{"id":4424,"date":"2026-01-28T18:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/?page_id=4424"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:01:12","slug":"1779-19-george-3-c-15","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/eighteenth-century\/1779-19-george-3-c-15\/","title":{"rendered":"1779: 19 George 3 c.15: Continuation of madhouse regulation act"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>1779: 19 George 3 c.15: An act to continue an act made in the fourteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, (intituled, An act for regulating mad-houses,) for a further time therein limited.<\/h3>\n<p>[Preamble.]<\/p>\n<p>WHEREAS an act was passed in the fourteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty,<\/p>\n<p>[Act 14 Geo III. recited.]<\/p>\n<p>intituled, An act for regulating mad-houses: And whereas it is expedient that the said act should be continued for a further time; be it therefore enacted by the King&#8217;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,<\/p>\n<p>[and further continued for seven years.]<\/p>\n<p>That the said act shall continue in force for the further term of seven years, and from thence to the end of the then next session of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=FcAuAAAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA209#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">Pickering, Statutes at Large, volume 32<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1779: 19 George 3 c.15: An act to continue an act made in the fourteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, (intituled, An act for regulating mad-houses,) for a further time therein limited. [Preamble.] WHEREAS an act was passed in the fourteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, [Act 14 Geo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4424","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4424\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}