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Irish Acts, 12 Eliz. c. 1.
12 Geo. 1. c. 9
29 Geo. 2. c. 7.
Dioceses may be united into one district and the schools consolidated.
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22. And whereas by an Act passed in Ireland in the twelfth year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, intituled “An Act for the erection of free schools,” it was among other things enacted, that there should from thenceforth be a free school within every diocese of Ireland, and that the salary of the schoolmaster therein should be paid, one-third thereof by the ordinary, and the other two-third parts by the parsons, vicars, prebendaries, and other ecclesiastical persons of the same diocese: And whereas further provisions for the more effectual erecting and better regulating of free schools in Ireland were made by two Acts passed in the Parliament of Ireland, the one in the twelfth year of his late Majesty King George the First, and the other in the twenty-ninth year of his late Majesty King George the Second: And whereas it hath happened from various causes that in several dioceses in Ireland such schools are not now duly kept and maintained, and it may be convenient that two or more dioceses should be united for the purpose of keeping and maintaining such schools: Be it therefore enacted, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the commissioners for the time being under this Act, in all cases in which they shall deem it expedient, by and with the consent and approbation of the lord lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland for the time being, by warrant under hand and seal, to direct and declare that any two or more adjoining dioceses in Ireland shall be united into one district, and to direct that the free schools of such two or more dioceses shall be consolidated into one free school, to be thenceforth kept and held in such place within the said dioceses as the said commissioners, with such consent and approbation as aforesaid, shall in and by such warrant direct for that purpose; and thereupon and from thenceforth all and every salaries and salary payable to the schoolmasters of the said several dioceses so united shall from thenceforth be payable to the schoolmaster of such district only for his own sole use; and every such schoolmaster shall have the same right to the said salaries, and the same remedies and advantages for and in respect of the raising, collecting, and enforcing the same respectively, as the several schoolmasters of such dioceses so united would or might respectively have had in case such union had not taken place under or by virtue of the said recited Acts or this Act.
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