| Law reports, digests, etc - 1859 - 670 pages
...weekly or otherwise, by taxation of every inhabitant, and of every occupier of lands, houses, &c., competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, &c., being poor, as to them shall seem convenient." It was decided in very early times that the poorrate... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1833 - 442 pages
...taxation of every inhabitant, &c.) a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron, and other ware and stuff, to set the poor on work ; and also...them being poor and not able to work ; and also for putting out children to be apprentices," &c. This admirable statute will be found on examination to... | |
| Harriet Martineau - English fiction - 1833 - 596 pages
...daily trade to get their living by ; and also to raise, by taxation, &c., a convenient stock of flax, to set the poor on work ; and also competent sums...other among them, being poor and not able to work.' You see how this is aimed at vagabonds as well as designed for the impotent. Many a monkish bosom,... | |
| Harriet Martineau - Economic history - 1833 - 192 pages
...daily trade to get their living by; and also to raise, by taxation, &c., a convenient stock of flax, to set the poor on work; and also competent sums of...other among them being poor and not able to work.' You see bow this is aimed at vagabonds as well as designed for the impotent. Many a monkish bosom,... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1833 - 916 pages
...parish, in such competent sum and sums of money as they shall think fit, a convenient stock of flax, &c., to set the poor on work; and also competent sums of...old, blind, and such other among them being poor and unable to work ; and also for the putting of such [poor] children to be apprentices — to be gathered... | |
| Frederic Gunning - Highway law - 1833 - 272 pages
...in such competent sum and sums of money as they shall think fit, — a convenient stock of flax, &c. to set the poor on work ; and also competent sums...necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, &c. ; to be gathered out of the same parish according to the ability of the same parish," 8cc. In the... | |
| John Wade - Great Britain - 1833 - 674 pages
...means to maintain them, and using no ordinary and daily trade of life to get Iheir living by ; and for the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind,...other among them being poor and not able to work." The duties of parish officers clearly appear, then, to have been restricted to the three following... | |
| Mathew Carey - Charity - 1833 - 44 pages
...experiments. It ordered that " competent sums should be raised" [by the overseers of the poor] " for the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, "old, blind, and such other among them being poor and unable to work;" and that the able-bodied, idle vagrants should be compelled to labour for their support.... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham - Law reports, digests, etc - 1833 - 812 pages
...every occupier of lands, &c., — in such competent sum and sums of money as they shall think fit,) — competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lauie, impotent, old, &c. — to be gathered out of the same parish, according to the ability of the... | |
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