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WATERFORD INFIRMARY ACT 1799
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CHAP. XVII.
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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.
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Tuesday the seventh day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, Royal Assent given.
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JOHN GAYER, D. CLER. PARL.
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Recital 5 G. 3.
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Co. Waterford was not named in said act.
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Persons herein named shall be a body politic and corporate, and shall be called the governors of co. Waterford hospital, &c.
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Governors may take lands not exceeding 200l. and gifts, subscriptions. &c. in trust.
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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.
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Hospital to be erected in town of Kilmac-Thomas.
A donor of 22l. 15s. shall be a governor for life.
A subscriber of 3 guineas shall be a member for a year.
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II. And be it enacted, That the find infirmary or hospital shall be erected or established in the town of Kilmac-Thomas, in the said county of Waterford, on such feite as shall be approved of by the aforesaid corporation, and that every donor of any sum not less than twenty guineas to the said infirmary or hospital, shall be a governor for life; and every person who shall subscribe and pay any sum not less than three guineas for the use of the said infirmary or hospital, shall be a member of the said corporation or body-corporate for one year, from the first day of January next following such subscription or payment.
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Tenants for life may make leases of ground to corporation, not exceeding 2 acres, and of houses contiguous
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III. And be it enacted, That all tenants for life, with remainder to the first and other sons in tail, shall be, and are hereby empowered to make see farm grants or leases, in perpetuity to the said corporation, of any quantity of ground, not exceeding two acres, or of one or more houses contiguous with each other, at the full improved rent, which see farm grant or grants, and lease or leases, the said corporation shall, and are hereby empowered to take for building and erecting the said infirmary or hospital on such ground, or for converting such house or houses into an hospital or infirmary, for the said county.
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G. juries may present from 50l. to 100l. every summer assizes after the infirmary shall be opened.;
application of such money.
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IV. And be it enacted, That the grand jury of the said county of Waterford, shall at the first assizes after the said infirmary or hospital shall be fit for the reception of patients, and at every summer assizes after, present a sum not exceeding one hundred pounds, nor lets than fifty pounds, to be raised on the said county at large, and paid to the treasurer of the said county, to be by him paid over to the treasurer of the said infirmary or hospital, on his drafts or receipts, which drafts or receipts shall be allowed as vouchers to the said county treasurer, on passing his accounts, and which money shall be applied by the governors and governesses of the said infirmary or hospital, in providing food, medicines, and other necessaries, for the patients, in repairing the buildings, and the furniture thereof, and in paying the rents of the said infirmary or hospital.
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Clauses in in. firmary acts, 5 and 31 G. 3. extended to co. Waterford infirmary.
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V. And be it enacted, That all the clauses and restrictions contained in the said recited acts of the fifth and of the thirty-first years of his present Majesty, as to the mode of electing surgeons, removing and regulating the conduct of the treasurer and servants, as to the qualifications of the persons to be appointed, as to the salaries to be paid to each of them, as to the quorum and meetings of governors, mode and powers of acting in the several cases pointed out by the said recited acts, admission of patients, and the mode by which governors are enabled to compel treasurers to account, shall extend, and be deemed, construed, and taken to extend to the said infirmary of the county of Waterford, in as full and ample manner, to all intents and purposes, as if the same had been included in the said herein before recited acts.
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Several penalties inflicted by different statutes are directed to be handed to governors of infirmaries:
When such penalties shall be levied in the co. Waterford, they shall be handed over to the governors or their treasurer.
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VI. And whereas by several different statutes enacted in this kingdom, several penalties are enacted and inflicted to be levied front persons committing the different offences specified in the said acts respectively, which said penalties, or a proportion thereof when levied, are by the said statutes directed to be handed to the governors of the infirmary of the county in which the offence was committed, or their treasurer, for the use of the said infirmary of the said county, be it enacted, That all penalties and forfeitures inflicted by any act or acts heretofore passed, or such proportion or share of such penalties or forfeitures as shall hereafter arise, accrue, or become forfeited or payable within the county of Waterford, and which when levied is, or are by the said acts, or any of them, directed to be paid to the governors or governesses of the county infirmary, or their treasurer, or to be in any manner applied to or for the use of the of the county infirmary, shall be paid to the said corporation hereby created, or to their treasurer, and shall be vested in the said corporation, and may be sued for and recovered by them as fully, to all intents and purposes, as if the county of Waterford had been included in the said recited acts of the fifth and thirty-first years of his present Majesty, and that an infirmary had been erected and established within the said county, under the said acts, previous to the passing of the several laws enacting or creating the said respective penalties.
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