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Appointment and incorporation of commissioners of education in Ireland.
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Whereas many of the abuses in schools on public and private foundations in Ireland and the misapplication of their several funds and revenues have proceeded from the delays, difficulties, and expenses attending the usual way of proceeding in such cases by bill or information in the courts of equity: And whereas it is necessary, for the better regulation of the several endowed schools in Ireland, and for the more efficient control of the conduct of the masters and other persons concerned in the management and direction thereof, that commissioners should be constituted and appointed for the purpose of visiting, regulating, and superintending the management and due application of the funds and revenues of the said schools, as well those of private foundation as those which have been founded and endowed by the Crown, or established and confirmed by the authority of Parliament, or for the maintenance and support of which any sum or sums of money have been at any time granted by Parliament, or been devised or bequeathed by private persons, or in any manner granted or appropriated; excepting such only as are herein-after mentioned and excepted: 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 the lord primate of all Ireland, the lord high chancellor of Ireland, the lord archbishop of Dublin, the lord archbishop of Tuam, all now and hereafter for the time being, and the respective coadjutors of the said primate and archbishops now or hereafter for the time being, the lord chief justice of the Court of King’s Bench in Ireland, and the provost of Trinity College, Dublin, now or hereafter for the time being, and also four of the bishops of Ireland, to be appointed from time to time by the lord lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland for the time being (one bishop for each province in Ireland), together with four other proper and discreet persons whom the lord lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland for the time being shall think fit to appoint to be commissioners under this Act (such four bishops and four other persons so appointed by the lord lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland for the time being to be removable at his or their pleasure), shall be a corporation, and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall be called “The Commissioners of Education in Ireland.”
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