City of Cork Act 1735
CITY OF CORK ACT 1735 | ||
CHAP. XXV. | ||
An Act for rebuilding the cathedral church of St. Finbarry in the city of Cork, and for erecting a work-house in the city of Cork for employing and maintaining the poor, punishing of vagabonds, and providing for and educating foundling children. | ||
A perpetual corporation erected in Cork. | ||
WHEREAS the cathedral church of St. Finbarry in the city of Cork was by length of time grown so ruinous and decayed, that it was not safe for the inhabitants of the said parish to attend divine service therein; whereby it became absolutely necessary to pull down the same in order to have it rebuilt: and whereas the economy of the dean and chapter belonging to the said cathedral by reason of the smallness of its fund, and the inhabitants of the said parish by reason of their poverty are unable to support the whole charge of rebuilding the said cathedral church: and whereas the necessity, number, and continual increase of the poor and idle vagrants within the city of Cork, and the county and liberties of the said city, (many of whom are able to work and earn their bread) is very great, and become exceeding burthensome for want of work-houses to set them at work, and a sufficient authority to compel them thereto, and to regulate them therein: and whereas the mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty of the city of Cork for the encouragement of so necessary and charitable a work are willing to appropriate a convenient piece of ground for a work-house in the said city: 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 from and immediately after the first day of May one thousand seven hundred and thirty six there be and shall be a corporation to continue for ever within the county of the city of Cork; which corporation shall consist of the several persons herein after mentioned: (that is to say) the lord bishop of Cork for the time being, the mayor, recorder, aldermen, sheriffs, common council-men, and common speaker of the said city, together with twenty six persons of the commonalty of the said city (exclusive of the common council-men and common speaker) to be elected annually by the mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty of the said city, or the major part of them, in their open court of Doyer hundred assembled on every last Monday in the month of April. |