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COUNTY HOSPITALS (AMENDMENT) ACT 1767
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CHAP. VIII.
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An Act to amend an Act, made the last Session of Parliament for the erecting and establishing Publick Infirmaries or Hospitals in this Kingdom.
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dignitary with consent of dean and chapter, and corporate bodies, may lease in perpetuity and in reversion for county-hospital 2 acres or one or more houses contiguous.
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WHEREAS by the said act tenants for life are impowered to make see farm grants or leases in perpetuity of any quantity of ground not exceeding two acres for the purpose of erecting a county infirmary or hospital, but no provision is made by the said act to enable archbishops, bishops, governors of charities, or other corporate bodies, to make leases in perpetuity for the same purpose, which has prevented the erecting of infirmaries in several places proper for them: be it 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 it shall and may be lawful for every archbishop, bishop, dignitary, prebendary, having lands belonging to such archbishop, bishop, dignitary, prebendary, near any town, and convenient for the site of any county infirmary, with the consent of his dean and chapter under the common seal, and for the governors of any charity, being a corporate body, and for all other corporate bodies having lands so situated, to make leases under their corporate seals in perpetuity and in reversion on the expiration of any subsisting lease to the respective governors of any county infirmary or hospital, of any quantity of ground not exceeding two acres, or of one or more houses contiguous with each other, at a reasonable rent; which leases the said governors are hereby impowered to take respectively for the erecting an infirmary or hospital for any county, and for converting such house or houses into an infirmary or hospital for any county.
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Thomas Wilkins may be elected as surgeon to Galway infirmary or any other.
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II. And whereas Thomas Wilkins surgeon, who served in the station of master surgeon under the command of Cliston Wintringham, director and physician general at the Havannah, and discharged his duty with ability, assiduity, and integrity, (as the said Cliston Wintringham certifies for him) is now settled in the town of Galway, and hath, since the county infirmary was opened there, attended gratis, and performed several operations as surgeon with great succes, but is prevented by the strict letter of the said act from being elected surgeon to the said infirmary or hospital: be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the governors and governesses of the said hospital and infirmary, or of any other hospital or infirmary, may elect, if they shall think fit so to do, the said Thomas Wilkins as surgeon to the said county infirmary, or to any other hospital or infirmary.
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Physician certified by the college of physicians.
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III. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person shall be appointed physician to any county infirmary, who shall not be examined and certified to be duly qualified under the seal of the King and Queen’s college of physicians in Ireland.
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Trustees for Clare may appoint any place within 3 miles of Ennis.
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IV. And whereas the trustees appointed for regulating the infirmary in the county of Clare, have not yet been able to obtain a proper fire for the said infirmary, and it is apprehended, that no proper place can be found within the bounds prescribed by the said act; be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the said trustees to agree for and appoint any proper place for the site of the said infirmary within three miles of the town of Ennis, the same being the assize town of the said county.
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Infirmary for Donegal at Lifford,
for King’s county at Tullamore.
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V. And whereas by the said act, passed the last session, the infirmary for the county of Donegal was directed to be erected or established in the town of Letterkenny, which has been found an inconvenient situation; and the infirmary of the King’s county was established at Philipstown, which has also been found an inconvenient situation: be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the infirmary or hospital for the said county of Donegal may be erected or established in the town of Lifford, being the county town, and more central and convenient to the best inhabited part of the said county; and that the infirmary of the King’s county may be erected and established at Tullamore, being a more healthy situation.
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John Murphy may be elected surgeon for Kerry, on certificate of the surgeon general and a others if required.
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VI. And whereas John Murphy of the town of Tralee in the county of Kerry surgeon, served several years on board his Majesty’s flect, and is from long experience and practice the fittest and most able in the said county to attend and take care of the infirmary and hospital, now erected or hereafter to be erected and established in the said town of Tralee and county aforesaid, pursuant to the said act: and whereas the governors and governesses thereof, as well as the body of the said county, are unanimously desirous to appoint the said John Murphy to be attending surgeon to the said infirmary, but are disabled from doing so by the strict letter of the said act: be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the governors and governesses of the said infirmary may elect, if they shall think fit so to do, the said John Murphy as surgeon to the said county infirmary, he producing a certificate from the surgeon general in this kingdom, and of two other able surgeons, to be appointed by the said surgeon general of his the said John Murphy’s ability and skill in surgery, if the said governors and governesses of the said infirmary shall require the same; any thing in the said act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
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But removeable as by 5 G. 3. 20. f. 7.
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VII. Provided always, That the said John Murphy, if so elected, shall and may be removeable from the said office in manner as is prescribed by the said act.
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