The Pauper Children (Ireland) Act 1876
WHEREAS it is expedient on sanitary and social grounds to extend the age up to which orphan and deserted children may be kept out at nurse or boarded out in Ireland: Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows