Supplemental Scheme for Management of Diocesan Schools and Banagher Royal Schools Endowment

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SUPPLEMENTAL SCHEME REFERRED TO IN THE FOREGOING ORDER. 

No. 
90 ; Supplemental. 

EDTTC1TI0ML ENDOWMENTS (IRELAND) COMMISSION. 

Supplemental Scheme framed under the Educational Endow¬ 

ments (Ireland) Act, 1885, for the future government and management of the Endowment heretofore belonging to The Limerick, Killaloe, and Kilfenora Diocesan School. 

Whereas, by an Act of Parliament passed in Ireland in the twelfth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, entitled " An Act for the Erection of Free Schools," it was provided that there should be a Free School in every Diocese in Ireland, the School-house to be built at the costs and charges of the whole Diocese, and the stipend of the Schoolmasters to be paid and contributed by the Ordinary, Parsons, Vicars, Prebendaries, and other Ecclesiastical Persons of the Diocese, in certain proportions : 

And whereas Free Schools for certain Dioceses, including the Diocese of Limerick, were established under the said Act, and a School-house for the Limerick Diocesan Free School was built in or near the City of Limerick : 

And whereas, by an Act of Parliament passed in the fifty-third year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, cap. 
107, entitled " An Act for the appointment of Commissioners for the regulation of the several Endowed Schools of public and private foundation in Ireland," it was provided that, for the purpose of maintaining such Diocesan Free Schools as aforesaid, it should be lawful for the Commissioners of Education in Ireland, thereby constituted, to declare that anv two or more adjoining Dioceses should be united into one District, and that "the Free Schools of such Dioceses should be consolidated into one Free School, to be kept in such manner as the said Commissioners should direct, and the Dioceses of Limerick, Killaloe, and Kilfenora were afterwards united into one District for the purposes of the said Act: And whereas the School-house in which the Limerick Diocesan Free School jjiocesan School had been established fell into ruin, and in the year 1837 a new School-house was for Limerick erected, by the Commissioners of Education, on the site at Roxborough Road |*Hak>e, and in the City of Limerick particularly described in the Schedule hereto, at a *>a-cost of £1,672 155. 
4d, of which the sum of £1,640 was presented by the Grand Juries of the County and County of the City of Limerick and m the same year a Diocesan Free School for the District consisting of the Dioceses of Limerick, Killaloe, and Kilfenora was established in the said School-house : 

And whereas, at the dates of the passing of the Irish Church Act, 1869, and of the Irish Church Act Amendment Act, 1872, the Rev. 
Dr. 
Hall was Master .of 
the said Diocesan Free School; and in the year 1872 the said Rev. 
Dr. 
Hall commuted and compounded for his life interest, under the provisions of the said Acts, and discontinued the said School, but the said *^-J^.^ 
«"£ tinned to occupy the said School-house until his death, and the said bchool premises fell into dilapidation :