A third part of which sum (being A.'s medium) will be C.'s do. to D.'s do. to 6 The total amount of the annual payments will be 432 16 Suppose the month's expences paid by the several parishes under the above heads, according to the directions of the Act, should amount to 300l. the question will be, if 452l. 16s. 6d. (the total medium of all the parishes) require 300l. what will 85l. 16s. 6d. require? When that shall be worked by the rule of three, multiplying the third number by the second, and dividing it when so multiplied by the first, the answer will be That A.'s proportion amounts to 59 9 5 B.'s proportion, when worked in the same manner, will be 76 5 67 7 97 1 Making together the whole sum expended 300 0 When those medium sums shall be settled and proportioned at their first meeting, there will be no occasion to repeat that trouble afterwards, as the first sum will be the same on all future calculations; and to prevent trouble in adjusting the proportions at every monthly meeting, at every poorhouse, soon after the first medium proportions shall be so ascertained, there shall be a table fixed, calculating the proportions of each parish, township, or place, to any given sum, from the smallest to the greatest, that is likely to be expended in that district within the month; which will make every account clear and easy to the meanest understanding, and will be liquidated in an instant. No. XVI. Mode of adjusting the second Account mentioned in the Act, respecting the Victuals, Beer, Firing, and other Necessaries. AS soon as the agreement is made for uniting several parishes, &c. the guardians shall meet and consider what will be a proper weekly sum to be paid into the hands of the treasurer for every person admitted into the poor house, estimating it as near as they can to the probable expence of maintaining them; the guardians should pay to the treasurer, at every monthly meeting, what shall be due for every such person, upon that calculation, for the time he has been kept there in the month preceding; and, in order to avoid fractions, if any person shall have been there four days, or more, in any of the weeks, it should be considered as a full week, and if less than four days, no charge should be made for it: That, in order to avoid difficulties in adjusting the account, a table should be provided, in like manner as before, and fixed up in the house, with proper columns for the number of persons, the number of weeks, and the total amount, according to the weekly sum so agreed upon; by which that account will likewise be settled without the least trouble or difficulty. The several monthly sums paid by each parish on this second account, and also the gross sums, should be entered in the treasurer's books; and at the end of the year it should be computed whether the payments by the several parishes have amounted to more, or less, than the sum expended; if to more, the guardian of each parish should receive, if to less, he should No. XIV. 22 Geo. III. c. 83. pay his proportion thereof to the treasurer, to be computed according to the first account, as directed by the Act. Rules, Orders, Bye-laws, and Regulations, to be observed and enforced at every Poor House to be provided and established under the Authority of the Act of the twentysecond Year of King George the Third. First. THAT the several persons who shall be sent to any such poor house, who are capable of doing any work, shall be employed by the governor in some labour which may be best suited to their strength and capacity. Second. That the governor shall take particular care to keep the said house, and the several apartments therein, and also the several persons who shall inhabit the same, clean and wholesome; and for that purpose he shall employ such of the said poor persons who shall be sent thither, whom he shall think most able and best qualified for the offices, to assist him therein, and also in the providing and dressing victuals for the use of such poor persons; and if any such poor person shall refuse or neglect to perform the work or labour in which he or she shall be so employed, or shall be directed to do by the governor, every such person shall be punished by confinement, or alteration of diet, in such manner as the governor shall direct; and for a second offence of the like sort, complaint thereof shall be made to some justice of the peace for the limit, who, on conviction, shall commit such person to the house of correction for any time not exceeding two calendar months, nor less than one calendar month. Third. That the apartments in the house or houses to be provided as aforesaid, shall be adapted so as to accommodate the poor who shall be sent thither in the best manner they are capable.-That the governor shall place in the best apartments such poor persons who, having been creditable housekeepers, are reduced by misfortune, in preference to those who are become poor by vice and idleness; and that separate apartments shall be provided for the reception of the sick and distempered poor, and an apothecary or surgeon to be sent for to attend them when there shall appear necessity for it, at the expence of the parish or place to which such poor persons belong. Fourth. That such poor persons who are able to work, shall be called up by ring of bell, and set to work by six in the morning from Lady-day to Michaelmas, and by eight from Michaelmas to Lady-day; and continue until four in the afternoon from Michaelmas to Lady-day, and from Ladyday to Michaelmas till six in the afternoon (meal times and times for reasonable recreation excepted); and if any such poor person shall refuse or neglect to do such work as shall be allotted him or her, or wilfully spoil the same, or depart from such house without leave from the governor, or shall be guilty of any disorder or disobedience to these rules and orders, the governor shall reprove such person for the same, and punish him or her by confinement or alteration of diet, as the said governor shall think fit; and if such person shall be guilty of the like offence a second time, the governor shall complain thereof to the visitor of such house, who is hereby authorised to order the punishment of confinement to be increased to such degree as he shall think fit. Fifth. That the governor shall enter in a book to be kept by him, an account of the household goods, linen, furniture, and utensils provided for the said house; and also an account of the materials bought for manufacture, and of the goods manufactured there; which shall be laid before the guardians at their monthly meeting, and before the visitor whenever he comes to such house. Sixth. That the governor shall visit the several persons maintained in such house or houses, and their apartments, once at least in every day; and shall take care that there is no waste of fire, candles, or provisions; and shall see that the fires and candles are put out at the hours fixed for such persons going to bed, which shall be at eight of the clock between Michaelmas and Lady-day, and nine between Lady-day and Michaelmas. Seventh. That when any person shall die in the house, the governor shall take care that the body of such person be immediately removed into some separate apartment, and be decently buried, as soon as conveniently may be; and also take care of the clothes and goods of such person, and deliver them to the guardian of the poor of the parish or place to which such person did belong, who is to pay the charges of the funeral of such poor person. Eighth. That no poor person be permitted to go out of the poor house, nor any permitted to come into such house or houses, except the persons maintained and employed there, without the permission of the governor; and that no spirituous liquors be permitted to be drank in such houses; and that no other liquors shall be brought thither, without the permission of the said governor. Ninth. That the rules, orders, and bye-laws shall be publickly read by the governor to all the poor persons kept in such house or houses, once at least in every month. Tenth. That all the poor persons able to go to church, shall attend divine service every Sunday. Eleventh. That the governor shall dismiss from the poor house, or workhouse, every person who shall, in the opinion of the guardian or guardians, be thought improper to continue longer there, and upon an order from him or them for that purpose. [No. XV.] 30 George III. c. 49.-An Act to impower Justices, and other Persons, to visit Parish Workhouses or Poor Houses, and examine and certify the State and Condition of the Poor therein to the Quarter Sessions. WHEREAS the laws now in being for the regulating parish workhouses pur No. XIV. 22 Geo. III. c. 83. No. XV. 30 Geo. III. c. 49. From Sept. 29, 1790, justices, &c. may visit workhouses, and certify the state of the Poor to the next quarter sessions, &c. or poor houses have been found in certain instances deficient and ineffectual, especially when the poor in such houses are afflicted with contagious or infectious diseases, in which cases particular attention to their lodging, diet, clothing, bedding, and medicines is requisite ;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice Preamble, and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, it shall and may be lawful to and for any of his Majesty's justices of the peace, or any physician, surgeon, or apothecary, for that pose authorized by warrant under the hand and seal of any such justice or justices, or for the officiating clergyman of the parish or place, duly authorized as aforesaid, at all times, in the day time, to visit any parish workhouse, or house kept or provided for the maintenance of the poor of any parish or place, within the county, riding, liberty, or division, wherein such justice or justices shall be resident and shall have jurisdiction, to examine into the state and condition of the poor people therein, and the food, cloathing, and bedding, of such poor people, and the state and condition of such house or houses; and if upon any such visitation the said justice or justices, or persons duly authorized as aforesaid, shall find any cause or occasion of complaint, that then and in such case such justice or justices, or persons duly authorized as aforesaid, shall, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, if he or they shall think fit, to certify the state and condition of such workhouse or poorhouse, and the state of the poor therein, and of their food, cloathing, and bedding, to the next quarter sessions of the peace to be held for such county, riding, liberty, or division, wherein such workhouse or poorhouse shall be situate, under his or their hands and seals respectively; and such justice or justices, or other persons duly authorized as aforesaid, shall cause the overseers of the poor, or master or Justices at the governor of the said workhouse or poorhouse of such parish or place, to be quarter sessummoned to appear at the same sessions, to answer such complaint; and sions to remove the justices assembled at such quarter sessions, on hearing the parties on any causes of complaint. No. XV. 30 Geo. III. c. 49. If in such visitation any of the poor should be found afflicted with contagious diseases, &c. Ap plication to be made to the justices of the division, who are to give order for immediate relief,&c. Expences of relief to be paid out of the poor's rate. Not to extend to workhouses regulated by special Act of Parliament. No. XVI. 35 Geo. III. c. 101. 13 & 14 Car. 2. c. 12, recited. such complaint, shall and may, and they are hereby authorized to make such orders and regulations, for the removing of any cause of complaint contained in such certificate as aforesaid, as to them shall seem meet; and all the parties concerned shall, and they are hereby required to abide by and perform such orders and regulations as shall be so made by the justices at the said sessions. II. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case any justice or justices of the peace, or persons duly authorized by warrant as aforesaid, shall, upon any such visitation, find any of the poor in any parish workhouse or poorhouse afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease, or in want of immediate medical or other assistance, or of sufficient and proper food, or requiring separation or removal from the other poor in the said house, then and in such case or cases, if such visitation shall be made by a justice of the peace, it shall and may be lawful to and for such justice, and he is hereby directed and required to apply to one or more other justice or justices of the peace, in the county, riding, liberty, or division, and certify to him or them the state and condition of the poor in such parish workhouse or poorhouse; or if such visitation shall be made by the persons duly authorized as aforesaid, then and in such case or cases it shall and may be lawful to and for such persons, and they are hereby directed and required to apply to two or more justices of the peace in such county, riding, liberty, or division; and thereupon the said justices shall and may, and they are hereby authorized to make such order for the immediate procuring medical or other assistance, or of sufficient and proper food, or for the separation or removal of such poor as shall be afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease, in such manner as they the said justices, under their hands and seals, shall think proper to direct, until the next quarter sessions of the peace to he held in and for the said county, riding, liberty, or division, wherein such workhouse or poorhouse shall be situate; at which quarter sessions of the peace the said two justices are to certify the same, under their hands and seals respectively, to the justices assembled at such quarter sessions, who are hereby authorized and required to make such order for the further relief of the poor in such parish workhouse or poorhouse, as to the justice assembled at such quarter sessions shall seem meet and proper; and the charges and expences of relieving such poor shall be, and is hereby directed to be paid out of the poor's rate of such parish, in such manner as the said justices assembled at such quarter sessions shall direct. III. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to any poorhouse or workhouse in any district or districts which have been, or may be hereafter incorporated or regulated by any special Act or Acts of Parliament. [No. XVI.] 35 George III. c. 101.-An Act to prevent the Removal of poor Persons, until they shall become actually chargeable. [22d June, 1795.] WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled, An Act for the better Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom, reciting, That whereas, by reason of some defects in the law, poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another, and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or 'wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and deIstroy; and when they have consumed it, then to another parish, and at last become rogues and vagabonds, to the great discouragement of parishes to provide stocks where it is liable to be devoured by strangers; for remedy whereof, it is thereby amongst other things, enacted, That it shall and may be lawful, upon complaint made by the churchwardens or over'seers of the poor of any parish, to any justice of the peace, within forty 'days after such person or persons coming so to settle as aforesaid, in any ' tenement under the yearly value of ten pounds, for any two justices of the 6 < 'peace, whereof one to be of the quorum, of the division where any person < No. XVI. or persons that are likely to become chargeable to the parish shall come 35 Geo. III. to inhabit, by their warrant, to remove and convey such person or persons c. 101. to such parish where he or they were last legally settled, either as a na'tive, householder, sojourner, apprentice, or servant, for the space of forty days at the least, unless he or they give sufficient security for the discharge of the said parish, to be allowed by the said justices: And whereas many industrious poor persons, chargeable to the parish, township, or 'place, where they live, merely from want of work there, would, in any other place, where sufficient employment is to be had, maintain themselves and families without being burthensome to any parish, township, or place; and such poor persons are for the most part compelled to live in their own parishes, townships, or places, and are not permitted to inhabit elsewhere, under pretence that they are likely to become chargeable to the parish, township, or place, into which they go for the purpose of getting employment, although the labour of such poor persons might, in many in‹ stances, be very beneficial to such parish, township, or place: And whereas 'the remedy intended to be applied thereto, by the granting of certificates, in pursuance of the Act passed in the eighth and ninth years of the reign of King William the Third, intituled, An Act for supplying some Defects in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom, hath been found very ineffectual; and it is necessary that other provisions should be made relating thereto;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act, so much So much of reof the said in part recited Act of the thirteenth and fourteenth years of cited Acts as King Charles the Second, as enables the justices to remove any person or enables juspersons that are likely to be chargeable to the parish, township, or place, tices to reinto which they shall come to inhabit, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed; and that from henceforth no poor person shall be removed, by likely to be virtue of any order of removal, from the parish or place where such chargeable to person shall be inhabiting, to the place of his or her last legal settlement, pealed; and until such person shall have become actually chargeable to the parish, no persons to township, or place, in which such person shall then inhabit, in which case be removed till two justices of the peace are hereby empowered to remove the person or they become persons, in the same manner, and subject to the same appeal, and with the chargeable. same powers, as might have been done before the passing of this Act with respect to persons likely to become chargeable. poor move persons parishes, re II. And whereas poor persons are often removed or passed to the place Justices may of their settlement during the time of their sickness, to the great danger of suspend the re'their lives;' for remedy thereof, Be it further enacted by the authority moval of sick aforesaid, That in case any poor person shall from henceforth be brought persons, before (1) any justice or justices of the peace, for the purpose of being removed from the place where he or she is inhabiting or sojourning, by virtue of any order of removal, or of being passed by virtue of any vagrant pass, and it shall appear to the said justice or justices that such poor person is unable to travel, by reason of sickness or other infirmity, or that it would be dangerous for him or her so to do, the justice or justices making such order of removal, or granting such vagrant pass, are hereby required and authorized to suspend the execution of the same until they are satisfied that it may safely be executed, without danger to any person who is the subject thereof; which suspension of, and subsequent permission to execute the same, shall be respectively indorsed on the said order of removal, or vagrant pass, and signed by such justice or justices (2); and no act done Charges incurby any such poor person continuing to reside in any parish, township, or red by such place, under the suspension of any such order, shall be effectual, either in suspension to the whole or in part, for the purpose of giving him or her a settlement in be paid by the 101. (1) The order may be suspended although shall be brought before them; Everdon, 9 E. the pauper, by reason of infirmity, is not brought before the justices. The true construction is, if the case of any poor person VOL. VIII. I (2) Or any others; 49 Geo. III. c. 124. |