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Amended by 21 & 22 G. 3. c. 40. f. 18, 19.
Workhouse funds insufficient to support soundlings,
and by 11 & 12 G. c. 15. parishes in Cork exempted from taking them,
church wardens in Cork may in their parishes take and provide for deserted insants,
expence on inhabitants by parish rates,
in 2 days after taking account of time and place returned to workhouse,
returns entered in priority,
laid before the governors or assistants,
when workhouse funds allow, so many of said children from the parishes by priority.
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XX. Whereas the sums, appropriated to be paid to the governors of the workhouse of the city of Cork, are not found sufficient for the support or maintenance of the foundling, deferred, or exposed children in the said city, and the suburbs thereof: and whereas by an act passed in the eleventh and twelfth years of his present Majesty’s reign, entitled, An act for relief of poor infants, who are or shall be deserted by their parents, the parishes in the city of Cork are exempted from taking or receiving any deserted or exposed children: and whereas by the means aforesaid many foundling, deserted, or exposed children, have miserably perished in the said city: for the prevention thereof for the future, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the church wardens of the several parishes in the said city of Cork and the suburbs thereof, may if they shall think proper to take into their care and possession any infant children, that shall be deserted and exposed in their respective parishes, and that they may provide for such insant children proper nurses, cloathing, and other necessaries sufficient for the support of such insant children, and that the expences thereof shall be raised on the inhabitants of the said parishes respectively by parish rates, in the same manner as the repairs of the parish churches or other usual parish rates are raised; and that the church-wardens shall respectively take, an account, when any such deserted or exposed infant child shall be taken by them in their respective parishes, and shall in two days at farthest after taking of such infant return in writing to the master of the workhouse of the said city an account of the time and place of taking such deserted or exposed children; and the said master of the said workhouse shall keep a book, in which he shall enter the returns of the said church wardens in priority, as the same shall be made, and that the said master of the workhouse shall lay the said book before the governors of the said workhouse, or the courts of assistants belonging to the same, whenever the said governors or court of assistants shall meet, and that whenever the funds of the said workhouse shall answer to take one or more of the said deserted or exposed children on the foundation of said workhouse, to be provided for agreeable to the act of Parliament in that case made and provided, the said governors or the said court of assistants shall take from said respective parishes such and so many of the said deserted and exposed insant children, as the funds of the said workhouse will then allow of, and according to the priority of such deserted or exposed children being taken on the said parishes in manner aforesaid.
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