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

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    said division (a) in which he usually acted, to answer her complaint touching the premises : (b) And that the said having been duly served with the said summons, within forty days from the said day of and that the said having then applied to the said justices in petty sessions assembled for an order upon the said according to the form of the statute in such case made and provided: And that it having been then proved to the said justices that the said child was since (c) the passing of an act passed in the eighth year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled “ An Act for the further Amend¬ ment of the Laws relating to the Poor in England,” (that is to say,) on the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty born a bastard of the body of the said : And that the said justices, having heard the evidence of such woman, and such other evidence as she had produced, and the evidence of the said the mother of the said child, having been corroborated in some material particular by other testimony, to their satisfaction, did adjudge the said to be the putative father of the said child, and, having regard to all the circumstances of that case, did order that the said should pay unto the mother of the said bastard child, so long as she should live and be of sound mind, and be not in any gaol or prison, or under sentence of transportation, or to the person who might be appointed to have the custody of such child, under the provisions of the said statute, the sum of until the said child should attain the age of thirteen years, or should die, or the said should marry : And they did further order the said to pay to the said the sum of being the costs incurred in obtaining such order : And whereas the said hath not married since the making of the said order, but hath lately (d) and the said child is still alive, and under the age of thirteen: Now we two of her Majesty’s justices of the peace acting in and for the county (a) of do hereby order and appoint one of (a) or city, borough, or other place. (b) This form must be completed, in regard to the recitals, by reference to the order of the justices. (c) or within six calendar months before. (d) died, or become of unsound mind, or is now in the gaol or prison of in the county of , or is under sentence of transportation.