Shaw's union officers' manual of duties [afterw.] Shaws' (The) Local government manual and directory |
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15 common law attend Audit Districts Bank Bart board of guardians borough bridge Bristol bury certificate Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen Chairmen RELIEF DISTRICTS Charles Chas chester Clerks commissioners common law common law sheets COUNTIES AND UNIONS County Asylum Davies Day of Meeting Earl East Edward Edwd Evans exceeding f.Th ford further duty Gateshead George Henry House James John John Henry Gurney Jones Joseph King's Lynn Leicester Liverpool Llanrwst London Lord Machynlleth Maldon Market Bosworth Mary Masters mates medical officer minster North North Shields Norwich ordinary meeting overseers pauper Peter places locally situated poor law board poor person Population in 1841 Pwllheli Reference to Audit relieving officer Richard Richd Robert Robt Salop Samuel Second Smith South South Molton Southampton Spilsby Street Thomas Thos Thrapston Treasurers Trinity Uckfield Ulverstone Union The Union West William Wood workhouse
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Page 41 - No. 12. To prepare and transmit all reports, answers, or returns, as to any question or matter connected with or relating to the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor in the union, or to any other business of the union, which...
Page 49 - England, at least once in every month, and to make a record of the same, and state the dates of his attendance, the general progress and condition of the children, and the moral and religious state of the inmates generally, in a book to be kept for that purpose, to be laid before the guardians at their next ordinary meeting, and to be termed
Page 58 - That if any officer of any parish or union do, contrary to law, with intent to cause any poor person to become chargeable to any parish to which such person was not then chargeable, convey any poor person out of the parish for which such officer acts, or cause or procure any poor person to be so conveyed, or give directly or indirectly any money, relief, or assistance, or...
Page 19 - APPRAISEMENT or valuation of any property, or of any interest therein, or of the annual value thereof, or of any dilapidations, or of any repairs wanted, or of the materials and labour used or to be used in any building, or of any artificers
Page 53 - Art. 213. The following shall be the duties of a Nurse for the Workhouse : — No. 1. To attend upon the sick in the sick and lying-in wards, and to administer to them all medicines and medical applications, according to the directions of the Medical Officer. No. 2. To inform the Medical Officer of any defects which may be observed in the arrangements of the sick or lying-in ward. No. 3. To take care that a light is kept at night in the sick ward.
Page 19 - Letters containing any agreement (not before exempted) in respect of any merchandise, or evidence of such an agreement, which shall pass by the post, between merchants or other persons carrying on trade or commerce, in Great Britain, and residing and actually being, at the time of sending such letters, at the distance of fifty miles from each other.
Page 54 - No person shall hold the office of relieving officer unless he be able to keep accounts, and unless he reside in the district for which he may be appointed to act, devote his whole time to the performance of the duties of his office, and abstain from following any trade or profession, and from entering into any other service.
Page 22 - Where the person or persons entitled to any beneficial interest in such property shall be the brother or sister of the father or mother or a descendant of a brother or sister of the father or mother of the decedent, at the rate of three per centum of the clear value of such interest iu such property.
Page 25 - ... or for life, or other partial interest, or in any other manner whatsoever; If such sum or sums of money , or the value of such share or shares in all or any of the said stocks or funds, or both, shall not amount to 1000?.
Page 47 - To give directions and make suggestions as to the diet classification, and treatment of the sick paupers, and paupers of unsound mind, and to report to the Guardians any pauper of unsound mind in the workhouse whom he may deem to be dangerous, or fit to be sent to a lunatic asylum.