An Act (8 & 9 Vict. c. 100) for the regulation of the care and treatment of lunatics : with explanatory notes and comments, etc. etc. / edited by Forbes Winslow.
- Date:
- 1845
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Credit: An Act (8 & 9 Vict. c. 100) for the regulation of the care and treatment of lunatics : with explanatory notes and comments, etc. etc. / edited by Forbes Winslow. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![10. And be it enacted, That any superannuation allow- ance to be granted to any secretary appointed or to be ap- pointed under this act, shall be granted only in respect of services performed under this act, and shall be subject to the provisions of an act passed in the fourth and fifth years of his late majesty King William the Fourth, intituled ‘An act to alter, amend, and consolidate the laws for regulating the pensions, compensation, and allowances to be made to persons in respect of their having held civil offices in his Majesty’s service,’ so far as such provisions relate to officers and clerks who had entered or might enter the public service subsequent to the fourth day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. 11. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the commissioners to appoint, during pleasure, any two persons as clerks to the commissioners, and to allow' to such two clerks any such yearly or other salaries (not exceeding in the whole the yearly sum of two hundred pounds for such two clerks) as the commissioners shall think proper; and further, that it shall be lawful for the commissioners, at any time hereafter, in case they shall find it expedient so to do, for the due performance of the business of the commission, with the consent of the Lord High Treasurer, or of the commissioners of her majesty’s treasury, or of any three or more of them, to appoint one or two other clerks, (in addition to the two clerks firstly hereinbefore mentioned,) and to allow to such one or two additional clerk or clerks any such yearly or other salaries as the commissioners shall think fit, (not exceeding in the whole the yearly sum of two hundred pounds;) and such salaries shall be paid out of the monies or funds hereinafter mentioned. 12. And be it enacted, That every person appointed to be secretary or clerk as aforesaid shall, before he shall act as such secretary or clerk, take the following oath, to be administered by any one of the commissioners : ‘ I, A.B. do swear, That I will faithfully execute all such trusts and duties as shall be committed to my charge as secretary to the commissioners in lunacy, [or as clerk to the commissioners in lunacy, as the case may be ;] and that I will keep secret all such matters as shall come to my knowledge in the execution of my office, (except when required to divulge the same by legal authority.) ‘So help me GOD.’ 13. And be it enacted, That immediately after the pass- ing of this act, the clerk to the metropolitan commissioners in lunacy appointed under the said act of the second and third years of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, or under any of the other acts hereby repealed, r 2 Provision for retiring pension to secretary. 4&5W.4, c. 24. Power for the com- missioners to appoint two clerks. Secretary and clerks to take an oath. Clerk of the metropoli- tan com- missioners to deliver](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22317296_0077.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
