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Maximum number of patients in district lunatic asylums.
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13. [Recital of 1 & 2 Geo. 4. c. 33. s. 2; 7 Geo. 4. c. 14; 1 Will. 4. c. 13 (being an Act to amend 11 Geo. 4. & 1 Will. 4. c. 22), and repeal of part of 1 & 2 Geo. 4. c. 33. rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 67. (S.L.R.)] Notwithstanding anything in the said last-mentioned Act, or in any other Act or Acts, to the contrary, it shall and may be lawful to receive, maintain, and take care of, within every such district lunatic asylum, any number of lunatic poor whatsoever, for the reception and accommodation of whom such asylum shall or may afford space and capacity; and the care, maintenance, superintendence, and expenditure which shall be or become requisite for or in respect of all such lunatic poor shall be defrayed, raised, and provided for in all respects as the care, maintenance, superintendence, and expenditure requisite for or in respect of such limited number of lunatic poor as before the passing of this Act it was or might have been lawful to maintain and take care of in such lunatic asylum might or ought to have been defrayed, raised, and provided for: Provided, nevertheless, that the maximum number of lunatics admissible into such asylums respectively shall first be fixed and determined from time to time by the lord lieutenant.
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