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Inspectors of lunatics.
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23. The lord lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland shall be and he or they are hereby empowered, if they shall so think fit, to appoint one or two duly qualified and experienced persons to act as inspectors of lunatics in Ireland; and on such appointments the functions of the inspectors general of prisons in Ireland, so far as they relate to the inspection of lunatic asylums or other establishments for lunatics, shall be transferred to such inspectors of lunatics so to be appointed under this Act, and such inspectors of lunatics shall thereon undertake and perform all the duties in respect to lunatic asylums which heretofore have been undertaken and performed by the inspector general of prisons, under the provisions of any previous Act, and under this Act.
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