Benevolent Institutions - Law Commission - Ministry of Justice

(b) the Corporation was empowered to set up apprenticeships for any of the
girls; appointment of the Corporation’s first officials; proceedings of the
Corporation; election and powers of the Corporation’s officials (sections 2
to 9)
(c) appointment and removal of officers, employees and chaplain;
accounting arrangements; civil procedure issues; status of this Act
(sections 10 to 16).
5 Geo.4 c.v (1824) (Asylum for Female Orphans Act)
5. According to its long title, the purpose of the Asylum for Female Orphans Act of
1824 (“the 1824 Act”) was:
to amend and render more effectual an Act of His late Majesty relative to the
Asylum for Female Orphans.
6. The preamble to the 1824 Act recorded the wish of the Corporation to buy the
freehold of the land in the parish of St Mary, Lambeth which the Corporation
occupied under a lease granted by the City of London.
7. The 1824 Act provided as follows-
(a) the conveyance to the Corporation of the freehold land that it currently
occupied was authorised; conveyancing procedures; authority for the
Corporation to dispose of unwanted land (sections 1 to 10)
(b) provision for reducing the financial contributions made by the guardians
of the orphanage; power to increase the number of vice-presidents and
to alter existing voting arrangements; status of this Act (sections 11 to
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Female Orphan Asylum Amendment Act 1870
8. The purpose of the Female Orphan Asylum Amendment Act 1870 (“the 1870
Act”) was to amend the Acts of 1800 and 1824. The preamble to the 1870 Act
recorded that the Corporation had moved the Orphanage from Lambeth to
Beddington Manor in Surrey in 1866 (having bought the freehold of the Beddington
premises in 1864).
9. The 1870 Act provided as follows-
(a) short title of the Act; scope of charity extended to include all fatherless
girls, whether or not their mothers were still alive; the charity to be
known in future as the Female Orphan Asylum (sections 1 to 3)
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