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IRISH MUSICAL FUND ACT 1794
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CHAP. XX.
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An Act for securing a Capital Stock, belonging to the Members of the Irish Musical-Fund, applicable to charitable Purposes.
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In January 1787, a subscription was begun for support of infusion musicians, &c.
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By subscriptions and musical performances, about 1000l. is lodged with the Kight Hen D. Latouche, for said purposes.
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Subscribers declared a body corporate &c.
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to see and be sued by the name of “the Irish musical fund:”
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and to receive all sums, for said purposes;
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and may purchase lands, &c not exceeding 500l. a year at the time, and may dispose of same.
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WHEREAS some time in the month of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, a subscription was begun in the city of Dublin, amongst the professors of musick, towards the charitable purpose of establishing a fund for the support of such professors, belonging to the said society, as through age, infirmity, or accident, should be rendered incapable of earning a sufficiency to support themselves and their families, and for the occasional relief of professors belonging to the said society in case of sickness; and also for the relief and support of the widows and children of such deceased professors as did belong to the said society: and whereas by the profits arising from such subscription, and also by the profits which have arisen from some musical publick performances for the increase of said fund, a capital stock to the amount of one thousand pounds, or thereabouts, is now lodged in the hands of the right honourable David Latouche, the treasurer to the said society, applicable to the purposes aforesaid: to the end therefore, that the said fund and the growing produce thereof may be effectually secured and applied; be it enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and content of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the passing this act, all and every the subscribers to the said fund, for the time being, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be one body-corporate and politick, in deed and in name; and shall be called by the name of the Irish Musical-fund, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and a common seal, and that they and their successors by the same name, may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and be answered unto in all or any court or courts of record, and places of record and judicature within this kingdom of Ireland; and that they and their successors, by the name aforesaid, shall be able and capable in law to have, hold, receive, enjoy, possess, and retain, for the purposes aforesaid, all and every such sum and sums of money as have been, or may hereafter be paid, given, devised or bequeathed to and for the ends and purposes herein before mentioned, and that they and their successors, by the name aforesaid, shall and may at any time hereafter, without license in mortmain, purchase, take or receive, hold and enjoy any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, not exceeding the value of five hundred pounds a year, at the time of such purchase; and shall and may also grant, alien, demise or dispose of the same, or any part thereof, at their free will and pleasure.
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Names of committee, appointed to act until 1st Jan. 1795.
Powers of committee.
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II. And be it further enacted, that from and after the passing this act, Thomas Giordani, the now president, Philip Coogan, the now vice-president, the right honourable David Latouche, the now treasurer, Robert Stokes, the now collector, and George Fitzgerald, the now secretary, together with John Gorman Kennedy, esquire, Andrew Buck, esquire, the reverend Thomas Gamble, Frederick Rhames, Henry Mountain, Anthony Bartoli, Bartholomew Cooke, David Weyman, Thomas Bird, Alexander Thompson, William Adams, Frederick Seafort, and William Stephens, gentlemen, shall, and they are hereby appointed a committee for managing the said fund, until the first day of January, which will be in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five; and that the said committee and their successors, to be elected in manner herein after mentioned, or the majority of such committee, for the time being, shall have full power and authority from time to time, to dispose of the said common seal, and to alter or make new the same, and to direct the use and application thereof, and to make, ordain, and constitute such and so many bye-laws, constitutions, orders, and regulations, as to them, or the major part of them shall seem necessary and convenient, for the appropriation of the said funds, or touching or in any wife concerning the affairs and business of the said society; and the same bye-laws, constitutions, orders, and regulations so made as aforesaid, or any of them, at their will and pleasure, to revoke, change, and alter; and that the said bye-laws, constitutions, orders and regulations, so as aforesaid made, shall be duly kept and observed by the said society, and by every member thereof, provided the same be not contrary or repugnant to the statutes, customs, or laws of this kingdom, or the true intent and meaning of this act.
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Committee may appoint a treasurer, and other officers;
and may remove such;
and make security from treasurer.
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III. And be it further enacted, That the said committee, or the major part of them, at a meeting to be assembled by virtue of this act, may, and they are hereby empowered to appoint a treasurer or treasurers, and such other officers as they shall think necessary for the purposes of this act; and from time to time to remove any such treasurer or other officer or officers, and appoint another or others in his or their stead; and if they, the said committee, or the majority of them shall think fit, they shall and are hereby required to take such security from their treasurer or treasurers, or other officers as shall be adequate to the trust reposed in him or them.
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Members to meet on 1st Jan. 1795, or within ten days alter, to elect a committee;
what the committee shall consist of.
Secretary to summon members to vote at election
Persons so elected shall be the committee for 1795.
Committee elected in like member every year in city of Dublin,
when members of the committee die, or refuse to act, the others may checkin their place.
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IV. And be it further enacted, That the members of the said society, or such of them as shall think fit, shall meet together at some convenient place in the city of Dublin, on the aforesaid first day of January, one-thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, or within ten days after, for the purpose of electing out of their body a new committee for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, which committee shall consist of a president, vice-president, treasurer, collector, and secretary, assisted by thirteen other members, that is to say, nine professors, and four non-professors of music, provided that previous to such election the secretary shall send summonses to all the members of the said society, to be present at such election, and to vote for such persons as they shall think fit; and the said five officers, and the said nine professors, and four non-professors of music so to be elected, shall be the committee for putting this act in execution for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five; and that the members of the said society at large, or such of them as shall think fit, shall in like manner meet together in some convenient place in the city of Dublin, on the first day of January, in every succeeding year, or within ten days after, and elect a committee in the same manner before mentioned for such year; and in case any one or more of the said committee hereby appointed, or to be elected in manner aforesaid, shall die or refuse to act in the execution of this act, the surviving or remaining committee-men shall and may meet together at some convenient place in the city of Dublin, and the major part of such as shall so attend, shall and may elect a committee-man in the room and stead of such committee-man so dying or refusing to act aforesaid; and every committee-man so to be elected in any or either of the cases aforesaid, shall have the same powers and authorities for the purposes of carrying this act into execution, as the committee herein and hereby nominated and appointed, are invested with.
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A publick act.
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V. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be adjudged, deemed, and taken to be a public act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such, by all judges, justices, and other persons whomsoever, without specially pleading the same.
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