Waterford Infirmary Act 1799

WATERFORD INFIRMARY ACT 1799

CHAP. XVII.

An Act for extending to the County of Waterford, the different Laws passed in this Kingdom for erecting, establishing and regulating of Public Infirmaries or Hospitals.

Tuesday the seventh day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, Royal Assent given.

JOHN GAYER, D. CLER. PARL.

Recital 5 G. 3.

Co. Waterford was not named in said act.

Persons herein named shall be a body politic and corporate, and shall be called the governors of co. Waterford hospital, &c.

Governors may take lands not exceeding 200l. and gifts, subscriptions. &c. in trust.

WHEREAS an act passed in this kingdom in the fifth year of the reign of his present Majesty, entitled, An act for erecting and establishing public infirmaries or hospitals in this kingdom, whereby it is enacted, that receptacles be found for the poor who are infirm and diseased in the several counties, and in the manner therein mentioned, and the said act contains several regulations respecting the management of the said infirmaries or hospitals, and of the said corporations, and for enabling tenants for life to grant in perpetuity, ground, or houses, for such infirmaries or hospitals, and for enabling grand juries to grant presentments to be applied for the use of the said infirmaries or hospitals: And whereas the county of Waterford is not one of the counties named in the said act, in which an infirmary or hospital was by the said act authorized to be erected and established under the provisions therein contained; and it is expedient, that the provisions of the said act, a also of an act passed in the thirty-first year of the reign of his present Majesty, entitled, An act for the further regulation of public infirmaries or hospitals, should be extended to the county of Waterford, and that a public infirmary or hospital shall be erected and established in the said county; be it therefore 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 his grace the lord archbishop of Armagh, the lord high chancellor, the right reverend the lord bishop of Waterford and Lismore, the governor of the county of Waterford, the representatives in parliament for the county of Waterford, the rector and vicar of the parishes of Kilmac-Thomas and Newtown, in the said county of Waterford, all for the time being, and all donors or subscribers to the amount herein after mentioned, shall from and after the passing of this act, for ever, in name, and in fact, be a body politic and corporate, in law, to all intents and purposes, and more especially for the purpose of erecting or establishing a public infirmary or hospital, in the said county of Waterford, which said body politic and corporate shall have perpetual succession, and be called, the governors of the county of Waterford hospital, and shall be enabled to plead and implead, and to sue and be sued by the said name, and shall and may have a common seal for their use, and may without license in mortmain purchase, take, and receive any lands, tenements, or hereditaments whatsoever, not exceeding the value of two hundred pounds, and shall be capable of taking gifts, grants, contributions, and benefactions, and annual subscriptions to any amount in personal property, in trust for the sole use and benefit of the infirmary or hospital of the said county of Waterford, and shall have power to employ the same for the use of the said infirmary or hospital, in such manner as they shall judge proper, unless the donor shall direct the manner of applying such benefaction or subscription for the support of the said infirmary or hospital.