[38 ViOT.] Orphan mid Deserted Children {Ireland).
TO
Amend the Law relating to the Rehef of Orphan and Deserted a.d. 1875.
Children out of Workhouses in Ireland.
WHEREAS it is expedient to extend the age up to which orphan
and deserted children may he kept out at nurse in Ireland :
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, hy and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,
5 and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows :
1. Prom and after the passing of this Act, the Act thirty-two and 32 & 33 Vict,
thirty-three Victoria, chapter twenty-five, shall be and the same is peaie'a!^'
hereby repealed.
10 2. Prom and after the passing of this Act it shall be lawful Power to
for the board of guardians of any union in Ireland to provide for
the relief of any orphan or deserted child out of the workhouse, if orphans out
they shall think fit to do so, according to their discretion; provided
that no child shall be placed out with any person who does not
15 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; provided always, that the guardians of the
poor may, with the consent of the Local Government Board,
continue such relief from year to year until the child attain the
2Q age of tioelve years.
3. Nothing in this Act contained shall be held to re-enact the Saving,
ninth section of the Act twenty-five and twenty-six Victoria,
chapter eighty-three.
[Bill 205.
