Nothing further need at present be said with respect to the above statute. But two other Acts were subsequently passed, one in the same year, and the other in the year following which require to be noticed.—The first is _The 11th and 12th George 3rd, cap. 15_, ‘for the relief of poor infants who are or shall be deserted by their parents’—the other is _The 13th and 14th George 3rd, cap. 24_, for amending the same. The first-named Act commences with this recital—“Whereas poor infants are frequently deserted by their parents, and left exposed to the inclemency of the weather in the streets and other places in cities; and whereas the inhabitants of several parishes in which children are so exposed refuse to raise money for the support of such children, by which many of them perish”—it is therefore enacted, that in every parish of every city (excepting Dublin and Cork) a vestry shall be held in the first week of June annually, at which three overseers are to be chosen, who shall take up and provide for the maintenance and education of all such children as shall be so deserted and exposed within their respective parishes. The sum of 5_l._ is allowed for the bringing up of each child, and the entire expense is to be equally borne by the inhabitants of the cities respectively. The overseers are to collect the sums assessed upon each inhabitant, and apply the money so collected to the maintenance and education of such deserted children within their respective parishes. This provision is, we see, limited to cities; but the other Act (_13th and 14th George 3rd, cap. 24_) makes the provision general throughout the country. After citing the former Act, it directs—“that in every parish in this kingdom (except in the cities of Dublin and Cork for which particular provision is made) a vestry shall be held annually, at such time and with such powers as the former Act prescribes;” and the overseers in such parishes are to “take up and provide for the maintenance and education of all such children as shall be deserted and exposed within their respective parishes at the age of twelve months or under;” and such sums of money as shall be necessary for the purpose, are to be “raised upon the respective parishes in the same manner and with such remedies as other parish cesses.” If any parish refuses or neglects to raise the amount necessary, the next going judge of assize, upon complaint of the minister or curate thereof, may order such sum to be raised as he shall think fit, “so as the same do not exceed the sum of 5_l._ for each child;” and the money so directed to be raised is to be assessed and levied in the manner and with the like remedies as the presentments of grand juries, and is to be paid to the minister or curate of such parish, and by him applied to the purposes of the Act.