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... workhouse ( c ) ; and that in cases of sudden and urgent necessity , even in places where the poor are under the manage- ment of guardians or a select vestry , the overseer shall give tem- porary relief , in articles of absolute ...
... workhouse ( c ) ; and that in cases of sudden and urgent necessity , even in places where the poor are under the manage- ment of guardians or a select vestry , the overseer shall give tem- porary relief , in articles of absolute ...
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... workhouses to attend a mode of worship contrary to their religious principles , or of causing children to be educated ... workhouse , may order one to be built ( r ) ; and money borrowed for that purpose ( f ) Sect . 15 . ( h ) See sect ...
... workhouses to attend a mode of worship contrary to their religious principles , or of causing children to be educated ... workhouse , may order one to be built ( r ) ; and money borrowed for that purpose ( f ) Sect . 15 . ( h ) See sect ...
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... workhouse , the Commissioners may order it to be enlarged or altered , without such consent , if the sum required ... workhouses , may be exercised by the persons to whom they are therein given , but under the control , and subject to ...
... workhouse , the Commissioners may order it to be enlarged or altered , without such consent , if the sum required ... workhouses , may be exercised by the persons to whom they are therein given , but under the control , and subject to ...
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... workhouse , & c . By that act also , parishes might unite for the purpose of maintaining their poor , and have a common workhouse ; in which case one guardian was appointed for each parish , and all collectively had the ordering and ...
... workhouse , & c . By that act also , parishes might unite for the purpose of maintaining their poor , and have a common workhouse ; in which case one guardian was appointed for each parish , and all collectively had the ordering and ...
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... workhouse , the order containing a certificate of one of the jus- tices , of his own knowledge , that the person is wholly unable to work ( r ) . And if any overseer disobey the orders of guardians or justices , in carrying the rules ...
... workhouse , the order containing a certificate of one of the jus- tices , of his own knowledge , that the person is wholly unable to work ( r ) . And if any overseer disobey the orders of guardians or justices , in carrying the rules ...
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The Act for the Amendment of the Poor Laws John Frederick Archbold,Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners No preview available - 2023 |
The ACT for the Amendment of the Poor Laws John Frederick Archbold,Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners No preview available - 2018 |
The ACT for the Amendment of the Poor Laws John Frederick Archbold,Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners No preview available - 2015 |
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act of parliament act passed adopting this act aforesaid allowed appeal application appointed apprentice authority Berbice Board of Guardians borough certiorari chargeable child Child Okeford churchwar churchwardens and overseers clerk consent Court held deemed direct duly election Elmley Castle expense forty days further enacted gained a settlement George the Third given guar hands and seals hereditaments hiring and service indenture intituled An Act justices land late Majesty King liable Lords spiritual mandamus manner master ment notice occupied offence order of removal overseers or guardians paid parish officers parish or place parish or union parishioners party pauper payment peace penalty Poor Law Commissioners poor person purpose quarter sessions rate-payers rateable received regulations reign relief resided respectively rules Seaton Ross Sect served stat statute tenement therein thereof think fit tion town corporate township vestry vestrymen votes workhouse yearly rent
Popular passages
Page 146 - ... and abide the order of and pay such costs as shall be awarded by the justices at such general or quarter sessions...
Page 147 - ... done under or by virtue of this Act, or if it shall appear that such action or suit was brought before Twenty-one Days...
Page 129 - ... to the use of His Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the other moiety to the use of the person who shall inform or sue for the same...
Page 144 - Money by virtue of this Act, the Distress itself shall not be deemed unlawful, nor the Party making the same...
Page 216 - THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS, in pursuance of the authorities vested in Us by an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales...
Page 147 - Plaintiff in such Action or Suit shall become Nonsuit, or suffer a Discontinuance of such Action, or if, upon any Demurrer in such Action, Judgment shall be given for the Defendant therein, then...
Page 136 - Justices shall and they are hereby required to commit such Offender to the Common Gaol or House of Correction for the County...
Page 142 - Justice, on such day or days as shall be appointed for the return of such warrant of distress, such day or days not being more than seven days from the time of taking any such security, and...
Page 216 - Fourth, or of any former act concerning bankrupts, or of an act passed in the first and second years of the reign of his Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled an act to establish a court of bankruptcy...
Page 30 - ... of all such persons as they may think fit to call before them upon any question or matter connected with or relating to the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor, and...