FORM H.

CERTIFICATE of Auditor.

I have examined all the items in this account, and compared them with the vouchers, and I do hereby certify and declare that every entry allowed by me is correct, and in strict conformity with the rules, orders, and regulations of the Poor Law Commissioners, and the provisions of 4 & 5 W. 4. c. 76.

To A. B. and C. D., Churchwardens and Overseers [or Overseers, as the case may be] of the Parish [or Township, as the case may be].

You are hereby authorized and directed to pay to F. G.

of
at

shillings and

on the the sum of

day of pounds

pence, from the poorrates of the said parish [or township, as the case may be], towards the relief of the poor thereof, and towards defraying such proportion of the general expenses of the Union as is lawfully chargeable on the said parish [or township, as the case may be], and you shall take the receipt of the said F. G. for the said sum of £

Given under our hands, at the meeting of the Guardians of the said Union, held on the

day of

ORDERS AND REGULATIONS

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF

THE WORKHOUSES AND POORHOUSES

OF THE

UNION.

ADMISSION OF PAUPERS.

I. PAUPERS may be received into the workhouse in any one of the following modes, and in no other, viz.

By an order of the Board of Guardians, signified in writing. By a provisional order in writing, signed by a relieving officer.

By the master of the workhouse, without any such order, in case of any sudden or urgent necessity.

II. No pauper shall be admitted under any written order as above mentioned, if the same bear date more than six days before the pauper presents it, and claims to be admitted.

III. If a pauper be admitted by the provisional order of a relieving officer, or by the master of the workhouse, in a case of sudden and urgent necessity, the admission of such pauper shall be brought before the Board of Guardians at their next weekly meeting, who shall decide on the propriety of the pauper's continuing in the workhouse or otherwise, and order accordingly.

IV. As soon as a pauper is admitted, he or she shall be placed in some probationary room, and shall there remain until examined by the medical officer of the workhouse.

V. If the medical officer upon such examination pronounces the pauper to be labouring under any disease of body or mind, the pauper shall be placed either in the sick ward, or the ward for lunatics and idiots not dangerous, as the medical officer shall direct.

VI. If the medical officer pronounces the pauper to be free from disease, the pauper shall be placed in the workhouse assigned to the class to which he or she may belong, and shall

thereafter be treated according to the regulations hereinafter contained.

VII. Before removal from the probationary ward, the pauper shall be thoroughly cleansed, and if adult, shall be clothed in the workhouse dress; and the clothes which he or she wore upon admission shall be purified, and deposited in a place to be appropriated for that purpose, to be restored to the pauper on leaving the workhouse.

VIII. The clothing of the paupers shall be made of such materials as the Board of Guardians shall determine, and shall, so far as possible, be made by the paupers in the workhouse.

CLASSIFICATION OF PAUPERS.

IX. The indoor paupers shall be classed as follows, and to each class shall be assigned by the Board of Guardians that workhouse or poorhouse which may be best fitted for the reception of such class, and in which they shall respectively remain unless as is hereinafter provided.

1. Aged or infirm men.

2. Able-bodied men, and youths above thirteen.

3. Youths and boys above seven years old and under thir

teen.

4. Aged or infirm women.

5. Able-bodied women, and girls above sixteen.

6. Girls above seven years of age and under sixteen.

7. Children under seven years of age.

Provided that, if in special cases the Board of Guardians deem it advisable, that they shall be at liberty to make exceptions to the above classification of the inmates of any of the workhouses, in favour of individuals of the first and fourth classes.

Provided also, that it shall be in the discretion of the Guardians to place any boy, between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, in either of the classes 2 or 3.

X. Any paupers may be taken out of their respective classes, and employed as nurses or as assistants to the nurses in any of the sick wards, or in the care of infants, or as superintendents or assistants in the household work for any of the classes, and may be so employed either constantly or occasionally. Provided always, that no pauper of the fifth or sixth class be allowed personal communication with any pauper of the second or third class, except as nurse or as assistant to a nurse.

XI. The children of the seventh class shall be placed either in a ward by themselves, or in such of the wards appropriated to the female paupers as the Board of Guardians shall direct.The mothers of such children to be permitted to have access to them, at such reasonable times as the Guardians shall appoint.

-With the foregoing exceptions, no pauper of one class shall be allowed to enter the wards or yards appropriated to any other

class.

XII. The paupers of the several establishments comprised in the parish or Union, shall be employed in any work which may be needed, and of which they may be capable, for the use of any or all of the establishments within the Union, or in any other way the Board of Guardians may direct.

DISCIPLINE AND DIET.

XIII. All the paupers in the workhouse, except the sick, the aged and infirm, and the young children, shall rise, be set to work, and be kept to work twelve hours each day in summer and eleven hours in winter, including meals, for which two hours in the whole shall be allowed and no more.

XIV. Half an hour after the bell shall have been rung for rising, the names shall be called over in the several wards provided for the second, third, fifth, and sixth classes, when every pauper belonging to the ward must be present, to answer to his or her name, and to be inspected by the master or matron, except by reason of sickness or tender years.

XV. No pauper of the second, third, fifth, or sixth classes, shall be allowed to go or to remain in his or her sleeping-ward, either in the time hereby allotted for work, or in the intervals allowed for meals, except by permission of the master.

XVI. As regards aged and infirm persons and children, the master and matron of the workhouse shall (subject to the directions of the Board of Guardians) fix such hours of rising and going to bed, and such occupation and employment as may be suitable to their respective ages and conditions.

XVII. The boys and girls who are inmates of the workhouse shall, for three of the working hours, at least, every day, be respectively instructed in reading, writing, and in the principles of the Christian religion, and such other instructions shall be imparted to them as are calculated to train them to habits of usefulness, industry, and virtue.

XVIII. The meals for the aged and infirm, the sick, and children, shall be provided at such times and in such manner as the Board of Guardians may direct.

XIX. The diet of the able-bodied paupers shall be so regulated as in no case to exceed in quantity and quality of food, the ordinary diet of any class of able-bodied labourers living within the same district.

XX. No pauper shall be allowed to have or use any wine, beer, or other spirituous or fermented liquors, unless by the direction in writing of the medical officer, who may also order for any individual pauper such change of diet as he shall deem

necessary; and the master shall report such allowance or changes of diet so made, to the next meeting of Guardians, who may sanction, alter, or disallow the same at their discretion.

XXI. No pauper shall be allowed to work on his own account whilst an inmate of the workhouse; the Union which supports him being entitled to the full produce of his labour.

XXII. Any pauper may quit the workhouse giving the master three hours' previous notice of his wish to do so; but no ablebodied pauper, having a family, shall so quit the house without taking the whole of such family with him or her, unless the Board of Guardians shall otherwise direct; nor shall any pauper, after so quitting the house, be again received into the house, unless in one of the modes prescribed in Rule I. for the admission of paupers,

XXIII. No person shall be allowed to visit any pauper in the workhouse, except by permission of the master, and subject to such conditions and restrictions as the Board of Guardians may direct; provided that the interview shall always take place in the presence of the master or matron, and in a room separate from the other inmates of the workhouse, unless in case of sickness Provided also, that any licensed minister of the religious persuasion of any inmate of such work house, at all times in the day, on the request of such inmate, may visit such workhouse for the purpose of affording religious assistance to such inmate, and also for the purpose of instructing his child or children in the principles of their religion-such religious assistance, and such instruction, being strictly confined to inmates who are of the religious persuasion of such licensed minister, and to the children of such inmates.

XXIV. No work, except the household work and cooking, shall be performed by the paupers on Sunday.

XXV. All the paupers shall attend Divine Service, except the sick and the young children, and such as are too infirm to do so, and except also those paupers who may object so to attend, on account of their professing religious principles differing from those of the church of England.

XXVI. Any pauper who shall neglect to observe such of the foregoing rules as are applicable to him or her,

Or who shall make any noise when silence is ordered;
Or use obscene or profane language;

Or by word or deed insult or revile any other pauper in the workhouse;

Or who shall not duly cleanse his or her person;

Or neglect or refuse to work;

Or pretend sickness;

Or who shall wilfully waste or spoil any provisions, or stock, or tools, or materials for work;

Or wilfully damage any property whatsoever belonging to the parish or Union;