Maynooth College Act 1845
MAYNOOTH COLLEGE ACT 1845 | ||
CAP. XXV. | ||
An Act to amend Two Acts passed in Ireland for the better Education of Persons professing the Roman Catholic Religion, and for the better Government of the College established at Maynooth for the Education of such Persons, and also an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom for amending the said Two Acts. [30th June 1845.] | ||
35 G. 3. (I.) | ||
40 G. 3. (I.) | ||
38 G. 3. c. cxiv. | ||
Trustees of the College of Maynooth incorporated. | ||
‘WHEREASA by an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Thirty-fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for the better Education of Persons professing the Popish or Roman Catholic Religion, it was amongst other things enacted, that the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of Ireland, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench in Ireland, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland, and the Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, for the Time being, together with certain other Persons therein named, and the Persons thereafter to be elected in the Manner by the said Act directed, should be Trustees for the Purpose of establishing, endowing, and maintaining One Academy for the Education only of Persons professing the Roman Catholic Religion, and that the said Trustees should have full Power and Authority to receive Subscriptions and Donations to enable them to establish and endow an Academy for the Education of Persons professing the Roman Catholic Religion, and to purchase and acquire Lands not exceeding the annual Value of One thousand Pounds, and to erect and maintain all such Buildings as might be by the said Trustees deemed necessary for the lodging and Accommodation of the President, Masters, Professors, Fellows, and Students who should from Time to Time be admitted into or reside in said Academy; and it was further enacted, that it should and might be lawful for any Popish Ecclesiastic to officiate in a Chapel or Building to be appointed for that Purpose by the said Trustees or any Seven or more of them, any Law, Statute, or Provision to the contrary notwithstanding: And whereas by an Act amending the said Act, and passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Fortieth Year of His said late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for the better Government of the Seminary established at Maynooth for the Education of Persons professing the Roman Catholic Religion; and for amending the Laws now in force respecting the said Seminary, after reciting that a College or Seminary had been established at Maynooth for the Education of Persons professing the Popish or Roman Catholic Religion, and that large Sums of Money had been granted to the Trustees named in the Act herein-before recited, to enable them to improve and extend the said Institution, and that it had become necessary to make further Provision for the good Government of the said College or Seminary, it was amongst other things enacted, that the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer should cease to be Trustees for carrying the said first-recited Act into execution, and that their Successors in the said Offices respectively should not thereafter be Trustees by virtue of the said first-recited Act for carrying it into execution, and that the other Persons named in the said first-recited Act in that Behalf, or such other Persons as had been elected or thereafter should be elected to fill any Vacancy occasioned by the Death, Removal, or Resignation of any such Persons respectively, should continue Trustees for the Execution of the said first-recited Act, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the said Act now in recital had not been enacted: And whereas by a certain other Act, passed in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King George the third, intituled An Act to amend Two Acts passed in Ireland for the better Education of Persons professing the Catholic Religion, and for the better Government of the Seminary established at Maynooth for the Education of such Persons, so far as relates to the Purchase of Lands and compounding Suits, it was amongst other things enacted, that it should be lawful for the Trustees for the Time being of the said College or Academy, or any Seven or more of them, to purchase or acquire Lands not exceeding in Value the annual Sum of One thousand Pounds, exclusive of the Value of Lands and Premises held under a Lease from William Robert late Duke of Leinster, and the Buildings thereon or thereafter to be erected, and used for the Purposes of the said College or Academy; ant it was provided and further enacted, that any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments already purchased or acquired under or by virtue of the Power for that Purpose given to the said Trustees or any Seven or more of them in and by the said herein-before first-recited Act should be deemed Part of the Lands which they were so authorized to purchase or acquire as aforesaid, and that no more Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments should be purchased or acquired by the said Trustees or any Seven or more of them than what, together with any Lands already purchased or acquired by them, would amount to the annual Value of One thousand Pounds: And whereas it is productive of Inconvenience and Insecurity that the said Trustees can take no effectual Grants of Lands for the Purposes of the said College or Seminary to them and their Successors; and it is therefore expedient that the said Trustees should be incorporated:’ Be it therefore 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, That the Trustees of the said College or Seminary, and their Successors for ever, shall be One Body Politic and Corporate by the Name of “The Trustees of the College of Maynooth,” and by that Name shall have perpetual Succession and a Common Seal, and by that Name shall and may sue and be sued, and shall have and possess the several Powers and Authorities vested in the said Trustees under the said recited Acts. |