The National School Teachers (Ireland) Act 1875
WHEREAS it is expedient to enable boards of guardians throughout Ireland to contribute towards increasing the remuneration of the teachers of national schools in their respective unions out of the rates for the relief of the destitute poor: Be it therefore 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 (that is to say),