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1 & 2 Vict. c. 56. s. 49.
Religious education of children the religion of whose parents is not known.
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11. And whereas by the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1838, it is provided, that no order of the Commissioners nor any byelaw shall authorize the education of any child in a workhouse in any religious creed other than that professed by the parents or parent of the child, and to which such parents or parent shall object, and in the case of an orphan to which the guardian or guardians, godfather or godmother, shall object; but no such provision is made for the case of a child not being an orphan, the religion of whose parents or parent is unknown: Be it enacted, that in every such last-mentioned case the guardian or guardians, god-father or godmother of the child, shall have the like power to object as the parents or parent of a child would have if living, or as the guardian or guardians, godfather or godmother, would have in the case of an orphan.
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