Parliamentary Papers, Volume 8H.M. Stationery Office, 1895 - Bills, Legislative |
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16th instant 20th February 21st February 22nd February able-bodied agricultural amongst amount of distress applications for relief Assessable Value 1892-93 average daily number Board of Guardians Chairman Chairman-continued circular coal Corporation daily number relieved deal destitution distributed employed ended 16th February exceptional distress families give given Government Board increase January Keir-Hardie large number Letter Mayor meet the distress MUNICIPAL BOROUGH number of applications number of persons opinion organised out-door outdoor relief owing parish paupers Poor Law Population 1891 present public authorities question Rateable Value received regard register is maintained relief committee relief fund relieving officers reply RURAL DISTRICT severe weather Sir HUGH OWEN soup kitchen stone-yard subscriptions suggestions tickets Town Clerk unemployed register URBAN DISTRICT LANCASTER URBAN DISTRICT YORK Vestry voluntary agencies want of employment week ended 16th week ended Saturday West Ham WEST RIDING winter Wootton Isaacson workhouse
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Page 7 - WE, THE POOR LAW BOARD, 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 45 - Peace as is aforesaid, for setting to work the Children of all such whose Parents shall not, by the said Churchwardens and Overseers, or the greater Part of them...
Page 9 - Where such persons shall require relief on account of any sickness, accident, or bodily or mental infirmity affecting such person, or any of his or her family.
Page 8 - Person, and Females as well as Males, and several Matters or Things as well as one Matter or Thing, respectively, unless there shall be something in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction.
Page 53 - The spirit of independence which leads so many of the working classes to make great personal sacrifices rather than incur the stigma of pauperism, is one which deserves the greatest sympathy and respect, and which it is the duty and interest of the community to maintain by all the means at its disposal.
Page 9 - 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 8 - Act, any relief, or the cost price thereof, which shall be given to or on account of any poor person above the age of twenty-one, or to his wife, or any part of his family under the age of sixteen, and which...
Page 30 - ... declare to what Extent and for what Period the Relief to be given to able-bodied Persons or to their Families in any particular Parish or Union may be administered out of the Workhouse of such Parish or Union, by Payments in Money, or with Food or Clothing in Kind, or partly in Kind and partly in Money, and in what Proportions, to what Persons or Class of Persons, at what Times and Places, on what Conditions, and in what Manner such Out-door Relief may be afforded...
Page 45 - Poor, it shall be lawful for the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of any Parish, with the Consent of the Inhabitants in Vestry assembled, to let any Portion and Portions of such Parish Land as aforesaid...
Page 30 - Commissioners shall and are hereby authorized and required, from Time to Time as they shall see Occasion, to make and issue all such Rules, Orders, and Regulations for the Management of the Poor, for the Government of Workhouses...