Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales, Volume 1; Volumes 1834-1835Poor Law Commission Office, 1835 - Charities |
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able-bodied paupers aged allowed Amersham amount application appointed attend auditor average bastard Bedfordshire better Biggleswade Bill Bledlow board of guardians bread charge Chesham churchwardens and overseers clerk Commissioners for England cottage Declared to take direct district duties earnings EDWIN CHADWICK effect election emigration employed employer employment England and Wales expenses families Faringdon farmers Form Gilbert's Act given hereby In-door increase independent labourer inmates inquiries June 24 Lancashire Law Amendment Act magistrates March 25 married couples master medical officer ment migration Mutford and Lothingland names operation out-door relief Out-Relief paid parish officers parish or place Parishes United parochial payment Poor Law Amendment Poor Law Commission Poor Law Commissioners poor-rates population present quarter rate-payers receipt received regulations relieving officer respect rules Thakeham tion Total Union vestry wages week weekly meeting wife workhouse
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Page 76 - WE, 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 65 - MAJESTY to make a diligent and full inquiry into the practical operation of the Laws for the Relief of the Poor in England and Wales...
Page 72 - Seal, to declare so many Parishes as they may think fit to be united for the Administration of the Laws for the Relief of the Poor...
Page 91 - ... of an Act passed in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled " An Act for the amendment of the Law and the better advancement of Justice...
Page 82 - ... that relief shall be given to any adult person who shall from old age or infirmity of body be wholly unable to work, without requiring that such person shall reside in any workhouse...
Page 264 - ... workhouse would not be a hardship: and even if it be, in some rare cases, a hardship, it appears from the evidence that it is a hardship to which the good of society requires the applicant to submit. The express or implied ground of his application...
Page 95 - Before being removed from the receiving ward, the pauper shall be thoroughly cleansed, and shall be clothed in a workhouse dress, and the clothes which he wore at the time of his admission shall be purified, and deposited in a place appropriated for that purpose, with the pauper's name affixed thereto. Such clothes shall be restored to the pauper when he leaves the workhouse.
Page 84 - ... shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of the person to whom such information relates, or his duly authorized agent or attorney.
Page 360 - And, be it further enacted, that all infant children of tender years, and who, from accident or misfortune, shall become...
Page 97 - Parent shall object, or, in the Case of an Orphan, to which the Godfather or Godmother of such Orphan shall so object: Provided also, that it shall and may be lawful for any licensed Minister of the Religious Persuasion of any Inmate of such Workhouse, at all Times in the Day, on the Request of such Inmate, to visit such Workhouse for the Purpose of affording Religious Assistance to such Inmate, and also for the Purpose of instructing his Child or Children in the Principles of their Religion.