Parliamentary Papers, Volume 19H.M. Stationery Office, 1842 |
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Page 106 - WE, THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS, in pursuance of the authorities vested in Us by an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales...
Page 100 - ... include any Number of Parishes united for any Purpose whatever under the Provisions of this Act, or incorporated under the said Act made and passed in the Twenty-second Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor, or incorporated for the Relief or Maintenance of the poor under any Local Act...
Page 193 - SIR, I AM commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you that, the...
Page 57 - To examine all parcels taken by any pauper out of the Workhouse, and to prevent the undue removal of any article from the premises. No. 7. To lock all the outer doors, and ,take the keys to the Master, at nine o'clock every night, and to receive them back from him every morning at six o'clock, or at such hours as shall from time to time be fixed by the Guardians ; and if any application for admission to the Workhouse be made after the keys shall have been so taken to the Master, to apprise the Master...
Page 100 - ... of such parish, or in some other book to be from time to time provided for that purpose, the names and addresses of the owners and proxies who shall send such...
Page 189 - ... such inmate, nor shall authorize the education of any child in such workhouse in any religious creed other than that professed by the parents or surviving parent of such child, and to which such parents or parent shall object, or, in the case of an orphan, to which the godfather or godmother of such orphan shall so object...
Page 89 - ... his duties, the Guardians may appoint a fit person to act as his temporary substitute, and may pay him a reasonable compensation for his services, and every such appointment shall be reported to the Poor Law Commissioners as soon as the same shall have been made.
Page 187 - Offence be committed to the Common Gaol or House of Correction, there to be kept...
Page 92 - ... advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however imperfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement in Bills of Mortality. Each disease has, in many instances, been denoted by three or four terms, and each term has been applied to as many different diseases; vague, inconvenient names have been employed, or complications have been registered instead of primary diseases. The nomenclature is of as much importance in this department of inquiry...
Page 168 - And be it enacted that every such rate shall be a poundage rate made upon an estimate of the net annual value...