force of a presentment, and the sum or sums therein mentioned shall be applotted and raised 15 and levied accordingly, as if the same had been inserted in a presentment duly made at the assizes or presenting term at which such order shall be made; and such sums respectively, when so from time to time raised and provided, shall be paid over to the said Poor Law Commissioners, and by them be placed to the credit of the funds of 20 the said House of Industry. 2. AND whereas by an Act of the last Session of Parliament, intituled, 8 & 9 Vict., "An Act for the Establishment of a Central Asylum for Insane c. 107, s. 23. Persons charged with Offences in Ireland, and to amend the Act relating to the Prevention of Offences by Insane Persons, and the 25 Acts respecting Asylums for the Insane Poor in Ireland, and for Three or appropriating the Lunatic Asylum in the City of Cork to the Purposes of a District Asylum," it is amongst other things enacted, that the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, shall be and he and they are thereby empowered, if they shall so think 30 fit, to appoint one or two duly qualified and experienced persons to act as Inspectors of Lunatics in Ireland: AND whereas by the said Act no provision was made for the salary or expenses incident to the office of any such Inspector, and it is expedient to make provision for the same; BE it therefore Enacted, That it shall be lawful 35 for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any more of them, to fix the salary of any such Inspector of Lunatics in Ireland, so that the same shall not exceed Seven hundred Pounds yearly; and to fix the sum to be allowed to any such Inspector for travelling and other expenses, not exceeding One Guinea for every 40 day that he shall be wholly absent from Dublin on the business of his said office; and also to fix the salary of a Clerk or Clerks and Messenger in and for the office of such Inspector; and such salary and expenses of any such Inspector, and the salaries of any such Clerk, Clerks or Messenger, shall be paid by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's 499. 4 2 Salaries may be paid by the Commis sioners of the Treasury to the Inspector and Clerks. of Lunatics 3. The Lord Lieutenant may order Superannuation Allowances to Keepers and Officers of District Asylums. Majesty's Treasury out of the Consolidated Fund of the United AND whereas it is expedient to make provision for the superannuation of the Keepers, Officers, Matrons or Nurses of District Lunatic Asylums in Ireland; BE it therefore Enacted, That it 5 shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being, upon the recommendation in writing of the Inspector or Inspectors of Lunatics, supported by the certificate of the Governors or Directors of any District Lunatic Asylum in Ireland, or by such other certificates, and 10 by the result of such inquiries (if any) as the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland shall require or direct, and upon its thereby appearing to the said Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Governor or Governors, that any Keeper, Officer, Matron or Nurse of any such District Lunatic Asylum is incapable, from age or infirmity of mind or 15 body, to discharge the duties of his or her office, and upon proof that copies of such recommendation and certificate or certificates, and a statement or statements in writing of the results of such inquiry (if any), signed by the Chief Secretary, or Under Secretary, of the Lord Lieutenant, or Assistant Under Secretary, have been trans- 20 mitted to the Secretaries of the Grand Juries of the respective counties, counties of cities or counties of towns, forming the district of such District Lunatic Asylum, and laid before such respective Grand Juries, to order, by warrant under his hand, that such Keeper, Officer, Matron or Nurse shall and may be superannuated, and shall and may 25 receive such yearly allowance or superannuation as to the said Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors, shall seem fitting and proper, and a copy of such warrant shall be transmitted to the Secretary of each such Grand Jury; and thereupon such Keeper, Officer, Matron or Nurse shall cease to hold his or her 30 office, and the yearly sum to which he or she shall become entitled shall be paid by the Governors or Directors of such District Asylum out of the funds of such Asylum to him or her half-yearly during his or her life, upon due proof to the satisfaction of such Governors or Directors that such person is living, and shall be raised, levied and 35 provided for, together with and in like manner as the other charges and expenses of or connected with such District Lunatic Asylum are raised, levied and provided for: Provided always, That no such superannuation allowance for any such Keeper, Officer, Matron or Nurse shall in any case exceed Two-thirds of the annual salary to 40 which such person shall be entitled at the time of his or her superannuation, nor the proportions with reference to the amount of the salary of any such Keeper, Officer, Matron or Nurse, and the periods of their services respectively, which by an Act of the fourth and fifth years c. 24. years of the reign of his late Majesty King WILLIAM the Fourth, 4 & 5 W. 4, intituled, "An Act to alter, amend and consolidate the Laws for regulating the Pensions, Compensations and Allowances to be made to Persons in respect of their having held Civil Offices in his Majesty's 5 Service," are directed to be observed. 4. AND whereas by an Act of the seventh year of his late Majesty 7 G. 4, c. 14. King GEORGE the Fourth, intituled, "An Act for the further Amendment of an Act of the First and Second Years of his present Majesty, for the Establishment of Asylums for the Lunatic Poor in Ireland," 10 it is amongst other things enacted, that if it shall at any time happen that any money shall have been raised off any county, county of a city or county of a town, or any part thereof, towards defraying the expenses of erecting, establishing, maintaining or supporting of any Lunatic Asylum, and that by reason of any change of the district or 15 place in or for which such Asylum shall have been established, such county, county of a city or county of a town, or any part thereof, shall be taken out of the district liable to be assessed for such expenses, then and in such case any sum or sums of money which shall have been raised off such county, county of a city or county of 20 a town, or such part thereof as aforesaid, shall be raised off 30 any and every county, county of a city or county of a town, or any part or parts thereof which shall remain within such district; and all and every sum and sums which shall be so raised shall be repaid to the Treasurer of the county, county of a city or county of a town which 25 shall have been removed from such district; and that whenever any county, county of a city or county of a town, or any part or parts thereof which shall have been comprised in any former district, shall, by reason of any such change as aforesaid, be comprised in or shall form part of any new district, such county, county of a city or county of a town, or such part thereof, shall be and is hereby declared to be subject and liable towards the defraying the expenses of any asylum in or for such new district, in like manner as is directed by the said recited Acts, or either of them, and as if such county, county of a city or county of a town, or such part thereof, had been originally com35 prised in or formed part of such new district: AND whereas by the said recited Act of the last Session of Parliament it is amongst other things enacted, that when any change of the district of any District Asylum shall be made as aforesaid, no sum of money for defraying the expenses of maintaining or supporting any such District Asylum (after the same shall have been erected and established) shall from and after the passing of this Act be raised off any county, county of a city or county of a town, or any part thereof, which shall remain (or be) within such district, or be repaid to the Treasurer of the county, county of a city or county of a town which 40 A 3 shall In case of change of 5. shall have been removed from such district, or be raised off any county, county of a city or county of a town, or part thereof, which shall have been comprised in any former district, and shall by reason of any such change be comprised in or form part of any new district for any such Asylum, any thing in the said recited enactment to the contrary notwithstanding: AND whereas it is expedient that the sums payable under the said recited provisions should be paid by instalments, and applied as herein mentioned; BE it therefore Enacted, That the respective sums of money for erecting and establishing any such Lunatic Asylum so to Asylums, the be raised and repaid, as in the said recited provisions mentioned, shall 10 be raised and paid in or by instalments or proportions, which instalments or proportions shall, as nearly as the circumstances of the case. will admit, be payable at the same periods as the instalments or proportions or sums which any such last-mentioned county, county of a city or county of a town which shall have been removed or transferred from any such district shall be liable to pay and contribute towards the erection or establishment of any District Lunatic Districts of Lunatic Sums to be repaid under recited provisions shall be paid by Instalments, and applied in liquidation of the payments which the County transferred from one be liable to make for the Asylum of another District. 15 20 25 District shall Asylum in and for the district to which such last-mentioned county, county of a city or county of a town shall be so transferred; and it shall be lawful for the said Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors, and Privy Council in Ireland, by any order, to ascertain the instalment or proportion, instalments or proportions, which ought to be so raised and paid, and the times at which the same shall be payable and paid, and the county, county of a city or county of a town, or part or parts of a county, county of a city or county of a town, off which each such instalment or proportion ought to be raised; and the Grand Jury of each such county, county of a city or county of a town shall, without any previous proceeding at any presentment sessions, present the sum or sums to be ascertained by any such order or orders accordingly, or in default thereof, 30 the same shall be inserted in and raised by an order of the Judge of Assize or of the Court at any presenting term, which order shall have the force of a presentment, and the sum or sums therein mentioned shall be applotted and raised and levied accordingly as if the same had been inserted in a presentment duly made at the assizes 35 or presenting term at which such order shall be made, and the same shall be so payable and shall be paid at the periods aforesaid to the Treasurer of the county, county of a city or county of a town which shall have been so removed or transferred from any such district; and such Treasurer shall pay over and apply such sums when so received, so far as the same shall extend or shall be required, as the case may be, in liquidation and discharge of such instalments so payable by such last-mentioned county, county of a city or county of a town so transferred as aforesaid. 40 And 5 5. moved from Gaols to Dis trict Asylums by order of the Lord not being be discharged Lieutenant, criminals,may on medical certificate that they are mind, or not dangerous Lunatics. of sound And be it Enacted, That any person who has been or shall be, by Persons reorder of the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, removed from any gaol and admitted into any District Lunatic Asylum, not being a criminal lunatic within the meaning of the said recited Act of the last Session of Parliament, may lawfully be discharged from such Lunatic Asylum without the order of the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, in case it shall be duly certified by inedical certificate, as in the case of other lunatic poor, that such person has become of sound mind or 10 has ceased to be or is not a dangerous lunatic or dangerous idiot: Provided always, That nothing in this provision contained shall apply to any person who, after he or she shall have been committed for' trial, or for default of surety to keep the peace, or after he or she shall have been convicted of any offence, and during his or her 15 imprisonment by reason of such committal or conviction, shall have been removed from any gaol to any such Lunatic Asylum by virtue of a warrant of the said Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors, under the authority of an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the first and second years of the reign of Her 20 present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to make more effectual Provi- c. 27. sion for the Prevention of Offences by Insane Persons in Ireland." 1 & 2 Vict., 6. And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by amended, &c. any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. Act may be this Session. |