The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer, Volume 4

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Page 197 - Majesty that it may be enacted . . . that, whereas by reason of some defects in the law, poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy...
Page 680 - CD ; and if, within the space of days next after the making of such, distress, the said last-mentioned sum, together with the reasonable charges of taking and keeping the said distress shall not be paid, that then you do sell the said goods...
Page 11 - ... or them executed and performed, and to fix such yearly salary for the execution of the said office as shall by such inhabitants in vestry be thought, fit ; and it shall be lawful for any two of his Majesty's justices of the peace, and they are hereby...
Page 120 - Person not able to work, being of sufficient ability, shall at their own charges, relieve and maintain every such poor Person in that manner, and according to that Rate, as by the Justices of the Peace of that County where such sufficient Persons dwell, or the greater number of them, at their general Quarter Sessions, shall be assessed: upon pain that every one of them shall forfeit twenty shillings for every Month, which they shall fail therein.
Page 119 - That the Father and Grandfather, and the Mother and Grandmother, and the Children of every poor, old, blind, lame and impotent Person, or other poor Person not able to work, being of...
Page 2 - Easter, under the hand and seal of two or more justices of the peace in the same county, whereof one to be of the quorum, dwelling in or near the same parish or division where the same parish doth lie, shall be called overseers of the poor...
Page 34 - ... taxation of every inhabitant, parson, vicar and other, and of every occupier of lands, houses, tithes impropriate, propriations of tithes, coal-mines, or saleable underwoods in the said parish...
Page 441 - ... last legally settled, either as a native, householder, sojourner, apprentice or servant, for the space of forty days at the least...
Page 27 - Action may plead the General Issue and give the special Matter in Evidence...
Page 34 - ... a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work : and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them being poor and unable to work, and also for the putting out of such children to be apprentices, to be gathered out of the same parish...

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