Cork Infirmary Act 1771
CORK INFIRMARY ACT 1771 | ||
CHAP. XXIII. | ||
An Act for establishing an infirmary in the south suburbs of the city of Cork, and to vest an house and front lot of ground in the south suburbs of said city (or any other house or grounds that may be taken) in certain trustees for ever, and to give such trustees such power as may be necessary to promote and execute the purposes of an infirmary in the south suburbs of the city of Cork. | ||
House and front lot of ground in south suburbs of Cork, or any other taken vested in trustees named, for charitable uses, herein mentioned, trustees, | ||
WHEREAS the number of sick increasing in proportion to the inhabitants of the city of Cork has encouraged many benevolent persons to propose founding another charitable infirmary in the south suburbs of the said city: and whereas by a voluntary subscription and some charitable benefactions in hand, together with the offers of gentlemen in physick and surgery and others to assist said charity by their assiduous attendance and aid without fee or reward, they have been enabled to take a large house and front lot of ground in the south suburbs of the said city of Cork in trust for said charity, and at a great expence altered and opened it for the reception of patients, August the second one thousand seven hundred and sixty two: and whereas from that time many * mean, diseased, and infirm poor persons have been received into the house, and duly attended by physicians and surgeons without fee or reward, to the great relief of the poor and benefit of the publick, which said house, from the length of time it has been built, is now in a decayed and ruinous situation: and whereas many benevolent and well disposed inhabitants of said city of Cork are desirous, that the said house and front lot of ground, or any other house or ground in the south suburbs of the city of Cork, that may be thought more convenient, may be purchased or hired by the majority of the trustees herein after mentioned for erecting an hospital on, and shall be vested in the persons herein after named as a body corporate upon the trusts and to the intents herein after mentioned: now to the intent and purpose that the said house and front lot of ground in the south suburbs of said city of Cork, or any other house or ground so taken in the south suburbs of the said city, that may be thought more convenient by the majority of the trustees herein after named, may for ever hereafter be appropriated to the said pious and charitable uses, and for the better carrying into execution the said charitable design, 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 the said house and front lot of ground in said south suburbs of said city, or any other house or buildings which at any time hereafter shall be erected thereon, or said other house or piece of ground in the south suburbs of said city that may be thought more convenient by the majority of the herein after mentioned trustees, and any house or buildings that at any time hereafter may be erected thereon, shall be vested in the several persons herein after named; (that is to say) the most reverend his grace Michael lord archbishop of Cashel, and his successors archbishops of Cashel, the right honourable William earl of Inchiquin, the right honourable Richard carl of Shannon, the right reverend Isaac lord bishop of Cork and Ross, and his successors bishops of Cork and Ross, the right reverend Jemmat Brown late bishop of Cork and Ross, and now bishop of Elphin, the right reverend Charles lord bishop of Ossory, and his successors bishops of Ossory, the right reverend Charles lord bishop of Cloyne, and his successors bishops of Cloyne, the right honourable John Hely Hutchinson, and William Brabazon Ponsonby esquires, representatives in parliament for the said city of Cork, and the representatives in parliament for the said city for the time being, Richard Town-send and John Hyde esquires, knights of the shire for the county of Cork, and the knights of the shire for the said county for the time being, James Dennis esquire, the mayor of the said city of Cork, the recorder of the said city of Cork, the sheriffs of the said city of Cork, all for the time being, Charles Dunbar esquire, John Ponsonby esquire, Richard Longfield esquire, the dean, archdeacon, and chancellor of Cork for the time being, the ministers of the parish of St. Mary Shandon, and his successors for the time being, minister of St. Anne’s parish, and his successors for the time being, the ministers of Christ church and his successors for the time being, the minister of the parish of St. Paul, and his successors for the time being, all in the said city or suburbs thereof, and their successors for the time being, to the intent and purpose, and upon this special trust and confidence, that the said house and front lot of ground, and the buildings that now are or that may be erected thereon, or any other house or ground in the south suburbs of the said city of Cork that shall be thought more convenient by the majority of the said trustees, and all buildings which are or shall be erected thereon, shall for ever hereafter be applied and disposed of to the pious and charitable uses herein mentioned. |