m <; IN THE CITY 0 F DUBLIN.
Dublin was first established; its Object, and how supported; with an Account of all of the Names and Salaries of the different Governors of the said House of Industry.
2d Idiots and Incurable Lunatics transmitted from the Richmond Lunatic Asylum; 3d, The Sick labouring under Acute, Chronic, and Surgical Complaints, who are lodged in appropriate Hospitals; Ath, Strolling Beggars committed by the Magistrates of Police.
Answer 3d.—The
House of Industry was supported from the Year 1773 tili 1776 by Subscriptions, ponations and Charity Sermons, and from that Period to the present by Parliamentary Grants, Voluntary Subscriptions, the Profits arising from the Latour ofthe Poor, and £.159
Interest on Three Legacies vested in Government Stock.
SALARIES.
R E M A R K S.
none.
ditto.
ditto.
1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 2,500 2,500 2,500 2,500 2,500 2,500 2,500 2,500 500 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500
From the year 1772 tili the year 179,15, the affairs ofthe House of Industry in Dublin were managed and governed by the Corporation for the relief ofthe Poor in the County ofthe City of Dublin ; which Corporation was created under the'Act of Parliament lith & i2th Geo.
3, and consisted of a certain number of Ex-Officio Members, and a number of Persons, unlimited by the Act, who beeame Members by Subscription or by Ballot.
In the year 1797, this Corporation was empowered by Act of Parliament 38th of the late King, c.
34, to appoint by ballot Seven Persons out of its own body to be Acting Governors of the House of Industry, and the following Persons were appointed accordingly; viz.—James
Henthorn, Reverend William O'Connor, Edward Houghton, Reverend James Horner, Francis L'Estrange, the Reverend Thomas Gamble, and Thomas Worthington, Esq.
In the year 1798, the Seven Acting Governors were re-appointed by the Act 3gth ofthe late King, c.
38.
In 1799, the same Seven Persons were re-appointed for another year: up to this period the above-named Persons acted as Governors without Salary.
In the year 1800, by the Act 40 Geo.
3, c.40,
Five of the then Seven Acting Governors were appointed by His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant to be Governors of the House of Industry in Dublin, which Five Persons continued to be Governors until the year 1820, when by Act of Parliament 1 Geo.
4, c.
40, the Number of Five Governors were no longer considered neces-sary; and by said Act, His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant was authorized to appoint One Person to be Governor, at a Salary of £.500.
a year, and One other Person to be Assistant Governor, at £.300.
a year, but the latter Appointment has not hitherto been made; said Act also autho'rizes the Appointment of Seven Persons to be Visitors ofthe said House of Industry,.
which said Persons so appointed act without Salary.
NAMES OF THE VISITORS Appointed under the aforesaid Act.
Robert Perceval, Esq.
M.
D.
— Thomas Crosthwait, Esq.
— William Harding, Esq.-
James M.
Pike, Esq Roderick Connor, Esq.—Henry
Cole, Esq.—and
Judge Vandeleur.
House of Industry, Dublin,]
14th March 1828.
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