loon Helief {Ireland) Act (1SG2) Amendment
A BILL
TO
Amend the Act of the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth years a.d.is69.
of Victoria, chapter eighty-three, section nine, by extend-ing the age at which orphan and deserted children may be kept out at nurse.
WHEUEAS it is expedient to amend the provisions of the Act 25 & 26 Viet.
twenty-five and twenty-six Victoria, chapter eighty-three, so
c-83-far as the same relate to the relief of orphan and deserted children out of workhouses in Ireland : 5 Be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows :
1.
Erom and after the passing of this Act, section nine of the Repeal of 10 Act twenty-five and twenty-six Victoria, chapter eighty-three, shall 25"|2^^lct*
be and the same is hereby repealed.
2.
Erom and after the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for Relief of the boax-d of guadta.
of any in Ireland to provide for the «£»-relief of any orphan or deserted child out of the workhouse, if they diiidivn.
15 shall think fit to do so, by placing such child out at nurse, according
to their discretion; provided that no child shall be placed out with any person who does not profess the same religion as that in which the child has been registered, and that no child shall continue to be so relieved after the age of ten years.
[Bill 117.]
