cance of what is freshly introduced into this edition, cannot fail to be recognized. I may repeat the hope expressed in the first edition, that a work which is the result of many years' study and practical observation, will serve to help and strengthen that healthy sense of public duty and individual responsibility, the active existence of which in every neighbourhood is the first essential, and only real hope and means, to reaching a high standard of true civilization, and to the maintaining of a Free State. TOULMIN SMITH. 8, Serjeants' Inn, Fleet Street: Easter, 1857. MODE OF DISCHARGING THE FUNCTIONS OF THE PARISH: BYE- Committee of Jurats for settling differences, 229; Committee of As- sistance, 229; Synodsmen, 229; Committee for Watch and Ward, 230; Committee for Assessment, 230; Committee for Raising and Distributing Poor relief, 231; Committee for Audit, 231; Com- mittee for Destruction of Vermin, 231; Committee for holding Land, 236; Committee for managing Poor Relief, 237; Select Vestry for Poor Relief, 237; Select Vestry under Hobhouse's Act, with three Committees, 240; Lighting Inspectors, 244; Highway Board, 244; Baths and Washhouses Committee, 249; Library and Museum Committee, 252; Burial Board, 254; Nuisances' Removal Committee, 256; Practical Means to the right action of all Com- X PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES USED IN THIS WORK. Anglo-Saxon Kings, Laws of. Archæologia. Acton (or Athon)'s Comments on the Canons of Otho and Othobon. Ayliffe's Parergon. Bacon's Novum Organum; Advancement of Learning; De Augmentis Scientiarum; The Use of the Law; and, Cases of Treason. Bacon's Abridgment of the Law. Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica. Bentham's Rationale of Judicial Evidence. Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. Boke for a Justyce of Peace (A.D. 1541). Brand's Popular Antiquities. Burnett's History of the Reformation. Canons and Constitutions of the English Church from A.D. 747 to A.D. 1640. Carew's Survey of Cornwall. Charge of Serjeant Thorpe to the Grand Jury at York Assizes, 20 March, 1648. Chauncy's History of Hertfordshire. Clarendon's History of the Rebellion. Coke's Commentary upon Littleton (1st Inst.); 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Insti tutes; Reports; and, Complete Copyholder. Coleridge's The Statesman's Manual. Compleat Constable (1708). Comyn's Digest of the Laws of England. Cranmer's Articles of Visitation (1548). Defoe's Memoirs of the Plague Year. Degge's Parson's Counsellor. Dering, Sir Ed.; Speech in Parliament (1640). Digges, Sir Dudley; Speech at Conference on Petition of Right (1628). Fortescue; De Laudibus Legum Angliæ. Fox, Charles James; Speech in Parliament. Gibson's Codex; and, Ön Visitations. Glanville; De Legibus. Government by Commissions illegal and pernicious. Hale's Analysis of the Law; History of the Common Law; and, Pleas of the Crown. Hawkins' Pleas of the Crown. Henry I., Laws of. |