...statute. Still there is nothing in the enactment that the overseers should "raise, &c., a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron, and other...necessary ware and stuff", to set the poor on work;" nor we believe in any decided case on the subject which authorizes the use of labour, discipline, restraint,...

...maintain them, and using no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by ;" and funds for " the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind,...other among them being poor and not able to work." Here are two distinct responsibilities admitted ; to provide labour for applicants who are capable...

...wool, thread, iron, and other ware, and stuff to set tfie poor on work, and also competent sums for the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them, being poor, as are not able to work, and also for putting out poor children apprentices."-)- " The churchwardens...

...saleable underwoods in the said parish,) a convenient stofk of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron, and other ware, and stuff to set the poor on work, and also competent sums for the necessary relief of the lanu>, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them, being poor,...

...the statute of 43 Eliz., c. 2, s. I, the rate is to be "applied to the setting the poor on work, to the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind,...other among them being poor and not able to work, and also for the putting out of children to be apprentices.1' Other statutes make provision for the application...

...thing of the nature of the allowance system. The further words of the statute, for providing for ' the necessary relief of the lame, ' impotent, old,...other among them being poor ' and not able to work," as well as those ' who have no means to ' maintain them,' excludes those from relief who have any means,...

...of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such others as are poor and not able to work. 3d. To provide hemp, wool, thread, iron, and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor to work. Thus those who were able were to be set to work; those who were unable to work were to be...

...underwoods in the said parish, in such competent sum and sums of money as they shall think fit) a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron, and other...lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them, fejsg poor, and not aWe to work, and also for the putting out of tuck children 5. Ovtrutn. la be apprentice*,...

...life to " get their living by;" and also to raise by taxation, &c. a convenient stock of flax, &c. to set the poor on work, and also competent sums of...other among " them being poor and not able to work." To the mal-administration of this Act may be fairly attributed the evils of the late English poor-law...

...to adhere strictly to the provisions of the statute of the 43rd of Elizabeth, in administering to " the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind,...other among them being poor and not able to work," as well as in relieving the children and the able-bodied. By the words of that statute, you are only...