Transactions, Volume 1

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Page 114 - ... and the superintending, inspecting, and regulating of the houses wherein such poor children are kept and maintained, and for the apprenticing the children of poor persons, and for the guidance and control of all guardians, vestries, and parish officers, so far as relates to the management or relief of the poor, and the keeping, examining, auditing, and allowing of accounts...
Page 116 - Tenant's Rates and Taxes, and Tithe Commutation Rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such Rent...
Page 106 - ... to erect, build, and set up in fit and convenient places of habitation in such waste or common, at the general charges of the parish or otherwise of the hundred or county as aforesaid, to be taxed, rated, and gathered in manner before expressed, convenient houses of dwelling for the said impotent poor; and also to place inmates or more families than one in one cottage...
Page 116 - Commissioners shall by any order under their seal of office-direct, no rate for the relief of the poor in England and Wales shall be allowed by any justices, or be of any force, which shall not be made upon an estimate of the net annual value of the several hereditaments rated thereunto ; that is to say, of the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenants...
Page 115 - ... not herein otherwise provided for which shall be necessarily incurred in carrying into effect the provisions of this act...
Page 106 - Parish, in such competent sum and sums of money as they shall think fit) a convenient stock of Flax, Hemp, Wool, Thread, Iron, and other Ware and Stuff, to set the poor on work...
Page 104 - Counties of or in the borders or confines of the same, by rage of the sea, flowing and reflowing, and by mean of the trenches of fresh waters descending and having course by divers ways to the sea...
Page 119 - WHEREAS further and more effectual provision ought to be made for improving the sanitary condition of towns and populous places in England and Wales, and it is expedient that the supply of water to such towns and places, and the sewerage, drainage, cleansing, and paving thereof, should, as far as practicable, be placed under one and the same local management and control...
Page 22 - But och ! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her; And gather gear by every wile That's justified by honour; Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant; But for the glorious privilege Of being independent.
Page 112 - Minerals from any Mine, shall be feloniously demolished, pulled down, or destroyed, wholly or in part, by any Persons riotously and tumultuously assembled together, in every...

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