(Ireland.) A BIL L To continue an Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her present Majesty, for amending the Law relative to Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland. [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] 5 WHERE as an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament Preamble: c. 123. holden in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Her 5 & 6 Vict., present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for amending, until the First day of August One thousand eight hundred and Forty-five, and until the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Law relating to Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland:" And whereas it is expedient to continue the same for a limited period; Be it therefore Enacted, by The QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com10 mons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT the said recited Act shall be and continue in full force and effect until the Thirty-first day of July in the year One thousand eight hundred and Forty-seven, or if Parliament be then sitting, until the End of the then Session of Parliament. 1. Recited Act continued until the 31st of July 1847, or the End of the then Session. 2. And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by Act may be any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. amended, &c. this Session. (Ireland.) A BIL L To amend the Laws as to District Lunatic Asylums in Ireland; to provide for the Expense of the Maintenance of certain Lunatic Poor removed from the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, Dublin, for Want of Room therein; and to provide for the Salaries and Expenses incident to the Office of Inspector of Lunatics in Ireland. [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] 5 10 1 & 2 G. 4, HEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament Preamble: holden in the first and second years of the reign of his late Majesty King GEORGE the Fourth, intituled, "An Act to make more effectual Provision for the Establishment of Asylums for the c. 33. Lunatic Poor, and for the Custody of Insane Persons charged with Offences in Ireland," certain provisions were made for the erection and establishment of Lunatic Asylums in and for districts to be limited and appointed in manner and by the authority in the said Act mentioned: And whereas by an Act passed in the eleventh year of the reign of 11 G. 4, c. 22. his said late Majesty, intituled, "An Act for appropriating the Richmond Lunatic Asylum in Dublin to the Purposes of a District Lunatic Asylum," it was among other things enacted, that a certain building commonly known by the name of the Richmond Lunatic 15 Asylum, in the city of Dublin, theretofore established and used as an Asylum or Hospital for the reception and management of lunatic patients, should and might be and become, and the same has accordingly 499. A 1. The sums expended by the Poor Law Commissioners in supporting the Lunatic Poor removed to an Hospital from Richmond Lunatic Asylum, Dublin, for want of room, to be raised by the Districts liable therefor, and repaid to the said Commissioners. accordingly become, a Lunatic Asylum for the county of the city of Dublin, and for such other county or counties as, from time to time, under the provisions of the said first-recited Act of the first and second years of his late Majesty, constituted, together with the said city of Dublin, a District of a Lunatic Asylum: 5 And whereas, in consequence of the number of lunatic poor whose cases urgently required admission into the Richmond Lunatic Asylum it became necessary, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and Forty-four, to remove a certain number of the lunatic poor then being inmates of the said Asylum, and whose cases did not so urgently 10 require their residence therein, to an Hospital or Asylum at Island Bridge, in the county of Dublin, connected with and attached to the House of Industry in the city of Dublin, and such lunatic poor so removed have been kept superintended and maintained in the said Hospital, and the expenses of such care, superintendence and maintenance have been defrayed by the Poor Law Commissioners out of certain funds in their hands applicable to the purposes of the said House of Industry: 15 And whereas it is expedient that the sum so defrayed and expended should be repaid to the said Commissioners, and that 20 the expense of the future care, superintendence and maintenance of such lunatic poor so removed (whilst they continue as inmates of such Hospital) should be provided for by the county, counties or district which would have been or would be respectively chargeable in respect of them, in case they remained as inmates of the said Richmond Asylum; 25 30 BE it therefore Enacted, by The QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT the amount of the sums so heretofore defrayed or expended by the said Poor Law Commissioners in and for the care, superintendence and maintenance of the said lunatic poor so removed to the said Hospital, and of all sums to be hereafter from time to time duly defrayed or expended by the said Poor Law Commissioners in and for the care, superin- 35 tendence and maintenance in the said Hospital of the said lunatic poor, or any other lunatic poor who, with the consent of the Poor Law Commissioners and of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, may be removed from the said Richmond Lunatic Asylum, or from the district thereof to the said Hospital whilst they shall continue therein, to be ascertained by any order of the Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, and Privy Council in Ireland, shall be raised off and provided for and 40 |