Volume 17

Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.

  • Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.
Date:
1835-1847
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    __ the Mone of their Execrion, and the Durarion of their Orrtczs, &c. id Co-ordinate Controlling or | Authorities, as Seen | ; | ° 1S, b Powers P Pawésa over Justices, &c. ea abeaaer’ | General Powers he pwebe OVER. b” Oakdote | Pawersorer} Powers | : Saale Children, Pose Vagrants, | Incidental. seers, &c, oor. : — ————EEEE oe To keep and affix; To main-| To put ap-| To give oc-| See ‘“ In- }guardians’ common/tain _and/prentice and to/casional _re-|door poor.’ seal; to make con-jeducate discharge or flief; to de- |tracts after publie¢ them; tohire out chil-/fray charges motice; to make/provide dren, for burial o bye-laws regulating} work- dead. their own proceed-jhouse; to }ings and for govern-|compel per- jing the poor; toap-|sons _ not | point officers, trea-|/maintain- | surer, collector,|ing tHeir slerk, surveyors of|families, or works, master andjthreaten- jmistress of work-jingto leave house; to borrow|them, or 5,000/. on rates ; tojbegging or requiring relief, to into} work- To sue on} One justice} Overseers tof bastardy; may order any|make rates, bonds; to re-jore director tojand pay mo- move pau-|give relief to ajnies collect- pers; to al-/poor person injed tothe trea- low monies|sudden illness, |surer. _ payable out of the poor- rates ; to to extend to almshouses. {haye a place of cor- }rection. manufacture silk goods otherwise than for hire, and at the usual and ac- customed prices. Incorporated; to) To have a common|vide a/poor children to seers,” seal; to purchase|/House ofithe guardians estates; to make|Industry and others, and bye-laws to be en-jandaplacejto apprehend tered in the “ Bookjof correc-/them by the of Statutes;’’ pre-|tion; — to/corporation sent workhouse|compel per-| warrant vested in them; to/sons _notithey desert, summon and ez-|maintain- amine on oath wit-ling their hesses on any mat-|families or ters relating to the/deserting corporation ; tocon-/them, and act for the mainte-| people who Nance of the poor ofjbeg, seek, other places; to ap-jor want re- point governor, trea-jlief,to come} surer, and auditorjin and to annually; clerk, as-jdetain) sistant, master and|themin the Matron, beadle or|/workhouse porter, with salaries,|andemploy them until the guar- dians think the can taimtain |). 3 ee themselves, and until th® idle persons have raised] (above their maintenance) their charges; to hire out the poor. enter} Not to ex-|Books of the} Overseers poor’s lodg-|tend to alms-|corporation may relieve] ing houses|houses andjopen to inspec-lcasual pan- search|special dona-|tion of inhabit-|pers not beggars/tions ; but/ants, moveable in- and paupers;|guardians to to the house, to apprehend|take charity pay for bu- and|monies not rials, re- movals, and settlement trials, and} other urgent cases to be allowed by three — guar- dians in the intervals of courts. pro-| To apprentice