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For appointing Commissioners to Inquire concerning Charities
in Ireland.
[Note.—The
Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in
the Committee.]
'$} (t 3R (& Si §& it is expedient that the Charities in Ireland should be inquired into, and their objects clearly defined and made known to the Public, and all abuses corrected; BC it tfeto qftiatttfr, by The QUEEN's most Excellent Majesty, by 5 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 it shall and may be lawful for Her Majesty to issue a Commission under the Great Seal to any number of persons, not fewer than Teti, who shall be constituted Commissioners io for the purposes intended by this Act; and that they the said Com¬ missioners shall and they are hereby empowered and required, in manner hereinafter mentioned, to examine into and investigate the amount, nature and application of all Estates and Funds of what nature or kind soever, and the produce thereof, destined or intended to l5 be applied to the purpose of educating the Poor in Ireland, or to the
support of any Charity or Charities, or charitable Donation or Do¬ nations for the benefit of poor Persons in Ireland ; or held under trusts created for any charitable uses or purposes whatever in Ireland (except as is hereinafter provided and excepted), and to examine into 20 and investigate all breaches of trust, irregularities, frauds, abuses or
supposed abuses, or misconduct in relation to and in the manage¬ ment or appropriation or nonappropriation or misappropriation of such Estates and Funds; and the said Commissioners shall from time to time, during the continuance of this Act, report and certify, in 25 writing under their hands and seals, to the Queen's most Excellent
Majesty, their proceedings touching the amount, nature, manage¬ ment, application and appropriation of such of the aforesaid Estates and Funds as they shall have inquired and examined into, and also 147, ^
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Preamble.
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Commis¬ sioners to bo appointed to> inquire into the nature and manage¬ ment of Cha-ritioa.
