Trustees empowered to receive subscriptions and donations, and to acquire land directed, shall 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 shall have full power and authority to receive subscriptions and donations to purchase and 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 may be by the said trustees deemed necessary for the lodging and accommodation of the president, masters, professors, fellows, and students, who shall from time to time be admitted into or reside in such academy. not exceed- Popish eccle siastics may officiate, II. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for any popish ecclesiastic to officiate in a chapel or building to be appointed for * By 40 Geo. III c. 85. s. 4. it is enacted, "that from and after the passing of this Act, 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, shall cease to be trustees for carrying the said recited Act into execution, and that their successors in the said offices shall not hereafter be trustees by virtue of the said recited act for carrying it into execution." This Act, it will be perceived, was not intended to make lawful that general establishment of Roman Catholic seminaries which has since taken place. that purpose by the said trustees, or any seven or more of them, any law, statute, or provision to the contrary notwithstanding. tees may ap sident, lows, pro and make III. And be it further enacted, That it shall Seven trusand may be lawful for the said trustees, or any point a preseven or more of them, to appoint one president, masters, feland so many masters, fellows, professors, and scho- fessors, &c., lars, on the foundation, and ministers, servants, and bye laws, &c assistants of and in the said academy, with such pensions, salaries, exhibitions, wages, and allowances as to them shall seem fit, and also to make such bye laws, rules, regulations, and statutes for the government of the said academy, and for the education and government of all such persons to be on the foundation thereof, or to be educated therein, and for the appointment and election of a president, masters, fellows, members, and officers of the said academy, as to the trustees of any seven or more of them shall seem meet: provided that the same shall not be contrary to law. affecting reli pline to be laid before the Lord Lieutenant, laid and to be binding, if IV. Provided always, That all such bye laws, Bye laws not rules, regulations, and statutes, not affecting the gious disciexercise of the Popish or Roman Catholic religion and the religious discipline thereof, be before the Lord Lieutenant or chief governor of not disapthis kingdom, and shall be binding and valid, him in one unless such Lord Lieutenant or chief governor shall disapprove thereof in one month from the time when such bye laws shall be laid before proved by month. Trustees to have visitorial powers. Trustees such Lord Lieutenant or other chief governor respectively. V. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees, or any seven or more of them, shall have the superintendence and visitorial power over the said academy, and over all persons on the foundation, or educated therein.* VI. And be it enacted, That the said trustees in one month shall and may assemble within one month after may assemble after passing make rules, &c. Acts of the this Act, and the passing of this Act, at such time and place as shall be appointed by any seven or more of the said trustees, by writing under their hands, and shall at such their first meeting make such rules and regulations for their assembling in future as to them shall seem expedient; and that the acts trustees bind- of the trustees so assembled at the said first ing on the whole. meeting, or the major part of them, and of the trustees to be duly assembled at any future meeting, or the major part of them, shall be binding on and be deemed the act of all the said trustees. majority of * By sect. 5. of 40 Geo. III. it is enacted, "that so much of the said recited (35 Geo. III.) Act as enacts that the trustees herein named, or any seven or more of them, shall have visitorial power over the said academy or college, and over all persons on the foundation or educated therein, shall be and the same is hereby repealed." And by another provision the visitorial power over the college in all matters which relate to the doctrine and discipline of the Roman Catholic religion is restricted to those only who shall be members of the church of Rome. VII. And be it enacted, That so often as a when trustees die, shall be natural sub vacancy shall happen by the death, removal, or &c., others resignation of the said trustees, or any of them elected, being (save the said Chancellor or Lord Keeper, Chief jects. Justices, and Chief Baron of the said courts), the said trustees shall at their meeting elect a person being a natural born subject of His Majesty to fill such vacancy. Catholic shall president, VIII. Provided always and be it enated, That No Roman no person professing the Roman Catholic religion act as trustee, shall act as a trustee to the said academy; and master, &c.; that no person shall act as a president of the a or said academy; and that no person shall act as master, fellow, professor, teacher, or tutor, enjoy any place on the foundation of the said academy, or be otherwise admitted into the same as a student, officer, or servant, until he shall have taken and subscribed the oath appointed by the Act passed in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of His Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to enable His Majesty's Subjects of whatever Persuasion to testify their Allegiance to him.” or be ad mitted as student or servant, until he take the oath appoint ed by 13 and 14 Geo. III. or sons of fathers not to Penalties to IX. Provided always, That it shall not be law- Protestants ful to receive into, or educate, or instruct in the Protestant said academy any person professing the Protest- be received. ant religion, or whose father professed the Pro- be suffered by testant religion; and that any president, master, a Protestant professor, or teacher, who shall instruct any per- academy. son in the said academy professing the Protestant religion, shall remain liable to such pains and any person who instructs in the said By an Act of this session, 2,449,600Z. 16s. 94d. is granted for the year 1795. penalties as he would have been liable to before the passing of this Act. X. And whereas, by an Act of Parliament passed this session of Parliament, intituled, "An Act for securing the Payment of the Annuities and of the Interest upon the principal Sums therein provided for, and towards the Discharge of such principal Sums in such Manner as therein is directed, and for enabling the Officers of His Majesty's Treasury to receive certain Sums for a limited Time, in Manner therein mentioned, and for granting to His Majesty a certain Sum of Money out of the Consolidated Fund, and for applying a certain Sum of Money therein mentioned for the Service of the Year One thousand seven hundred and ninety-five," a sum not exceeding two millions four hundred and forty-nine thousand six hundred pounds sixteen shillings and nine pence farthing is granted to His Majesty for the service of the present year; be it enacted, 80001. may be That any sum or sums of money, not exceeding the Treasury eight thousand pounds, part of the said sum of establishing two millions four hundred and forty-nine thousand six hundred pounds sixteen shillings and nine pence farthing, shall and may be issued and paid by the commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any three or more of them, towards establishing the said academy. issued from towards said academy. Sums issued on said accounts to be paid to trustees, and account of XI. And be it enacted, That all sum and sums from time to time issued and paid out money of His Majesty's Treasury on account of the said |