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Lord lieutenant may direct any number of asylums for the lunatic poor in Ireland to be erected and established in districts consisting either of two or more counties, or of one county only.
Capacity of asylums.
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2. It shall and may be lawful for the lord lieutenant by and with the advice and consent of his Majesty’s privy council in Ireland, to direct and order that any number of asylums for the lunatic poor in Ireland shall be erected and established in and for such districts in Ireland, as to the said lord lieutenant and privy council shall seem expedient; and that every such district shall and may consist either of the whole of two or more counties, or of one or more county or counties, and one or more county or counties of cities or towns, or of one county, or county of a city, or county of a town only, and no more; but shall not in any case include part only of any county, county of a city or town; and that all lunatic poor within every such district respectively shall be maintained and taken care of in the asylum belonging to such district; and that every such asylum established or to be established for any district consisting of more than one county, or one county of a city or county of a town, shall be sufficient to contain such number of lunatic poor, not being less than one hundred . . . in any one asylum, as shall seem expedient in such lord lieutenant and privy council; and that where any such district shall consist of only one county or county of a city or county of a town, and no more, every such asylum shall be sufficient to contain such number of lunatic poor, not being less than fifty, as shall seem expedient to such lord lieutenant and privy council; and every order of council to be made for any such purpose shall be published in the Dublin Gazette.
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