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... Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into Public Charities ; and the Summary of those Reports , pre- sented to ... Report preceded the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 , state their conviction that these charities ...
... Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into Public Charities ; and the Summary of those Reports , pre- sented to ... Report preceded the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 , state their conviction that these charities ...
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... Report , the legislature had not only expressed a view similar to that now taken by these commissioners , in respect of such foundations , but , in the very first statute which pro- vides for the raising of a common fund for relief of ...
... Report , the legislature had not only expressed a view similar to that now taken by these commissioners , in respect of such foundations , but , in the very first statute which pro- vides for the raising of a common fund for relief of ...
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... report , by the Poor Law Board . * It is there said , " As regards the number of paupers relieved , it has been the practice heretofore to take the number relieved during the quarter ended at Lady - day in each year , as re- presenting ...
... report , by the Poor Law Board . * It is there said , " As regards the number of paupers relieved , it has been the practice heretofore to take the number relieved during the quarter ended at Lady - day in each year , as re- presenting ...
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... Report , from comparison of the two classes of returns , seem to be equally unfounded . " The mode formerly adopted for ascertaining the number of persons in receipt of relief , although affording a means of comparing the pauperism of ...
... Report , from comparison of the two classes of returns , seem to be equally unfounded . " The mode formerly adopted for ascertaining the number of persons in receipt of relief , although affording a means of comparing the pauperism of ...
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... report , made by Mr. Doyle to the Poor Law Board , and published since most of these pages were written , to ascertain pretty closely the proportion between widows and widowers who constitute the 7 per cent , varies greatly in different ...
... report , made by Mr. Doyle to the Poor Law Board , and published since most of these pages were written , to ascertain pretty closely the proportion between widows and widowers who constitute the 7 per cent , varies greatly in different ...
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25th March administration agricultural counties agricultural labourer alms amount Annual appears average number bishop century chargeable charity Charles II Church classes clergy cloth condition cottages destitution Dorset Edition England and Wales Engravings evils existing expended half-year Henry VIII History houses impotent poor In-door increase inhabitants JANE MARCET justices justices of peace labour Lady-day land landowners law of settlement legislation London Lord lunatic ment metropolis morocco nearly number of paupers number of persons order of removal out-door relief overseers parish parliament parochial paupers relieved persons relieved Poor Law Board Poor Law Commissioners poor persons poor-rate population Post 8vo present proportion provision quarter ratepayers receiving relief reign rental repeal Report residence respect serf settlement and removal Stafford West statute of Charles statute of Elizabeth THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY towns union vagrant villein whole number Woodcuts workhouses Worksop