respective counties, as they shall think fit, specifying the rest. 5. 7. Destitute chil $.9. 23 & 24 Geo. 3. The provisions of this act for restraining and punishing idle and sturdy vagrants, and strolling prostitutes, will fall under consideration in another plase. To create a fund for the support of these establishments, the grand juries of every county, &c. are by s. 9. authorized and required, at every spring assizes, to present in every Presentments county of a city or town, any sum not less than £100. nor for support of more than £200. to be raised from off the lands and these workhorses houses, and any sum not less than £200.. nor more than £400. to be raised as aforesaid in every county at large. By the 23 & 24 Geo. 3. c. 58. Ir. a power is given to the judges of assize, upon proof before them c.58. Ir. upon oath of the insufficiency of the funds of any such corporation, to direct the grand juries to present a further sum not exceeding £100. And by the 46 Geo. 3. c. 95. I. in case it shall be made appear by any mem- L ber of any such corporation, to the satisfaction of the judge of assize before whom the summer assizes shall be held in any year for any county, &c. in Ireland, that the corporation instituted under the 11 & 12 Geo. 3. (supra) is properly regulated and conducted, and that it is expedient to raise any greater sum than was limited by said former acts, for the maintenance of such institutions, or in case a house of industry is in the course of being built to defray the expense of building the same, it shall be lawful for the grand jury of such county, &c. to present any such sum as shall, together with the sums presented 46 Gec. 3. c. 9 Wurds for lunatics and idiots. S. 8. Ir. presented under the said former acts, amount in any county of a city or town to a sum not less than £400.; nor more than £500; and in any county at large to a sum not less than £500. nor more than £700. And this act, s. 2. authorizes grand juries to present such sum not exceeding £100. to be raised off the county at large, as shall appear to be necessary; for the support of any lunatic asylum, or ward for the reception and support of idiots and insane persons, which shall be connected with or under the direction of any house of industry, if no 27 Geo. 3, c.39. presentment shall have been made under the 27 Geo. 3. c. 39. s. 8. Ir. which (as already stated, page 190), also empowered grand juries to present at the spring and summer assizes; such sum as should appear necessary for providing and supporting a ward or wards, in county infirmaries, for such idiots and insane persons as should be recommended by 2 magistrates of any such county, as being idiots, &c. and destitute of support. As a further means of supporting these workhouses or 11 & 12 Geo. 3. houses of industry, it is provided by the 11 & 12 Geo. 3: c. 30. s. 11. Ir. that the rectors, vicars, and incumbents of parishes, shall permit such clergymen of the established religion, as these corporations shall appoint, to preach sermons in their churches in every year, on such days as said corporations shall appoint, on behalf of these institutions, and to permit collections to be then made for these charitable purposes. 30. s. 11. Ir. Foundlings. 11 & 12 Geo. 3. c. 15. Ir. 13 & 14 Geo. 3. c. 24. Ir. The 11 & 12 Geo. 3. c. 15. Ir. as amended by the 13 & 14 Geo. 3. c. 24. Ir. has also provided for the protection and support of poor exposed infants or foundlings, of the age of 12 months or under, by appointing overseers to be chosen in every parish, within the cities of Ireland, (except Dublin and Cork, which have their peculiar statutes) who are empowered to raise upon the respective parishes, such sums as shall be necessary for the maintenance and education of such children, not exceeding £5. for each child, to be raised like other parish cesses, and to be assessed upon the inhabitants in such cities according to the value of their houses. And such foundling tax may be raised by presentment at the next assizes after any default of any parish. The maries or hos Jr. governors and tutions. s. 6. The Irish legislature has also humanely provided by the County infirGeo. 3. c. 20. Ir. (which is amended by the 36 Geo. 3. pituls. e. 9. Ir.) for the establishment of hospitals or infirmaries 5 Geo. 3. c. 20. in the several counties of Ireland, by erecting corpo- 36Geo.3.c,9.Ir. rations, to consist of the primate, lord chancellor, bishop of the diocese, and the rector or vicar of the parish, as also of donors of any sum not less than 20 guineas, and of such persons as shall annually subscribe and pay 3 guineas; which several corporations are to be called the governors and governesses of the respective county in- Corporation of firmaries or hospitals, and are declared capable of pur- governesses. chasing, taking or receiving any lands, &c. not exceeding the annual value of £200. and benefactions to any amount in personal property: and the grand juries of the respective counties are by s. 6. empowered to present any sum not exceeding £100. nor under £50, which sums Presentments are to be raised upon each county at large, and to be ap- for these instiplied by the governors and governesses in providing food, medicines, and other necessaries for the patients, in repairing the respective buildings and furniture thereof, and in paying the rents of the several infirmaries or hospitals. By the 47 Geo. 3. st. 2. c. 50. I. the provisions of 47 Geo. 3. st. 2. the 5 Geo. 3. c. 20. Ir. are extended to counties of cities and counties of towns, in respect to which no special provision is made by any act. And the 45 Geo. 3. c. 111. I. has 45Geo.3.c 111. further provided, that it shall be lawful for the grand jury of every county in Ireland to present to be raised on the county at large, a sum not exceeding £500, in the year, over and above the sum which they are empowered to present by the 5 Geo. 3. (supra), for the support and maintenance of each county infirmary, provided however that a like affidavit and account by the physician and treasurer, as is required, by the 25 Geo. 3. c. 39. Ir. 25 Geo. 3. c.39. of the number of patients received and relieved, and of the state of the funds and expenses of the infirmary, shall be laid before the grand jury previous to any such presentment. And by the 47 Geo. 3. st. 1. c. 44. I. the 47 Geo. 3. st. 1. grand jury of any county, &c. in Ireland may, at any spring or summe. assizes, present such sum, not exceed- Fever hospitals. ing £100. as shall be necessary for the support of any fever c. 50. 1. Ir. c. 44. I. s. 6. & 8. 1. firmaries to be fever hospital in such county, &c. to be raised off the county at large. The commissioners of imprest accounts 46 Geo. 3. c. 95. are authorized by the 46 Geo.3. c. 95. s. 6. & 8. I. to exercise all such powers for obtaining of the accounts, statements, Accounts of in- and returns by this act, (s. 6.) required to be made, relating to the several infirmaries and hospitals in Ireland, and in examining and stating the accounts of the receipt and expenditure, and of the debts and credits of such infirmaries and hospitals, as are vested in said com45Geo.3.c.111. missioners by the 23 & 24 Geo. 3. c. 26. I. The 45 Geo. 3. c. 111. s. 3. I. recites that the distance of many Laid before commissioners of imprest accounts. s. 3. L. saries. County dispen- parts of each county from the infirmary therein establihed, does not allow to the poor of those parts the advantages which the infirmary was proposed to afford, and enacts that where any such corporation shall certify to the grand jury of the county, that they have received from private subscription or donation, any sum since the preceding assizes, for the purpose of establishing in any town or place therein, a dispensary for furnishing medicine and giving medical aid to the poor, it shall be lawful for such grand jury to present to be raised on the county at large, a sum equal to the sum so received, to be applied in providing medicines or medical or surgical aid for the poor of such town or place and its neighbourhood, in such manner as the governors and governesses, or a committee of them not fewer than 5, appointed at a quarterly meeting, shall deem most advisable, and all monies so raised by presentment, or received from private subscription, &c. shall be accounted for upon oath at each summer assizes. And by s. 4. every subscriber of one guinea toward the establishment or maintenance of any such local dispensary, or towards the county hospital or infirmary, shall be a member of the body corporate for the infirmary of such county for one year from such payment, so far as relates to the management and direction of such local dispensary. CHAP, CHAP. X. Of the People, whether Aliens, Denizens, or Natives. THE classification of the people into aliens, denizens, senters, or ca. § 1. and natives, leads to the consideration of the statutes, Natives, whether which prescribe certain forms of oaths and declarations protestants, disto be taken and subscribed by the several classes of tholics. aliens and native subjects, as tests of fidelity to the king, and as renunciations of tenets and principles hostile to the settlement of the crown, and subversive of the protestant religion and government; and which were calculated also to confine the offices of trust and power to those, who were conceived to be best disposed to uphold the establishments in church and state. giance. The present form of the oath of allegiance, as esta- Oath of alleblished by the 1 Geo. 1. st. 2. c. 13. Eng. was taken from 1 Geo. 1. st. 2. the 1 W. & M. st. 1. c. 8. Eng. which abrogated the c. 13. Eng. old oath, as prescribed by the 3 Jac. 1. c. 4. Eng. and is in the following words: "I, A. B. do sincerely pro"mise and swear, that I will be faithful, and bear true "allegiance to his majesty king George. So help me God." ration. Eng. The oath of abjuration was first required to be taken in Oath of abju England by the 13 W. 3. c. 6. Eng. but was afterwards altered by the 1 Ann. st. 1. c. 22. 5 Ann. c. 8. 6 Ann. 6Gen. 3. c. 53. c. 7. 1 Geo. 1. st. 2. c. 13. and was settled by the 6 Geo. 3. c. 53. Eng. according to its present form, viz. “I, A. B. do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify, and declare, in my conscience, before God ❝ and the world, that our sovereign lord king George is "lawful and rightful king of this realm, and all other "his majesty's dominions and countries thereunto be❝longing. And I do solemnly and sincerely declare, "that I do believe in my conscience, that not any "of the descendants of the person, who pretended "to be prince of Wales during the life of the late king James the second, and since his decease pre"tended to be, and took upon himself the stile "and title of, king of England, by the name of "James VOL. I. U |