County Hospitals Act 1765
COUNTY HOSPITALS ACT 1765 | ||
CHAP. XX. | ||
An Act for erecting and establishing Publick Infirmaries or Hospitals in this Kingdom. | ||
Amended by 13 & 14 G. 3. c 43. | ||
15 & 16 G. 3. c. 31. | ||
17 & 18 G. 3. c. 15. and extended by 21 & 22 G. 3. c. 13. and by 25 G. 3. c. 39. s. 40. | ||
The Primate, lord Chancellor, rector or vicar, a perpetual corporation for establishing publick infirmaries in certain counties, | ||
erected as appointed by the respective corporation in the county towns, or not above 1 mile from the court house. | ||
counties excepted, wherein erected in particular places named. | ||
WHEREAS providing receptacles in the several counties of this kingdom herein after mentioned for the poor, who are infirm and diseased, would be a means of restoring the health and preserving the lives of many of his Majesty’s subjects, of promoting labour and industry, and of encouraging the manufactures of this kingdom: be it enacted by the King’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 his grace the archbishop of Armagh, the lord high chancellor for the time being, the bishop of the diocese and rector or vicar of the parish for the time being, wherein any such infirmary or hospital, as is herein after mentioned, shall be situated, shall from and after the twenty fourth day of June one thousand seven hundred and sixty six, within their several and respective counties, for ever in name and fact be several bodies politick and corporate in law to all intents and purposes, and more especially for the purpose of erecting or establishing publick infirmaries or hospitals in the several and respective counties herein after mentioned (that is to say) in the counties of Armagh, Cavan, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, Monaghan, Tyrone, Carlow, Kilkenny, King’s County, Longford, Lowth, Leitrim, Queen’s County, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow, Clare, Kerry, Limerick, Galway, Roscommon, and Sligo; the said several infirmaries or hospitals to be erected or established in such places respectively, as shall be approved of by the respective corporations of said counties, in the several and respective county towns, or at a distance not exceeding one mile from the court house in the county town of each and every of the said counties; excepting the counties of Meath, Antrim, Donegal Kildare, Cork, Mayo, and Tipperary; the infirmaries or hospitals for the said last mentioned counties, to be erected and established in the several and respective towns hereinafter mentioned; (that is to say) the infirmary or hospital for the county of Meath to be erected or established in the town of Navan in that county; for the county of Antrim in the town of Lisburne in that county; for the county of Cork in the town of Mallow in that county; for the county of Mayo in the town of Castlebar in that county; for the county of Donegal in the town of Letterkenny in that county; for the county of Kildare in the town of Kildare in that county; for the county of Tipperary in the city of Cashel in that county. |