Meath Hospital Act 1773
MEATH HOSPITAL ACT 1773 | ||
CHAP. XLIII. | ||
Amended 15 & 16 G. 3. c. 31. s. 2. | ||
An Act for explaining and amending an act passed in the fifth year of his present Majesty’s reign, intitled, an act for erecting and establishing publick infirmaries or hospitals in this kingdom. | ||
Meath Hospital established the county Dublin infirmary as by 5 G. 3. c. 20. | ||
term grand juries may present for use of the hospital by 19 & 20 G. 3. c. 44. s. 21. | ||
WHEREAS by an act passed in the fifth year of his present Majesty’s reign, intitled, an act for erecting and establishing publick infirmaries or hospitals in this kingdom, it is enacted, that receptacles be founded for the poor, who are infirm and diseased, in the several counties and in the manner therein mentioned: and whereas the county of Dublin by mistake or omission hath not been provided for by the said act, and the said county by the great number of infirm and diseased poor therein stands greatly in need of an hospital or infirmary, maintained and established as those of other counties have been by said act: and whereas the several persons, who have at a very considerable expence to themselves by private subscriptions erected at the expence of two thousand pounds and upwards a building situated at a place called the Comb in said county of Dublin, known and called by the name of the Meath Hospital, are willing without fee or reward to give up said building with all its furniture, utensils, and appurtenances to the use of said county for ever: 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 said building, called the Meath Hospital, shall from and after the twenty fourth day of June one thousand seven hundred and seventy four be created and founded, erected, and established the hospital or infirmary for said county of Dublin, and be for ever hereafter deemed and considered to all intents and purposes the hospital for said county, to be endowed with and intitled to all emoluments, rights, liberties, privileges, and advantages, as fully and effectually as any other county hospital in and by said act provided for and mentioned. |