Endowed Schools Act 1822
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1822 c. 79 |
| Year | 1822 |
(3 Geo. 4) C A P. LXXIX.
[26th July 1822]
'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King;George the Third, intituled An Act for the Appointment of Commissioners for the Regulation of the several endowed Schools of public and private Foundation inIreland, it is amongst other things enacted, that the Lord Primate of allIreland, the Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, the Lord Archbishop of Dublin, the Lord Archbishop of Tuam, and the respective Coadjutors of the said Primate and Archbishops for the time being, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland, and the Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, for the time being, and Four of the Bishops of Ireland, to wit, one for each Province, and Four other proper and discreet Persons, such Bishops and other Persons to be from time to time appointed by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being, and to be removable at his or their Pleasure, shall be a Corporation, and be called The Commissioners of Education in Ireland: And Whereas it is expedient that certain other Persons should be appointed to be Commissioners, together with the Commissioners named in the said Act, in order that the said Corporation may be further increased, and the Purposes thereof more effectually carried into Execution:' Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 from and after the passing of this Act, the Archbishop of Cashel and his Coadjutornow and hereafter for the time being, the Chief Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors ofIreland now and hereafter for the time being, and the Member chosen to serve in Parliament for the said Trinity College, in Dublin, now and hereafter for the time being, shall be and are hereby appointed, and shall be deemed and taken to be respectively Commissioners of Education in Ireland, and Members respectively of the said Corporation, to all Intents and Purposes, as fully and effectually, and with all such Rights, Powers and Privileges, as if they had, respectively been included and mentioned as such Commissioners and Members of the said Corporation in the said recited Act.
II Lord Lieutenant may name Two Residents in Dublin to be additional Commissioners.
II. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors ofIreland for the time being, to appoint Two other proper and discreet Persons, who shall be usually resident in the City of Dublin, to be Commissioners of Education in Ireland, and to be removeable at the Pleasure of the Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being; and such Two Persons so to be appointed shall thereupon become and be Two of the Commissioners of Education in Ireland, and Members respectively of the said Corporation, during the Pleasure of the Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being, as fully and effectually as if they had been so constituted, appointed and specified in and by the said recited Act.
III. And Whereas in and by the said recited Act it is amongst other things provided, that no Proceeding which requires to be ratified and confirmed by the Common Seal of the said Corporation, shall be finally concluded, nor the said Seal fixed to any Deed or Instrument in the Name of the said Commissioners, unless the Lord primate, or the Lord Chancellor or the Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench for the time being, be personally present at the Meeting of the said Commissioners at which it is proposed that such Proceeding shall be determined or such Deed or Instrument shall be executed; or unless the Consent and Approbation of Two of the said Commissioners last mentioned, Previously given to such Proceeding, or to such Deed or Instrument, shall be signified under their Hand respectively, and communicated to the Commissioners assembled at such Meeting, held pursuant to general Notice, as in the said Act is...
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