Read Friday, 23rd January, 1914. - TARA - Trinity College Dublin

1914J By S. 'Shannon Millin, Esq. 135
(4). " An Act for the better enabling the Governors
of the Workhouse of the City of Dublin to
provide for and employ the poor therein, and
1729. for the more effectual punishment of vagabonds
: and also for the better securing of
and providing for lunatics and foundling
children." 3 Geo.II., c. 17.
Section 6 enacts, " That from and after 25th March,
1.730, the governors of the said workhouse shall receive
from the church-wardens of the respective parishes of the
said city and liberties adjoining all the exposed and
foundling children that shall then be in the said city and
liberties thereunto adjoining under the age of six years."
(5). Section 2 recited : " That there are great numbers
of loose idle vagrants, and of loose persons
of infamous lives and characters in
Dublin, and the County of Dublin," and it
is enacted " that such persons may be presented
by the Grand Juries of the Court of
1735. King's Bench, or the Session of Oyer and
Terminer and Gaol delivery, held in the
King's Courts after term for the county, or
City of Dublin, and sent on board His
Majesty's fleet, or transported fox seven
years." 9 Geo. II., c. 6.
In 1737 Swift published " A Proposal for giving Badges
to the Beggars in» all the Parishes of Dublin," and from it
we gather that the House of Industry did not afford adequate
relief for the poor. " The principal end I take to
have been that of maintaining the poor and orphans of
the city, where the parishes are not able to do it; and
-clearing the streets from all strollers, foreigners and sturdy
beggars, with which, to the universal complaint and
admiration, Dublin is more infested since the establishment
of the poorhouse, than it was ever known to be since
its first erection."
(6). " An Act to provide for begging children, and
for the better regulation of Charity Schools,
and for taking up vagrant and offensive beg-
1749. gars in the City of Dublin and liberties
thereof, and the liberties thereto adjoining."
23 Geo. II., c, 11.
The preamble recites : " Whereas there are in almost
every part of the Kingdom great numbers of helpless