An act to amend the laws relating to the removal of the poor / Jellinger C. Symons.

  • Symons, Jelinger C. (Jelinger Cookson), 1809-1860.
Date:
1846
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An act to amend the laws relating to the removal of the poor / Jellinger C. Symons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAWS RELATING TO THE REMOVAL OF THE POOR, 9 & 10 Vict. c. 66. L Whereas it is expedient that the laws relating to the removal of the poor should be amended: Be it enacted by the Queen’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act no person shall be removed, nor shall any warrant be granted for the removal of any person, from any parish in which such person shall have resided for five years next before No person to be re¬ moved from any parish in which he or she shall have re¬ sided for five years. the application for the warrant: (a) Provided always, Time du- (a) “ Residing” means sleeping in a parish. It may very well be therefore that a man should have resided in one