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No inmate of workhouse to be obliged to attend religious service contrary to his principles.
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49. No order of the commissioners nor any bye law shall oblige any inmate of any workhouse to attend or be present at any religious service which may be celebrated in a mode contrary to the religious principles of such inmate, nor shall authorize the education of any child in such workhouse in any religious creed other than that professed by the parents or surviving parent of such child, and to which such parents or parent shall object, or in the case of an orphan to which the guardian or guardians, godfather or godmother of such orphan shall object: Provided also, that it shall be lawful for any regular minister of the religious persuasion of any inmate of such workhouse at all times in the day, on the request of such inmate, to visit such workhouse, for the purpose of affording religious assistance to such inmate, and also for the purpose of instructing his child or children in the principles of his religion.
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