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Religious service to be provided in workhouses, and chaplains to be appointed.
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48. The commissioners shall take order for the due performance of religious service in such workhouses, and for appointing fit persons to be chaplains for that purpose, to hold their respective offices during the pleasure of the commissioners; but nothing herein contained shall authorize the commissioners to appoint or direct the appointment of more than one fit person being in holy orders and of the Established Church, one other fit person being a protestant dissenter, and one other fit person being a priest or clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, to be chaplain or chaplains at any one time in any such workhouse; and the commissioners shall fix and from time to time regulate the salary of such chaplain or chaplains: Provided always, that in the appointment of such chaplain preference shall be given to some clergyman of the Established Church officiating within the parish in which such workhouse shall be situated, if duly qualified and in like manner to some dissenting minister and some clergyman of the Roman Catholic religion, if duly qualified, acting as such within the said parish.
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