A scheme for the better relief and employment of the poor ; humbly submitted to the consideration of His Majesty and two Houses of Parliament / By a Member of Parliament [i.e. Thomas Gilbert].

  • Gilbert, Thomas, 1720-1789.
Date:
[1764]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A scheme for the better relief and employment of the poor ; humbly submitted to the consideration of His Majesty and two Houses of Parliament / By a Member of Parliament [i.e. Thomas Gilbert]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    m Two Shillings and Sixpence, and to be paid out of the Money borrowed. Thefe Alignments to be transferred by Indorfement figned by the Party intitled to the Money. Every Alignment and Transfer to be entered by the Clerk. That Interefl: of the Money fo to be borrowed, the Principal when to be paid off, and the neceffary Expence of maintain¬ ing and employing the Poor, and carrying all the Purpofes of the Act into Execution, to be levied and collected by the Poors Rates in each Parifh, Townfhip and extraparochial Place within the Diflrict, in proportion to the Sum which each Parifh, Townfhip or Place, has paid upon a Medium of the Four preced¬ ing Years, for or upon account of their Poor* OBSERVATION. This 'Proportion will be eafily found, and it appears jufl and reafonable, that each Parifh, Townfhip and Place, (hould contribute to this Expence, in proportion to their prefent Burden ; if it produces the falutary Relief expe&ed', they will have the Benefit of it in the fame Proportion. That in order to afcertain what Sums have been expended, the Juftices of Peace in every Hundred or Divifion, wherein fuch Pariih, Townfhip or Place lhall lie, be authorized to /