Short Title of Act. Interpretation of Terms. Appointment of Officers for Asylums heretofore made to be valid. Lord Lieutenant and Council to fix Establishment. Governors ries. is expedient to remove such Doubts, and to explain and amend the said Acts: Be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows: I. In citing this Act for any Purpose whatever it shall be sufficient to use the Expression "The Lunatic Asylums, Ireland, Act, 1856." 5 II. In the Interpretation of this Act, save where there is anything in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction, the Words "Lord Lieutenant" shall mean and include the Chief Governor or 10 Governors of Ireland; the Words "Lord Lieutenant and Council' shall mean the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, by and with the Advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland; "Asylums" shall mean "Asylums for the Lunatic Poor" established under the said recited Acts; and the Word "Officer" 15 shall mean and include Managers, Chaplains, Physicians, Surgeons, Apothecaries, Matrons, Attendants, and Servants. III. All Appointments of Officers for such Asylums, and all Salaries of such Officers fixed or granted, and all Matters and Things heretofore done by the Lord Lieutenant or by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, 20 with respect to such Appointments, shall be and remain good, valid, and effectual, but subject to the Powers and Provisions herein-after contained. IV. The Lord Lieutenant and Council shall from Time to Time, in the Case of every such Asylum established or to be hereafter 25 established, fix and determine the Number and Description of Officers for every such Asylum. V. The Governors of such Asylums shall from Time to Time, to fix Sala- subject to the Approbation of the Lord Lieutenant in Council, fix the Salaries to be paid to such Officers respectively; but if the Governors 30 shall neglect so to do, or if the Lord Lieutenant in Council shall disapprove of the Salary proposed for any Officer, it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant in Council to fix and determine the same. Governors may alter Salaries. Manager, Matron, and VI. It shall be lawful for the Governors, with the Approval of the Lord Lieutenant in Council, from Time to Time to alter the Salaries 35 to be paid to such Officers respectively. VII. The Manager, Matron, and Visiting Physician of every such Asylum shall be from Time to Time appointed by the Lord Lieutenant, appointed by and, whether now holding Office or hereafter to be appointed, shall be removable at the Pleasure of the Lord Lieutenant. Lord Lieu tenant. 40 VIII. All (No. 2.) A BILL [AS AMENDED IN COMMITTEE] ΤΟ Explain and amend the Acts relating to Lunatic W HEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament Preamble. holden in the First and Second Years of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act to make 1 & 2 G. 4. more effectual Provision for the Establishment of Asylums for the c.33. 5" Lunatic Poor and for the Custody of Insane Persons charged with "Offences in Ireland;" and the said Act was amended by the following Acts; that is to say, an Act of the Session holden in 6 G. 4. c. 54. the Sixth Year of His Majesty King George the Fourth, Chapter Fifty-four; an Act of the Session holden in the Seventh Year of His 7 G. 4. c. 14. 10 Majesty King George the Fourth, Chapter Fourteen; an Act of the 11 G. 4. & Session holden in the Eleventh Year of His Majesty, King George 1 W. 4. c.22. the Fourth, Chapter Twenty-two; an Act of the Session holden in 8 & 9 Vict. the Eighth and Ninth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred c.107. and seven; an Act of the Session holden in the Ninth and Tenth 9 & 10 Vict. 15 Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and fifteen; and an Act of the Session holden in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of 18 & 19 Vict. Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and nine: and it is expedient to explain and amend the said Acts: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of c. 115. c. 109. Short Title of Act. Interpretation of Terms. Appointment of Officers for Asylums heretofore made to be valid. Governors to fix Establishment. Governors ries. Governors may alter Salaries. the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: I. In citing this Act for any Purpose whatever it shall be sufficient to use the Expression "The Lunatic Asylums, Ireland, Act, 1856.” II. In the Interpretation of this Act, save where there is anything 5 in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction, the Words "Lord Lieutenant" shall mean and include the Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland; the Words "Lord Lieutenant and Council" shall mean the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, by and with the Advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council 10 in Ireland; "Asylums" shall mean "Asylums for the Lunatic Poor" established under the said recited Acts; and the Word "Officer" shall mean and include Managers, Chaplains, Physicians, Surgeons, Apothecaries, Matrons, Attendants, and Servants. III. All Appointments of Officers for such Asylums, save and except 15 all such Appointments as have been decided by the Court of Queen's Bench to have been illegal, and all Salaries of such Officers fixed or granted, and all Matters and Things heretofore done by the Lord Lieutenant or by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, with respect to such Appointments, shall be taken to be good, valid, and effectual, 20 but subject to the Provisions herein-after contained. IV. The Governors of each Asylum, with the Approbation of the Lord Lieutenant and Council, shall from Time to Time, in the Case of every such Asylum established or to be hereafter established, fix and determine the Number and Description of Officers 25 for every such Asylum. V. The Governors of such Asylums shall from Time to Time, subject to the Approbation of the Lord Lieutenant in Council, fix the Salaries to be paid to such Officers respectively; but if the Governors shall neglect so to do, or if the Lord Lieutenant in Council shall 30 not consider the Salary proposed for any Office to be fair and reasonable, it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant in Council to fix and determine the same. VI. It shall be lawful for the Governors, with the Approval of the Lord Lieutenant in Council, from Time to Time to alter the Salaries 35 to be paid to such Officers respectively. All other VII. All Officers of every such Asylum shall be from Time to Officers apTime appointed and be removable by the Governors, subject to the pointed by Governors. Approval of the Lord Lieutenant. VIII. It |