Α BILL [AS AMENDED BY THE COMMITTEE, ON RE-COMMITMENT, To consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Removal of the Poor. NEW TITLE FOR THIRD READING: AN ACT to amend the Laws relating to the W HEREAS it is expedient that the laws relating to the by The QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and 5 Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT from and after the passing of this Act, no person shall be removed from any parish in which he shall have resided for Five Years next before the application for a warrant for his removal from such parish: Provided always, That the time during 10 which such person shall be a prisoner in a prison, or shall be serving Her Majesty as a soldier, marine or sailor, or reside as an inpensioner in Greenwich or Chelsea Hospitals, or shall be confined in a lunatic asylum, or house duly licensed, or hospital registered for the reception of lunatics, or as a patient in a hospital, or during which any such person shall receive relief from any parish or shall be wholly or in part maintained by any rate or subscription raised in a parish in which he does not reside, not being a bonâ fide charitable gift, shall for all purposes be excluded in the computation of time hereinbefore mentioned, and that the removal of a pauper lunatic to a 20 lunatic asylum, under the provisions of any Act relating to the maintenance and care of pauper lunatics, shall not be deemed a removal within the meaning of this Act. 15 1. Persons exempted from the liability to be removed after Five Years' residence. 526. And 2. Widows. 3. Children. 4. Sick Persons. 5. Settlement not to be And be it Enacted, That no woman residing in any parish with her husband at the time of his death shall, during her widowhood, be removable from such parish for Twelve calendar Months next after his death. And be it Enacted, That no child under the age of Sixteen years, whether legitimate or illegitimate, residing in any parish with his or her father or mother, stepfather or stepmother, or reputed father, shall be removed from such parish in any case where such father, mother, stepfather, stepmother, or reputed father, may not lawfully be removed. And be it Enacted, That no warrant shall be granted for the removal of any person becoming chargeable in respect of relief made necessary by sickness or accident, unless the Justices granting the warrant shall state in such warrant that they are satisfied that the sickness or accident will produce permanent disability. Provided always, and be it Enacted, That no person hereby exempted gained by ex- from liability to be removed shall, by reason of such exemption, acquire any settlement in any parish. emption from removal here in provided. 6. Penalty for procuring removals of warrants of Justices. 5 10 15 And be it Enacted, That if any officer of any parish or Union do, contrary to law, with intent to cause any poor person to become 20 poor persons chargeable to any parish to which such person was not then chargeable, convey any poor person out of the parish for which such officer acts, or cause or procure any poor person to be so conveyed, or give directly or indirectly any money, relief or assistance, or afford or procure to be afforded any facility for such conveyance, or make any 25 offer or promise, or use any threat to induce any poor person to depart from such parish, and if, in consequence of such conveyance or departure, any poor person become chargeable to any parish to which he was not then chargeable, such officer, on conviction thereof before any Two Justices, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any 30 sum not exceeding Five Pounds, nor less than Forty Shillings. 7. Delivery of under orders 8. The Poor Law Amend And be it Enacted, That the delivery of any pauper under any warrant of removal directed to the Overseers of any parish, at the Workhouse of such parish, or of any Union to which such parish belongs, to any officer of such Workhouse, shall be deemed the 35 delivery of such pauper to the Overseers of such parish. And be it Enacted, That the said Act of the fifth year of the reign ment Act and of King WILLIAM the Fourth, "for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales," this Act to be construed as one Act. shall and all Acts to amend and extend the same, and the present Act, And be it Enacted, That this Act shall extend only to England. 9. Act limited to England. 10. And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed Act may be by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. amended this Session. A BILL, [AS AMENDED BY THE COMMITTEE] To amend the Laws relating to the Settlement of 5 HEREAS the Laws for the Settlement of the Poor have WHEREAS Laws for expensive and embarrasing Preamble. given rise to a course of expensive and embarrassing litigation AND whereas the Removal of Poor Persons who are incapable of maintaining themselves to the places of their settlement, according to the laws now in force, is frequently attended with much trouble and expense, and with grievous oppression to the honest and industrious among them; FOR Remedy thereof; BE it Enacted, by The KING's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and 10 with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, to be removed, After 1 August 1824, if 15 years resident; and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT no poor person or persons shall be . Poor Persons not removed from any parish, township or place (by reason of such poor person or persons being chargeable or incapable of maintaining him 15 or themselves) between the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, in which such poor person or persons shall have been domiciled or resident principally each year, for the space of Fifteen years; or between the first day of August one thou- nor after 1 August 20 sand eight hundred and twenty-five and the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, in which such poor person or persons shall have been domiciled or resident principally each year, for the space of Fourteen years; or between the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, in which such poor person or persons shall have been resident or domiciled principally 159. 504 of 1823. each 1825, - if 14 years resident; nor after 1 August 1826, if 13 years resident; |