40 G. 3. (I.) 'Lord Keeper of Ireland, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of 'King's Bench in Ireland, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of 'Common Pleas in Ireland, and the Lord Chief Baron of the 'Court of Exchequer in Ireland, for the Time being, together ⚫ with certain other Persons therein named, and the Persons there' after to be elected in the Manner by the said Act directed, should be Trustees for the Purpose of establishing, endowing, and 'maintaining One Academy for the Education only of Persons professing the Roman Catholic Religion, and that the said Trustees should have full Power and Authority to receive Subscriptions and Donations to enable them to establish and 'endow an Academy for the Education of Persons professing the Roman Catholic Religion, and to purchase and acquire Lands not exceeding the annual Value of One thousand Pounds, and 'to erect and maintain all such Buildings as might be by the said Trustees deemed necessary for the lodging and Accommodation ' of the President, Masters, Professors, Fellows, and Students who 'should from Time to Time be admitted into or reside in said Academy; and it was further enacted, that it should and might 'be lawful for any Popish Ecclesiastic to officiate in a Chapel or Building to be appointed for that Purpose by the said Trustees or any Seven or more of them, any Law, Statute, or Provision to the contrary notwithstanding: And whereas by an Act amend 'ing the said Act, and passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Fortieth Year of His said late Majesty King George the Third, 'intituled An Act for the better Government of the Seminary ' established at Maynooth for the Education of Persons professing the Roman Catholic Religion; and for amending the Laws now in force respecting the said Seminary, after reciting that a College or Seminary had been established at Maynooth for the 'Education of Persons professing the Popish or Roman Catholic 'Religion, and that large Sums of Money had been granted to the Trustees named in the Act herein-before recited, to enable ' them to improve and extend the said Institution, and that it had 'become necessary to make further Provision for the good Government of the said College or Seminary, it was amongst other things enacted, that the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper ' of the Great Seal, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's 'Bench, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer should cease to be Trustees for carrying the said first-recited Act into execution, and that their Successors in the said Offices respectively should not thereafter be Trustees by virtue of the said first-recited Act for carrying it ' into execution, and that the other Persons named in the said 'first-recited Act in that Behalf, or such other Persons as had been elected or thereafter should be elected to fill any Vacancy 'occasioned by the Death, Removal, or Resignation of any such 'Persons respectively, should continue Trustees for the Execution of the said first-recited Act, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the said Act now in recital had not been enacted: And whereas by a certain other Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King 48 G. 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George the Third, intituled An Act to amend Two Acts passed 6 'in Ireland for the better Education of Persons professing the • Roman Catholic Religion, and for the better Government of the • Seminary established at Maynooth for the Education of such Persons, so far as relates to the Purchase of Lands and com'pounding Suits, it was amongst other things enacted, that it should be lawful for the Trustees for the Time being of the said College or Academy, or any Seven or more of them, to purchase or acquire Lands not exceeding in Value the annual Sum of One thousand Pounds, exclusive of the Value of Lands and Premises 'held under a Lease from William Robert late Duke of Leinster, and the Buildings thereon or thereafter to be erected, and used for the Purposes of the said College or Academy; and it was provided and further enacted, that any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments already purchased or acquired under or by virtue ' of the Power for that Purpose given to the said Trustees or any Seven or more of them in and by the said herein-before firstrecited Act should be deemed Part of the Lands which they were so authorized to purchase or acquire as aforesaid, and that no more Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments should be purchased or acquired by the said Trustees or any Seven or more of them than what, together with any Lands already purchased or acquired by them, would amount to the annual Value of One thousand Pounds: And whereas it is productive of Inconvenience and Insecurity that the said Trustees can take no effectual Grants of Lands for the Purposes of the said College or Seminary to them and their Successors; and it is therefore expedient that 'the said Trustees should be incorporated:' Be it therefore 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, That the Trustees of the said College or Trustees of the Seminary, and their Successors for ever, shall be One Body Politic College of Mayand Corporate by the Name of "The Trustees of the College of nooth incorMaynooth," and by that Name shall have perpetual Succession and a Common Seal, and by that Name shall and may sue and be sued, and shall have and possess the several Powers and Authorities vested in the said Trustees under the said recited Acts. porated. Personal Pro perty, and also II. And be it enacted, That the said Body Politic and Corpo- Such Corporate rate, and their Successors, by the said Name, shall be for ever Body may take able and capable in Law to take, purchase, receive, possess, hold, and possess any and enjoy to them and their Successors any Goods or Chattels or Personal Property whatsoever, and also be able and capable in Lands not exLaw (notwithstanding the Statutes in Mortmain) to take, purchase, ceeding the anhold, and enjoy to them and their Successors any Messuages, nual Value of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments whatsoever the yearly Value 3,000l., excluof which shall not exceed in the whole the Sum of Three thousand sive of the ProPounds, exclusive of the Value of any Lands, Tenements, or acquired by the perty already Hereditaments already purchased or acquired by the said Trus- Trustees. tees; and it shall be lawful for all and every Person and Persons, and Bodies Politic and Corporate, otherwise competent, to grant, sell, alien, and convey in Mortmain unto and to the Use of the said Body Politic and Corporate incorporated by this Act any Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments not exceeding in the whole such annual Value as aforesaid. III. And Lands, &c. now possessed by the Trustees of Maynooth College to vest in the said Body Politic, &c. Provision made for Salaries of the President, Vice President, Officers, &c. and for an increased Number of Professors. Provision for Provision made for 500 Free Students, 250 in the Three Senior Classes, and 250 in the Four Junior Classes. Provision for Commons and III. And be it enacted, That all Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments which have been at any Time heretofore purchased or in any Manner acquired by the Trustees of the said College, or any Seven or more of them, under or by virtue of the Powers for that Purpose given to them by any of the said herein-before recited Acts, shall be and the same are thereby vested in the said Body Politic and Corporate incorporated by this Act, subject to the Trusts upon which the said Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments are now respectively held. IV. And whereas it is expedient that Provision should be made for the Payment of the Salaries of the President, Vice 'President, Officers, and Professors of the said College, and for the Expence of Commons, Attendance, and other Necessaries to be supplied to and for their Use, and that the Number of 'Professors therein should be increased;' be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act there shall be paid and payable to the said Body Politic and Corporate, for the Purposes aforesaid, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the annual Sum of Six thousand Pounds. V. And whereas by the Statutes of the said College there has 'been established therein an Order of Students called "Senior 'Students," amounting to Twenty in Number, to whose exclusive 'Benefit has been applied the annual Revenue arising from the 'Bequest of Baron Dunboyne, in said Statutes mentioned, toge 'ther with a further yearly Sum of Seven hundred Pounds out of the annual Parliamentary Grant made to the said College: And 'whereas it is expedient that the Provision for the said Senior Students on the Dunboyne Establishment should be augmented; be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, so long as the annual Revenue arising from the said Bequest of Baron Dunboyne shall be applied to the exclusive Benefit of the said Twenty Senior Students, there shall be paid and payable to the said Body Politic and Corporate, for the said Twenty Senior Students, the annual Sums for that Purpose specified in the Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed. 6 VI. And whereas there are Three Senior and Four Junior Classes in the said College, and Two hundred and fifty Free Students on the Establishment, maintained and educated out of ⚫ the annual Parliamentary Grant made to the said College: And 'whereas it is expedient that Provision should be made for an ' additional Number of Free Students; (that is to say,) for Two hundred and fifty Free Students in the said Three Senior Classes, and Two hundred and fifty Free Students in the said Four 'Junior Classes;' be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act there shall be paid and payable to the said Body Politic and Corporate, for each of the said Two hundred and fifty Free Students in the said Three Senior Classes, the annual Sums for that Purpose specified in the Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed. VII. And be it enacted, That in order to provide for the the Expence of Expence of Commons, Attendance, and other Necessaries to be supplied to and for the Use of the said Senior Students on the Dunboyne Establishment, and to and for the Use of the said Five hundred Free Students, there shall be paid and payable to the said other Neces saries. Body Body Politic and Corporate, for the Purposes aforesaid, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the annual Sum of Twenty-eight Pounds for each such Student. Works to be Buildings, and furnishing same. of additional VIII. And whereas the Buildings for the public Purposes of Commissioners 'the said College, and for the lodging and Accommodation of the of Public Professors and Students, are inadequate and insufficient and out Commissioners of repair, and it is expedient that Provision should be made for Repairs to 'for the Erection of additional Buildings for the Purposes afore- Maynooth Colsaid, and that the present Buildings should be put into sufficient lege, and for Repair, and that said Buildings, together with the Additions to the Erection be made thereto, should from Time to Time be kept in repair, and provided with sufficient and necessary Furniture;' be it therefore enacted, That the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland for the Time being shall be and they are hereby constituted Commissioners for the Purpose of purchasing, renting, or providing, as herein-after mentioned, any Houses, Buildings, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments that may be necessary for the said College and the Purposes aforesaid, and for erecting thereon suitable and necessary Buildings and Improvements, and for enlarging, improving, upholding, maintaining, repairing, fitting up, and furnishing from Time to Time the said College, and the Buildings and Premises occupied therewith. Public Works to purchase or provide necessary Buildings, Lands, &c. IX. And be it enacted, That in order to enable the said Power to ComCommissioners of Public Works in Ireland to purchase and provide missioners of the Buildings, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments which may be required for the said College, and the Additions to be made thereto, it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners, at the Request of the said Body Politic and Corporate, and by and with the Consent and Approbation in Writing of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to contract and agree with any Person or Persons, or Body or Bodies Corporate or Politic, for the Purchase or renting of any Buildings, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments required for such College, and in order to make the necessary Additions thereto, and also for the Purchase of any subsisting Leases, Terms, Estates, or Interests therein or Charges thereon; and the said Buildings, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments so contracted and agreed for shall be conveyed, assigned, or demised to the said Trustees of the College of Maynooth incorporated by this Act. X. And be it enacted, That all and every the Expence of purchasing or providing the Houses, Buildings, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments necessary for the said College under the Provisions of this Act, and of erecting the necessary Buildings for the same, and of putting the said College into repair, and of fitting up and furnishing the same and the Buildings so to be erected, not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Thirty thousand Pounds, shall be discharged and paid by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's. Treasury out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Grant of 30,000, for Expence of for College. Buildings, &c. XL. And be it enacted, That the several Sums payable by this Sums payable Act and the Schedule thereto annexed shall be charged upon by this Act to be and payable by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury charged on Conout of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. XII. And Audit of the Expenditure under this Act. So much of the Appointment of Visitors of the College. Visitations to be held once in the Year. XII. And be it enacted, That the Accounts of the Receipt and Expenditure of all Monies paid under the Provisions of this Act shall once in each Year be forwarded to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury by the said Body Politic and Corporate incorporated by this Act, and shall be by the said Commissioners referred for Audit to such Person or Persons as the said Commissioners shall from Time to Time in that Behalf appoint; and that the said Person or Persons so appointed shall thereupon proceed to the Examination, Audit, and Discharge of the said Accounts, at such Time and in such Manner as the said Commissioners shall direct, and shall for that Purpose have and exercise all the Powers and Authorities now possessed by the Commissioners for auditing public Accounts by virtue of any Act or Acts now in force. XIII. And whereas it was enacted by the said Act secondly ' above recited, that the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland for the Time being, the Lord Chief 'Justice of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench in Ireland for the Time being, the Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of 'Common Pleas in Ireland for the Time being, the Chancellor of 'the Exchequer and the Lord Chief Baron of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer in Ireland for the Time being, and their Successors in the said Offices respectively, together with certain other Persons in the said Act named, should be and they were thereby ' nominated and appointed Visitors of the said College or Seminary, with full Visitorial Powers to superintend the same;' be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act so much of the said recited Acts as enact that the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and their Successors in the said Offices respectively, shall have Visitorial Power over the said Academy or College, and over all Persons on the Foundation or educated therein, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. 6 XIV. And be it enacted, That the other Visitors in being at the Time of the passing of this Act, or such other Persons as shall hereafter be elected to fill any Vacancy on the Death or Resignation of such Visitors, according to the Provisions of the Act herein-before secondly recited, together with such other Five Persons as Her Majesty shall by Warrant under the Sign Manual from Time to Time nominate and appoint, shall be hereafter the Visitors of the said College and Corporation. XV. And whereas by the said Act herein-before secondly ' recited it is amongst other things enacted, that the Visitors in 'the said Act mentioned, or any Three or more of them, should once in every Three Years from the passing of the said Act visit the said College or Seminary, and call before them the President, Vice President, Professors, Tutors, and all other Members thereof, and the Officers and Servants of the said College or Seminary, and diligently inquire into the Government and Management of the said College or Seminary, and, if neces sary, examine on Oath every Member thereof in all Matters touching the Management, Government, and Discipline of the • same, |