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... respective office , or exercise any of the powers given by this act , for a longer period than five years next after the day of the passing of this act , and thenceforth until the end of the then next session of parliament ; and from ...
... respective office , or exercise any of the powers given by this act , for a longer period than five years next after the day of the passing of this act , and thenceforth until the end of the then next session of parliament ; and from ...
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... respective parish or union which in the opinion of the said commis- sioners shall be interested or concerned in such attendance or production respectively , in all cases in which such witnesses shall not go or travel more than ten miles ...
... respective parish or union which in the opinion of the said commis- sioners shall be interested or concerned in such attendance or production respectively , in all cases in which such witnesses shall not go or travel more than ten miles ...
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... respectively , and also all the powers and authorities given by every other act of par- liament , general as well as local , for or relating to the building , altering , or enlarging of poor- houses and workhouses , and to the acquiring ...
... respectively , and also all the powers and authorities given by every other act of par- liament , general as well as local , for or relating to the building , altering , or enlarging of poor- houses and workhouses , and to the acquiring ...
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... respectively , and every of them , shall be local boards entitled to attend at every parochial and other local board and vestry , and take part in the dis- cussions , but not to vote at such board or ves- try ; provided always , that ...
... respectively , and every of them , shall be local boards entitled to attend at every parochial and other local board and vestry , and take part in the dis- cussions , but not to vote at such board or ves- try ; provided always , that ...
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... respective parishes or unions , or to borrow money for such purposes under the provisions of this or any other act or acts . ( 20 ) XXIV . And be it further enacted , that for the ( 20 ) See sect . 21 , ante . better and more ...
... respective parishes or unions , or to borrow money for such purposes under the provisions of this or any other act or acts . ( 20 ) XXIV . And be it further enacted , that for the ( 20 ) See sect . 21 , ante . better and more ...
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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...