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Commissioners may visit and regulateschools of private foundation and endowment.
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15. And whereas there are in different parts of Ireland various other schools of private foundation and endowments, many of which are mentioned and specified in the twelfth and thirteenth reports of the said commissioners appointed under the said recited Act of the forty-sixth year aforesaid for enquiry into the several funds and revenues granted for the purposes of education, and into the state and condition of all schools in Ireland; and some of the said schools are possessed of considerable estates in land and other property, with respect to the application of which for the purposes of the several schools, and to carry into effect the intentions of the founders, certain regulations may be required: Be it therefore enacted, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the commissioners under this Act, for the purpose of examining into the management of the funds of such private schools, and the due application of the same, to visit and regulate all such schools of private foundation and endowment in Ireland, as are endowed and supported by the bequests or donations of the founders thereof, or are assisted by any parliamentary grants from time to time; except always such private schools as are supported by the voluntary occasional contributions of private individuals and which have no settled or permanent funds or endowments; and except also all schools of private foundation for the education of persons professing any religion or religious persuasion, other than that of the United Church of England and Ireland.
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