Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales, Volume 5

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Poor Law Commission Office, 1839
 

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Page 13 - And the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less. And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Page 82 - ... the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenants' rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Page 121 - Commissioners shall by any order under their seal of office-direct, no rate for the relief of the poor in England and Wales shall be allowed by any justices, or be of any force, which shall not be made upon an estimate of the net annual value of the several hereditaments rated thereunto ; that is to say, of the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenants...
Page 93 - Parliament held in the first and second years of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled " An Act for the more effectual relief of the destitute poor in Ireland;" this is to notify, that the Poor Law Commissioners have directed their Assistant Commissioner, Richard Hall, Esq.
Page 72 - Officers, to appoint such paid Officers with such Qualifications as the said Commissioners shall think necessary for superintending or assisting in the Administration of the Relief and Employment of the Poor...
Page 133 - And lastly, it is hereby declared and agreed by and between the said parties to these presents, that...
Page 81 - And be it further enacted that every person being able wholly or in part to maintain himself or herself, or his or her family, by work or by other means, and wilfully refusing or neglecting so to do, by which refusal or neglect he or she or any of his or her family whom he or she may be legally bound to maintain, shall have become chargeable to any parish...
Page 72 - Parent shall object, or, in the Case of an Orphan, to which the Godfather or Godmother of such Orphan shall so object: Provided also, that it shall and may be lawful for any licensed Minister of the Religious Persuasion of any Inmate of such Workhouse, at all Times in the Day, on the Request of such Inmate, to visit such Workhouse for the Purpose of affording Religious Assistance to such Inmate, and also for the Purpose of instructing his Child or Children in the Principles of their Religion.
Page 93 - Year of the Reign of her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled ' An Act to enable the Owners of settled Estates to defray the Expenses of draining the same by way of Mortgage...
Page 133 - AB, [builder], his executors or administrators, so much money as such extra work and the materials used therein shall cost or amount unto, anything hereinbefore contained to the contrary notwithstanding ; and that if it shall be thought proper by the said C.

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