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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.
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The annual salary of 100l. for physician and chirurgeon appropriated to the general fund,
the present physicians and chirurgeons appointed,
may elect on vacancy,
in other respects subject to like rules as the other county hospitals in said act.
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II. Provided always, that the annual sum or salary of one hundred pounds, usually granted to the physician and surgeon, be paid and appropriated to the maintenance and general fund for necessaries in said hospital, and that in all other respects said hospital shall be subject to the like rules and regulations as the other county hospitals in said act mentioned, save only that the present physicians and chirurgeons of said Meath hospital shall be appointed the physicians and chirurgeons of said intended infirmary for the county of Dublin; and that it may be lawful for said physicians and chirurgeons, or a majority of them, to elect a physician or chirurgeon in the room of any physician or chirurgeon, who from time to time by death; removal, or otherwise shall make a vacancy in said hospital, in consideration of their having served said hospital gratis these seventeen years past, and their having had a principal share in the support thereof during that period, and in erecting said building, as well as the relinquishing in behalf of themselves and their successors in said hospital all claim or title to the annual salary of one hundred pounds, which they otherwise would be intitled to in consequence of said act; any thing heretofore or in said act mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding.
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