PARISH HOUSES. Overseers may regain possession of, by order of justices, 39. See OVERSEERS. Is an office within 3 & 4 W. & M. c. 11, s. 6, being a freehold, 637,645. Copy of, admissible to prove births, marriages and burials, 796. Per se no evidence of place of birth, 805. PARTNER. Residence by one, makes his share only in the stock in trade rateable, 116. PASS. Of persons born in Scotland, Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey, and Isle of Man, 728. Exclusive right of, a tenement, under 13 & 14 Car. II. 536, 537. Fed, (if this part of the contract,) cows are also a tenement, 536, 537, 538. PENSIONS. Of run-aways deserting wife or children, may be paid to overseers, 181. As to its rateability, and the difficulty attending it. See RATE (5.) Lessee of, in market, is rateable, 104. POINTING PLACES. In a mill are chattels, and their value not included in value of tenement, 539. Adjudication of a parish as last place of settlement, is bad, 749. POOR, CASUAL. See CASUAL POOR. POOR-HOUSE. Overseers may build house, or enlarge suitable tenement, 190, 191, and seil By 43 Eliz. c. 2.. they may purchase or hire any house in the same parish, 185. No settlement gained by residence in such house, ib. Poor refusing to be lodged in such house not entitled to relief, ib. No contract to lodge poor valid unless the contractor reside in the parish, 186. Or in one of united parishes, ib. Responsible householder in the parish to give security for the contractor, ib. Contract to be approved by two justices, ib. to determine by removal of contractor from the parish, ib. Contractors amenable to justices, as overseers, 186, 187. Notice of intended contracts for building to be given, 187. Person misbehaving or refusing to work, &c. in workhouse, may be committed for Property in goods, &c. provided for the poor, vested in overseers, 197. In any return or indictment, goods may be described as their property, ib. Such goods, &c. to be marked, ib. Persons receiving, buying, or taking to pawn property or provisions provided for Persons deserting workhouse and carrying away goods, liable to be committed, ib. POOR-HOUSE-continued. Mark not to be visible on the exterior, 197. Conviction, form of by statute, 199. Enactments in local acts since 1 Geo. I. varying the general poor law, re- pealed, ib. Advantages of workhouses explained, 200. Sale or use of spirits therein prohibited, 201. Relief to Prisoners on Mesne Process in Gaols not County Gaols. Persons under mesne process may be relieved in such gaol by order of a Relief not to exceed 6d. per diem, ib. Settlement of debtor to be ascertained. ib. Order of removal to be made and suspended during debtor's confinement, ib. Copy to be served on the other parish, ib. Overseers of proper parish shall repay the relief given, 202. Appeal within twenty-one days after demand, ib. ; if same exceeds 5l. ib. ; sessions If poor debtor has no legal settlement in England or Wales, the relief shall be Oath of pauper to obtain relief, 203. Warrant thereon to summon overseers, ib. Order of relief or maintenance, 203. POSSESSION. Of parish houses, &c., how recovered, 39. After, for twenty years, a title is inferred from the commencement, 616. I. Relating to Overseers, Assistant Overseers, and Guardians, 861. 1. Warrant for returning lists of overseers, 861. 2. The high constable's warrant to the petty constable, ib. 3. Notice of holding a vestry for nomination of overseers, 862. 4. The return or nomination to be made by the vestry to the magistrates, ib. 6. Usual appointment of overseers for a parish township, &c., ib. 7. Appointment where one of the overseers is a non-resident, 863. 8. Appointment of overseers with printed instructions at foot, ib. 9. The instructions so referred to, ib. 10. Form of nomination by vestry of an assistant overseer, 866. 11. Bond from assistant overseer when appointed by select vestry, 867. 12. Form of appointment of assistant overseer, ib. 13. Mandamus to justices to appoint overseer, 868. 14. Mandamus to the governors and guardians to call a vestry to nominate governors, and prepare list for overseers, 869. 15. Notice of appeal to the sessions against an appointment of an overseer, 870. 16. The other forms and proceedings on such notice of appeal, 871. 17. Notice to be given by overseers to obtain possession, ib. 18. Information of overseer for not quitting pursuant to notice, ib. 19. Summons thereon, ib. 20. Warrant thereon to give possession, ib. II. Forms relating to Poor Rates, ib., 871. 21. Certificate of guardians to magistrates under local act of rate necessary to 22. Justices' order thereon to churchwardens and overseers to make rate accord- 23. Public notice in church of intention to make a poor rate, ib. PRECEDENTS-continued. 11. Forms relating to Poor Rates-continued. 26. Assessment on a gas company for land, houses, warehouses and buildings, 27. Form of rate in London, 874. 28. The usual form of allowance by justices of a rate, ib. 29. Notice of publication of a rate in parish church, ib. 30. Attestation by the minister, 875. 31. Another more concise form, ib. 32. Demand of inspection of rate and of a copy thereof, ib. 33. Declaration for the twenty pounds' penalty for not permitting inspection or 34. The usual notice of appeal against a poor rate to the churchwardens and 35. Notice of appeal against poor rates, 876; the like under local acts, ib. 37. Order for hearing appeal, appointing time, &c., ib. 38. Notice of trial of an appeal against poor's rate several times respited, 879. 39. Notice to produce, 880. 40. Notice of trial of an appeal against poor's rate, (enumerating grounds of 41. Another form of notice of trial of an appeal against a poor's rate—(eight 42. Form of a separate notice to respondents to produce on trial of appeal 43. Order of sessions on hearing appeal confirming on principle a rate on gas 44. Entry of proceeding on an appeal at sessions against a rate and order 45. Case stated of opinion for court of King's Bench as to validity of poor's 46. A summons of one justice to shew cause why a person does not pay poor's 47. A form of a distress warrant thereon for poor's rate where defaulter has 48. Information by overseer against several persons for not paying poor's rate, 49. Summons thereon by the magistrates to shew cause why party neglects to 50. The like information against several persons for non-payment of several rates, 886. 51. Information against one person for nonpayment of a poor's rate, made 52. Precept from the justices to summon several defaulters, ib. 53. Constable's summons thereon, ib. 54. The like form of summons for not paying poor's rate in London, 888. 55. The form of a summons against one person for nonpayment of rate, ib. 59. Justices' warrant to distrain for poor's rate made by the guardians of the 60. The indorsement to be written on the warrant of distress, if it is to be 61. The form of the overseer's return, where no sufficient distress is found, to 62. Commitment thereon, ib. 63. Warrant against a person for arrear of poor's rate under local act of par- III. Forms relating to the Relief and Ordering of the Poor. 64. Notice from overseers of poor to father of pauper, of intended application PRECEDENTS-continued. III. Forms relating to the Relief and Ordering of the Poor-continued. 65. Overseers' complaint thereupon, 893. 66. Order on a parent or child to give relief, &c., ib. 67. Information of an overseer of the poor against a parent or child for disobey - 68. Warrant of distress on a parent or child for disobeying an order of mainte- 69. Commitment of a parent or child for disobeying an order of maintenance, 70. Order to seize the goods and receive the rents of the lands of parents or 71. Assignment of pay by a pensioner, ib. 72. Assignment of a pension of a Chelsea or other pensioner in Scotland, 897. 74. An order, by justices, to overseers, &c., to receive seamen's wages, ib. 77. Warrant to apprehend a person as a rogue and vagabond, having deserted 78. Conviction and commitment of a person as a rogue and vagabond for hav- 79. Commitment of a person, as an incorrigible rogue, for having deserted his 80. Warrant to apprehend a person for not applying a proportion of his earn- 81. Order to seize the goods and receive the rents of houses or lands of persons 82. Usual form of oath by a pauper requiring relief, ib. 83. Usual form of a justices' summons on two overseers, to show cause why 84. Comprehensive form of order of relief by two justices, ib. 85. Depositions of a poor person wanting maintenance, after application at a 86. Summons in London for not relieving a pauper, 902. 87. Summons upon overseers to shew cause why they refuse relief to a poor 88. Another form, ib. 89. Another form, ib. 90. Summary request for overseer to admit to workhouse, 903. 91. Order of one justice for relieving a pauper in a case of urgent necessity, 92. Order of one justice, in case of urgent necessity, for temporary relief until 94. Summons by one justice to overseers, to appear before two, where select 95. Order of two justices to give relief where a select vestry or guardians, &c., 96. Common order of two justices on two overseers to give relief to a poor 99. Form of agreement for the purpose of adopting the provisions of Gilbert's 100. Form of consent and approbation of the justices, 907. 101. Contract for maintenance (justices' assent,) ib. 102. Agreement at a public meeting for two or more parishes, townships, &c. to . PRECEDENTS-continued. III. Forms relating to the Relief and Ordering of the Poor-continued. and 104. The entry to be made by the clerk of the peace or town clerk, 909. 107. Appointment of a visitor of the poor, ib. 108. Appointment of a governor of the poor, 910. 110. Draft by the guardian on the churchwardens and overseers appointed to 111. Appointment of a deputy visitor and assistant, ib. 112. Certificate of serving the office of visitor to the poor, ib. 113. Security for money borrowed for purchasing lands, &c., for the employment 114. Transfer of the security for the money advanced, ib. 115. Workhouse governor's appointment, ib. 116. Order for the admission of a pauper into the poorhouse, ib. 117. Justice's direction to excuse poor person wearing the badge, ib. 118. Commitment of a pauper maintained in a workhouse, for disorderly con- 119. Commitment of a person for misbehaviour in a workhouse, ib. IV. Forms relating to Overseers' Accounts, &c. 120. Account A, rates and whether recorded or not, 913. 121. Account B, rates of four years, ib. 122. Account C, statement of receipts, ib. 123. Account D, statement of gift monies, ib. 124. Account E, statement of disbursements, ib. 125. Account F, a total account, ib. 126. Account book of relief of out-door poor, 914. 128. Notice requiring churchwardens, &c., in London, to return lists of poor children, &c., ib. 129. Overseers' account of infant poor, 916. 130. Requisition for return to be made, 920. 131. Allowance of overseer's account, under 50 Geo. III. c. 49, 920, n. (a) V. Forms relating to Settlements. 139. Order of two justices upon churchwardens and overseers of parish where 140. Indorsement on order of removal of a mother, ordering parish from which 141. Prescribed form of indenture of binding apprentice to a chimney-sweeper, 142. Prescribed form of approbation thereof by justices, ib. 143. Prescribed form, in parish indenture, of persons to be added to the covenant 144. Prescribed form, in parish indenture, of order of two justices, directing a 145. Prescribed form of like order by a separate instrument, ib. |