Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales, Volume 9Poor Law Commission Office, 1843 - Poor |
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accounts Act of Parliament adverted amount annual apothecary appears application appointed asylum attend Board of Guardians Bristol bye-laws Canterbury charge Chorlton Chorlton Union churchwardens and overseers city and county city of Bristol city of Canterbury classes clerk committee of relief common seal corporation court or assembly directors districts Ditto duties elected electoral division employment enacted England expenditure expense Gilbert's Act house of industry inmates Irish Poor Relief justices labour Law Amendment Act Local Acts lunatic Majesty's Government Mary matron Maximum Number medical officer meeting ment mode Number of Paupers number of persons Nurse paid parochial passed Paupers in Workhouse payment Peter's Hospital Poor Law Amendment Poor Law Commissioners Poor of St poor persons Poor Relief Act poor-rates present provisions purpose Quarter ended rate-payers rates receive regulations relieving officer Report residence respect ROBERT WEALE salaries tion town vestry wards weekly
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Page 91 - ... 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 not able to work, and...
Page 375 - 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 363 - If any man come unto me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Page 376 - If any officer or assistant, appointed to or holding any office or employment under this Order, be at any time prevented by sickness or accident, or other sufficient reason, from the performance of his duties, the Guardians may appoint a fit person to act as his temporary substitute, and may pay him a reasonable compensation for his services ; and every such appointment shall be reported to the Commissioners as soon as the same shall have been made.
Page 391 - Under the authority of an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the First and Second years of the reign of her present Majesty, Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act for the more effectual Relief of' the Destitute Poor in Ireland...
Page 101 - To bind out poor children apprentices, no matter to whom, or to what trade, but to take especial care that the master live in another parish : To move heaven and earth if any dispute happens about a settlement, and in that particular to invert the general rule, and stick at no expense: To...
Page 41 - As to there being no obligation for maintaining poor foreigners before the statutes ascertaining the different methods of acquiring settlements, the law of humanity, which is anterior to all positive laws, obliges us to afford them relief to save them from starving...
Page 101 - To bargain with some sturdy person to take them by the lump, who yet is not intended to take them, but to hang over them in terrorem if they shall complain to the justices for want of maintenance...
Page 376 - The salary of every officer or assistant appointed to or holding any office or employment under this order shall be payable up to the day on which he ceases to hold such office or employment, and no longer.
Page 375 - To the Clerk or Clerks to the Justices of the Petty Sessions held for the Division or Divisions in which the Parishes and Places comprised within the said respective Unions are situate ; — And to all others whom it may concern.