Cork Infirmary Act 1771

Trustees may take lands 1000l. a year, or any personal, for said infirmary.

VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said trustees for the said infirmary shall and may without licence in mortmain purchase, take, or receive any manors, lands, tenements, annuities, or hereditaments in possession, reversion, or contingency, not exceeding the value of one thousand pounds a year in the whole, of the alienation, gift, or devise of any person or persons having a right, and not being otherwise disabled to alien, grant, or demise the same, who are hereby enabled to transfer and grant the same accordingly, or any goods, chattles, and personal estate whatsoever, as well for the enlarging the said house, rebuilding it, or taking any other house or piece of ground in the fourth suburbs of said city, as the majority of the said trustees should think most convenient, or enlarging or building on the same, as for the relief, support, and maintenance of the maimed, sick, and infirm persons, who are to receive the benefit of the said infirmary.