Cork Infirmary Act 1771

15 subscribers 12 months before elected annually, and added to the trustees as if herein named.

V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said trustees or any five or more of them shall on the first Wednesday, which shall be in the month of July one thousand seven hundred and Seventy two, proceed to elect fifteen fit persons out of such, as at the time of such election shall have been subscribers for the space of twelve calendar months previous to such election towards the support of the said infirmary, and the charitable purposes therein to be carried on, which fifteen persons shall be elected by the majority of the trustees and subscribers to the said infirmary then present in the said infirmary house; and that such fifteen persons so to be elected, added to the trustees herein before named, and shall to all intents and purposes, and as if their names were herein particularly inserted, be deemed and taken to be trustees for the said infirmary from the day next after their being elected until the day next after the first Wednesday, which shall be in the month of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy three, and for no longer time, by virtue of such election; and that the said trustees herein before named, and the trustees from time to time to be elected, pursuant to this act, or any five of them, shall in like manner on the first Wednesday, which shall be in the month of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy three, and on the first Wednesday which shall be in the month of July in every subsequent year, proceed to elect fifteen fit persons out of such persons, as at the time of such election shall have been such subscribers as aforesaid towards the support of the said infirmary, and the charitable purposes therein to be carried on; which fifteen persons shall be elected by the majority of the trustees and subscribers to the said infirmary then present in the said infirmary house; and that such fifteen persons, so from time to time to be elected, shall be added to the trustees herein before named, and shall to all intents and purposes, and as if their names were herein particularly inserted, be deemed and taken to be trustees for the said infirmary from the day next after their being elected until the day next after the first Wednesday, which shall be in the month of July in the year next following the time of their being elected, and for no longer time, by virtue of any one election.