Grand Jury (Ireland) Act, 1836

Presentment for building, &c. diocesan schools and school houses.

53 Geo. 3. c. 107.

96. It shall and may be lawful for the grand jury of any county in which any diocesan school or district school, or the site appointed for the same, shall be situate, to present, to be levied off such county, any sum or sums which they shall think proper for purchasing, providing, building, or repairing any such schoolhouse, or a dwelling house for the master thereof, or any of the offices or appurtenances properly belonging to such school-house or dwelling house, or for purchasing or procuring a site for the same, not exceeding the quantity of two plantation acres: Provided always, that whenever any grand jury shall make such presentment for any schoolhouse or dwelling house as and for the schoolhouse of the diocese only within which such county shall be situate, or as and for the dwelling house of the schoolmaster of such diocesan school only, such diocese shall not be or remain united to or with any other diocese under any of the provisions of an Act passed in the fifty-third year of his Majesty King George the Third, intituled “An Act for the appointment of commissioners for the regulation of the several endowed schools of public and private foundations in Ireland,” but such diocesan school shall be supported within its proper diocese only and the money raised in such diocese shall be applied solely and entirely to the use of such diocesan school, and not to any district school or other school out of such diocese.

[Ss. 97–100 rep. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 37.]