The Unions' and parish officers' year-book [afterw.] The Union, parish, and ...

other articles which have not been paid or given previously to the taking of such credit, or the making of such entry, and he shall not take credit in such accounts for any money paid to any tradesman or other person without producing, at the next ordinary meeting of the Guardians, a bill from such tradesman or person with voucher of pay

ment.

DUTIES OF A SUPERINTENDENT OF OUT-DOOR LABOUR.

Art. 217. The duties of a Superintendent of Out-door Labour shall be to superintend any able-bodied paupers not inmates of the workhouse who may be set to work by the Guardians, to take care that they perform the work respectively assigned to them, and to report truly to the Guardians respecting the performance of such work.

RECEIPT AND PAYMENT OF MONEY BY OFFICERS.

Art. 218. No Clerk, Relieving Officer, Master, or other officer appointed to or holding any office under this order, shall, directly or indirectly, receive or bargain to receive any gratuity, per-centage, or allowance of any kind with reference to any contract with the Guardians, or in respect of any payment made or to be made for goods supplied or work executed according to the order of such Guardians or on their behalf.

Art. 219. No Clerk shall directly or indirectly cause to be paid to himself, or shall pay away on his own account or for his own benefit, any cheque drawn by the Guardians, and made payable to any person other than himself.

Art. 220. Every Clerk receiving any cheque or money from the Guardians on account of any other party, shall transmit the same within fourteen days to the proper persons, and shall produce the receipt or acknowledgment for the same at the next ordinary meeting after the same has come to his hands.

Art. 221. Every officer of the Union who may receive money on behalf of the Guardians thereof, shall forthwith pay the same into the hands of the Treasurer of the Union, to the credit of the Guardians, notwithstanding that any salary or balance may be due from the Union to such officer.

Art. 222. No Relieving Officer, or other officer of any Guardians, nor any Assistant Overseer or Collector, shall receive money for the relief of any non-settled pauper on behalf of any officer, or of the Guardians, of any other Parish or Union, or shall constitute himself in any way the agent of any officer or Guardians of such other Parish or Union, except as is provided in this Order.

Art. 223. If any money be transmitted to any officer, contrary to the provisions of this Order, such officer shall forthwith pay such money into the hands of the Treasurer of the Union whose officer he is, and shall report to the Guardians at their next meeting the fact that such money has been so received and paid, and shall make a true entry accordingly in his accounts.

ARTICLES OF THE GENERAL CONSOLIDATED ORDER REFERRED TO IN THE PRECEDING PAGES.

Art. 59. If the child whom it is proposed to bind apprentice, be in the Workhouse, and under the age of fourteen years, the Guardians shall require a certificate in writing from the Medical Officer of the Workhouse as to the fitness in regard to bodily health and strength of such child to be bound apprentice to the proposed trade, and shall also ascertain from the Master of the Workhouse the capacity of the child for such binding in other respects.

Art. 60. If the child be not in the workhouse, but in the Union by the Guardians of which it is proposed that he shall be bound, the Relieving Officer of the district in which the child is residing shall examine into the circumstances of the case, the condition of the child, and of his parents, if any, and the residence of the proposed master, the nature of his trade, the number of other apprentices, if any, then bound to him, and generally as to the fitness of the particular binding, and shall report the result of his inquiry to the Guardians.

Art, 61. If in any case within Article 60, the Guardians think proper to proceed with the binding, they shall, when the child is under the age of fourteen years, direct the Relieving Officer to take the child to the Medical Officer of the district, to be examined as to his fitness in respect of bodily health and strength for the proposed trade or business; and such Medical Oficer shall certify in writing according to his judgment in the matter, which certificate shall be produced by the said Relieving Officer to the next meeting of the Guardians.

Art. 62. If the child be not residing within the Union, the Guardians who propose to bind him shall not proceed to do so unless they receive such a report as is required in Article 60 from the Relieving Officer of the district in which such child is residing, and a certificate from some medical man practising in the neighbourhood of the child's residence to the effect required in Article 61.

Art. 76. Every person whose name is inserted in such list shall receive a ticket in the form (L.), and shall be entitled on the exhibition of such ticket to the Medical Officer of his district to obtain such advice, attendance, and medicines, as his case may require, in the same manner as if he had received an order from the Guardians, and such ticket shall remain in force for the time specified therein, unless such person shall cease to be in the receipt of relief before the expiration of such time.

Art. 84. The Guardians shall pay every sum greater than five pounds by an order, which shall be drawn upon the Treasurer of the Union, and shall be signed by the presiding Chairman and two other Guardians at a meeting, and shall be countersigned by the Clerk.

Art. 91. As soon as the pauper is admitted, he shall be placed in some room to be appropriated to the reception of paupers on admission, and shall then be examined by

the Medical Officer.

Art. 92. If the Medical Officer upon such examination pronounce the pauper to be labouring under any disease of body or mind, the pauper shall be placed in the sick ward, or in such other ward as the Medical Officer shall direct.

Art. 93. If the Medical Officer pronounce the pauper to be free from any such diseases the pauper shall be placed in the part of the workhouse assigned to the classt o which he may belong.

Art. 103. Half an hour after the bell shall have been rung for rising, the names of the paupers shall be called over by the Master and Matron respectively, in the several wards provided for the second, third, fifth, and sixth classes, when every pauper belonging to the respective wards shall be present, and shall answer to his name, and be inspected by the Master and Matron respectively, provided that the paupers of the third and sixth class may be called over and inspected by the Schoolmaster and Schoolmistress. Art. 104. The meals shall be taken by all the paupers, except the sick, the children, persons of unsound mind, casual poor way-farers, women suckling their children, and the paupers of the first and fourth classes, in the dining-hall or day-room, and in no other place whatever, and during the time of meals order and decorum shall be maintained.

Art. 107. The paupers shall be dieted with the food and in the manner set forth in the Dietary Table which may be prescribed for the use of the Workhouse, and no pauper shall have or consume any liquor or any food or provision other than is allowed in the said Dietary Table, except on Christmas Day, or by the direction in writing of the Medical Officer, as provided in Art. 108.

Art. 114. The boys and girls who are inmates of the Workhouse shall, for three of the working hours, at least, every day, be instructed in reading, writing, arithmetic, and the principles of the Christian Religion, and such other instruction shall be imparted to them as may fit them for service, and train them to habits of usefulness, industry, and virtue.

Art. 124. Prayers shall be read before breakfast and after supper every day, and Divine Service shall be performed every Sunday, Good Friday, and Christmas Day in

the Workhouse (unless the Guardians, with the consent of the Commissioners, otherwise direct), and at such prayers and Divine Service all the paupers shall attend, except the sick, persons of unsound mind, the young children, and such as are too infirm to do so; provided that those paupers who may object so to attend, on account of their professing religious principles differing from those of the Established Church, shall also be exempt from such attendance.

POOR LAW LEGISLATION OF 1855,

The Acts of the Session of Parliament, 1855, directly relating to the Poor Laws, were c. 34, to provide for the Education of Children in the Receipt of Out-door Relief; c. 47, to continue an Act for charging the Maintenance of certain Poor Persons in Unions in England and Wales upon the Common Fund; c. 51, to continue the Exemption of Stock-in-Trade from Rating; and c. 79, regarding the Burial of Poor Persons by Guardians and Overseers of the Poor.

POOR-LAW BOARD IN IRELAND.

OFFICE: CUSTOM-HOUSE, DUBLIN.

Commissioners.

ALFRED POWER, Esq.;

JOHN M'DONNELL, M.D.

E. SENIOR, Esq.

The CHIEF SECRETARY to the LORD LIEUTENANT;
The UNDER SECRETARY to the LORD LIEUTENANT.
Secretary-W. STANLEY, Esq.

Assistant Secretary-BENJAMIN BANKS, Esq.

BOARD OF SUPERVISION FOR THE RELIEF OF THE POOR
IN SCOTLAND.

OFFICE: 82, GEORGE STREET, EDINBURGH.

Permanent Members.

Sir JOHN M'NEILL, G.C.B.

HENRY HOME DRUMMOND, Esq.

Sir W. G. CRAIG, Bart.

Ex-Officio Members.

The LORD PROVOST of EDINBURGH;

The LORD PROVOST of GLASGOW;

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL of SCOTLAND;

The SHERIFF DEPUTE of the COUNTY of PERTH;

The SHERIFF DEPUTE of the COUNTY of RENFREW;

The SHERIFF DEPUTE of the COUNTY of ROSS and CROMARTY.

Secretary-W. S. WALKER, Esq.

THE COMMISSIONERS IN LUNACY.

OFFICE: 19, NEW STREET, SPRING GARDENS.

The Right Hon. the EARL of SHAFTESBURY;
The Right Hon. R. V. SMITH;

ROBERT GORDON, Esq.;
FRANCIS BARLOW, Esq. ;

COLONEL CLIFFORD, M.P.
Medical.

J. TURNER, Esq., M. D.

J. R. HUME, Esq., M.D.

2. S. GASKELL, Esq.

Legal.

B. W. PROCTOR, Esq.

W. G. CAMPBELL, Esq.

Secretary R. W. S. LUTWIDGE, Esq., BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

List of County and Borough Asylums, Metropolitan and Provincial Licensed Houses, and Hospitals, receiving Lunatics. (Those marked thus receive Pauper Lunatics.)