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No. XXIV.
Geo. III.

c. 49.

minister an oath or affirmation to such churchwardens and overseers of the truth of such account, and to disallow and strike out of every such account 50 all such charges and payments as they shall deem to be unfounded, and to reduce such as they shall deem to be exorbitant, specifying upon or at the foot of such account every such charge or payment and its amount, so far as such justices shall disallow or reduce the same, and the cause for which the said was disallowed or reduced; and it shall be lawful for such two or more justices and they are hereby required to signify their allowance and approbation of any such account under their hands, and to sign and attest the caption of the same at the foot of such account, in manner directed by the said last recited Act: And in case such churchwardens and overseers, or any of them, shall refuse or neglect to make and yield up or to submit such account, or to verify the same by oath as aforesaid, or to deliver over to their successors within ten days from the signing and attesting such accounts, any goods, chattels, or other things, which on the examination and allowance of such account in manner aforesaid shall appear to be remaining in the hands of such churchwardens or overseers, it shall and may be lawful for any two or more justices of the peace to commit him, her, or them, to the common Gaol, until he, she, or they, shall have made and yielded such account, and verified the same as aforesaid, or shall have de- Penalty for livered over such goods, chattels, and other things which shall appear to neglect, &c. be so remaining in his, her, or their hands as aforesaid; and in case such churchwardens and overseers, or any of them, shall refuse or neglect to pay to their successors within fourteen days from the signing and attesting such account, any sum or sums of money or arrearages which on examination and allowance of such account in manner aforesaid, shall appear or be found to be due and owing from such churchwardens or overseers, or any of them, or remaining in their hands, it shall and may be lawful for the subsequent churchwardens and overseers by warrant from any two or more justices of the peace, to levy all such sum and sums of money by distress and sale of the offenders goods, rendering to the parties the overplus; and in default of such distress, it shall be lawful for any such two justices of the peace to commit the offender or offenders to the common gaol of the county, there to remain without bail or mainprize, until payment of such sum or sums of money or arrearages as aforesaid.

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II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if such churchwardens or Churchwaroverseers, or any of them, shall feel themselves, himself, or herself ag- dens, &c. may grieved by the disallowance or reduction of any such charges or payments, appeal to and be desirous of appealing against any order in that respect, made by ter sessions. any such two or more justices of the peace, it shall and may be lawful for him, her, or them, to enter an appeal against such order, at the next general or quarter sessions to be holden next after the tenth day from the making of such order, he, she, or they having first paid or delivered over to the succeeding churchwardens and overseers, such sum or sums of money, goods, chattels, and other things, as on the face of the account which shall have been submitted by him, her, or them to such two or more justices in manner aforesaid, shall appear and be admitted to be due and owing from him, her, or them, or remaining in his, her, or their hands, and having also entered into a recognizance before one or more such justice or justices, with two sufficient securities to be approved of by such justice or justices before whom such recognizance shall be acknowledged, in not less than double the sum or value in dispute, to enter such appeal at such next general or quarter sessions, and abide by such order as shall at that or any subsequent sessions be made on such appeal; and it shall and may be lawful for the justices of the peace assembled at such general or quarter sessions, on proof of the matters aforesaid, and on the production of such recognizance, and proof of the same having been duly entered into, to adjourn such appeal if they shall see occasion, or to hear the same, and to examine into and to confirm or reverse such disallowance or reduction in the whole or in part, as to such justices at such sessions shall seem just; and in any such case, the said justices at such sessions may (if they shall think fit) make an order that such churchwardens and overseers shall have the costs by them incurred upon any such appeal defrayed out of the poor rates of VOL. VIII.

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No. XXIV. 50 Geo. III. c. 49.

Appeal may

also lie by any other person. Magistrates of corporations shall have the same jurisdictions as two or more justices.

Proceedings of quarter sessions final.

Not to extend to churchwardens, &c. exempted from accounting under the recited

the parish or place; and the order of the general quarter sessions in execution of the powers given to them by this Act shall be binding on all parties.

III. Provided also, and be it enacted, That nothing herein contained shall take away or be construed to take away any power of appeal against any such account, by any other person entitled to appeal against the same by virtue of the said recited Acts or either of them.

IV. And be it further enacted, That every mayor, bailiff, or other head officer of every town and place corporate and city in Great Britain, or any two magistrates of such town or place corporate or city, being justice or justices of peace respectively, shall have the same authority by virtue of this Act within the limits and precincts of their jurisdictions as is by this Act limited, prescribed, or appointed to justices of the peace of the county, or any two or more of them, for the execution of this Act; subject nevertheless to an appeal to the general or quarter sessions in every such town or place corporate, or city respectively as aforesaid: Provided always, that in any town or place corporate, or city, where there are not four justices of the peace, it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons, where an appeal is given by this Act, to appeal, if he or they shall think fit, to the next general or quarter sessions of the peace for the county, riding, or division wherein such town or place corporate or city is situate.

V. And be it further enacted, That no certiorari shall be granted to remove any order or proceeding of any general or quarter sessions or of any justices, made or had under this Act, into any superior court of record; but that all orders and proceedings of such sessions, and all orders and proceedings of such justices (subject to such appeal as aforesaid) under this Act, shall be final and conclusive to all intents and purposes.

VI. Provided also, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or apply, or be construed to extend or apply to the accounts of any churchwarden or overseer of the poor in any parish or place where by the provisions of any Act or Acts relating to the poor of such parish or place, or by the construction of any such Act or Acts, such churchwardens and overseers are exempted from the rendering the accounts required by the herein before recited Acts of the forty-third year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth, and of the seventeenth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, or either of them; any thing hereinbefore contained to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided also that Nor to the city nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to the city of London.

Acts.

of London.

Recited Acts, unless where it is hereby expressly men

VII. Provided also, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall alter or repeal any of the provisions or regulations contained in the said recited Acts of the forty-third year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth, and of the seventeenth year of the reign of his late tioned, not to Majesty King George the Second, or either of them, other than and except only such provisions or regulations as are expressly mentioned in this Act, and so far as the same are expressly amended or altered by this Act.

be affected.

No. XXV.

c. 50.

[No. XXV.] 50 George III. c. 50.-An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, relating to the Relief and Employment of the Poor, so far as relates to the more effectual carrying the same into Execution; and to extend the Provisions thereof to Parishes which shall not have adopted the Provisions of an Act of the twenty-second Year of his present Majesty, for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor.-[9th June 1810.]

50 Geo. III. WHEREAS an Act was passed in the twenty-second year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor, whereby certain rules, orders, and regulations specified and contained in the schedule to the said Act annexed, are directed

22 G. 3. c. 83.

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'to be observed and enforced at every poorhouse to be provided by virtue of that Act, with such additions as shall be made by the justices of the peace of the limit wherein such house or houses should be situate, at some 'special session; provided such addition should not be contradictory to the rules, orders, and regulations established by that Act; and provided that the same should not be repealed by the justices at their general quarter 'sessions of the peace: And whereas another Act was passed in the forty

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No. XXV.

50 Geo. III.

c. 50.

may direct the

⚫ ninth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for alter- 49 G. 3. c. 124. C ing, amending, and explaining certain Acts relative to the Removal of the ‹ Poor, and for making Regulations in certain Cases touching the Examination of Paupers as to their Settlements; and for extending to all Parishes 'certain Rules and Orders in Workhouses, under an Act of the twenty-second Year of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor; whereby any two or more of his Majesty's justices of the peace are authorized, at any petty sessions, to direct such 'rules, orders, and regulations, or any of them, to be observed and executed in any parishes within their respective divisions or districts: And whereas it is expedient that the benefit of such regulations as are pro'vided and authorized to be made by the said recited Act of the twenty'second year of his present Majesty, for the government of poorhouses and workhouses, should be extended to parishes which shall not have 'adopted the provisions of the said Acts;' May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it 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 any two or more of his Majesty's jus- Two justices tices of the peace, within their respective limits, may at any special session direct the rules, orders, and regulations, in the schedule to the said Act of regulations the twenty-second year of his Majesty's reign specified and contained, or any of them, with such additions as shall be made by such justices, to be observed and enforced in the workhouses or poorhouses, or any houses set apart for that purpose, although there should be no master or mistress to superintend the same, of any parish or place within their respective divisions or districts, as fully and effectually as the rules and orders by the said Act of the twenty-second year of his Majesty's reign established, are to be observed and enforced within the parishes adopting the provisions of the same Act: and that it shall be lawful for two or more such justices, in any special session from time to time as they shall see occasion, to add to and alter the rules, orders, and regulations which shall at any previous special sessions have been made and ordered to be observed, provided that no addition or alteration to be made by such justices shall be contradictory to the rules, orders, and regulations established by the said Act of the twentysecond year of his Majesty's reign, and provided that the same shall not be repealed by the justices at their quarter session of the peace; and for enforcing and carrying into execution such rules, orders, and regulations in every parish and place where the same shall be established by virtue of this Act, every justice of the peace shall for that purpose have the powers by the said Act of the twenty-second year of his Majesty's reign vested in visitors of the poor; and all churchwardens and overseers, within their respective parishes and townships, shall have and exercise the powers, and shall perform the duties by the same Act vested in and imposed upon governors of the poor.

specified in
schedule of
22 G. 3. c. 83.
to be observed
in workhouses
where no mas-

ter or mistress
is appointed
to superin-
tend; and may
alter such re-
gulations.

Contractors

II. And be it further enacted, That persons contracting for the maintenance of the poor of any parish or place shall, with respect to all such things for providing as they shall contract to perform and provide for the poor, be subject to for the poor the jurisdiction and orders of justices of the peace in like manner in all re- shall be subspects as overseers of the poor are subject thereto; and that every order ject to the of any such justice to or upon any person so contracting, may be enforced jurisdiction of and carried into execution by such means as the same might have been en- the justices as forced and carried into execution against any overseer of the poor; and overseers of that every person so contracting for the maintenance of the poor, who shall the poor. refuse or neglect to obey any such order, shall be punishable by the like

No. XXV.

c. 50.

forfeitures and penalties, to be levied in the same manner as in cases of 50 Geo. III. disobedience or neglect of the orders of justices by overseers of the poor. III. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the justices in any such special session as aforesaid, upon the application of the overseers of the poor of any parish or place, or of the major part of them, to appoint the keeper of the workhouse of any such parish or place to be the governor thereof, and the keeper so appointed, so long as he shall continue keeper of such workhouse until the justices in any such special session shall revoke such appointment (which they are hereby empowered to do) shall have, use, and exercise the powers, and perform the duties by the said Act of the twenty-second year of his Majesty's reign, vested in and imposed upon governors of the poor.

Justices may appoint the keeper of the workhouse to be governor.

Penalty on embezzling goods.

Breach of rules under

this Act to be punished.

IV. And be it further enacted, That if any person who shall be sent to any poorhouse or workhouse shall embezzle or wilfully waste, spoil, or damage any of the clothing, goods, or materials committed to his or her care, or shall take or carry away, without permission of the overseer of the poor or keeper of the said workhouse, any clothing, goods, or materials provided for the use of such poorhouse, or of any of the poor therein, complaint thereof may be made upon oath to one or more justices of the peace acting for the district or division in which such parish shall be situate; and such justices are hereby authorized to hear such complaint, and upon conviction to commit the offender to the house of correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding two calendar months, nor less than seven days.

V. And be it further enacted, That any breach of the rules and orders to be put in force by virtue of this Act, shall be punished in such manner as is by the said Act directed for the breach of the rules and orders to be enforced under the before-recited Act of the twenty-second year of his present Majesty, chapter eighty-three.

[No. XXVI.] 50 George III. c. 52.-An Act to amend so much of an Act, passed in the eight and ninth Year of King William the Third, as requires poor Persons receiving Alms to wear Badges.-[9th June, 1810.]

No. XXVI. WE

50 Geo. III. c. 52.

8 & 9 W. 3. c. 30.

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WHEREAS by an Act passed in the eighth and ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Third, intituled, An Act for supplying some Defects in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor of this King'dom, it is enacted, that every such person as, from and after the first day 'day of September one thousand six hundred and ninety-seven, shall be upon the collection and receive relief of any parish or place, and the wife and children of any such person cohabiting in the same house (such child only excepted as shall be by the churchwardens and overseers of the poor 'permitted to live at home in order to have the care of and attend an impotent and helpless parent), shall upon the shoulder of the right sleeve of the uppermost garment of every person, in an open and visible manner, wear such badge or mark as is hereinafter mentioned and expressed; 'that is to say, a large roman P, together with the first letter of the name of the parish or place whereof such poor person is an inhabitant, cut ' either in red or blue cloth, as by the churchwardens and overseers of the C poor it shall be directed and appointed; and if any such poor person shall ' at any time neglect or refuse to wear such a badge or mark as aforesaid, and in manner as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for any jus'tice of the peace of the county, city, liberty, cr town corporate, where any such offence shall be committed, upon complaint to him for that purpose to be made, to punish every such offender for every such offence, either by ordering of his or her relief or usual allowance on the collection to be abridged, suspended or withdrawn, or otherwise by committing of any such offender to the house of correction, there to be whipt and kept to hard labour for any number of days not exceeding one and twenty, as to the said justice in his discretion it shall seem most meet; and if any

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such churchwarden or overseer of the poor, from and after the said first

day of September, shall relieve any such poor person not having and wear

No. XXVI.

c. 52.

ing such badge or mark as aforesaid, being thereof convicted upon the 50 Geo. IlI. oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses before any justice of the peace of the county, city, liberty, or town corporate where any such 'offence shall be committed, shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of twenty shillings, to be levied by distress and sale of the goods of every such offender, by warrant under the hand and seal of any such justice; one moiety to be to the use of the informer, and the other to the poor of the parish where the offence shall be committed: and whereas it is ex'pedient that the said part of such Act be repealed:' May it therefore So much of replease your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's cited Act as most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords requires poor Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament as- persons to sembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing wear badges of this Act, the said part of such recited Act shall be, and the same is repealed. hereby repealed.

[No. XXVII.] 52 George III. c. 160.-An Act to enable
Justices of the Peace to order parochial Relief to Pri-
soners confined under Mesne Process for Debt in such
Gaols as are not County Gaols.-[29th July 1812.]
[Inserted ante. Title Gaols and Houses of Correction. Cl. 21. No. 27.]

[No. XXVII.] 54 George III. c. 91.-An Act to amend so much of an Act, passed in the Forty-third Year of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth, as concerns the Time of appointing Overseers of the Poor.-[14th July 1814.]

WHEREAS by an Act made in the forty-third year of her late Majesty No. XXVII. Queen Elizabeth intituled, An Act for the Relief of the Poor, it is en

c. 91.

acted, That the churchwardens of every parish, and four, three, or two 54 Geo. III. substantial householders there, as shall be thought meet, having respect to the greatness of the parish, to be nominated yearly in Easter week, or within one month after Easter, under the hand and seal of two or more 43 Eliz. c. 2. justices of the peace in the same county, whereof one to be of the quorum, dwelling in or near the same parish or division where the same parish doth lie, shall be called overseers of the poor of the same parish: And whereas great inconvenience is often found to arise, from the time for appointing such overseers being regulated by a moveable feast; 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, the appointment of overseers of the poor, of overseers of Appointment so directed by said Act of Queen Elizabeth, shall, in every year, be made on the poor. the twenty-fifth day of March, or within fourteen days next after the said twenty-fifth day of March, in all and every the same manner as directed by the said Act to be made in Easter week; any thing in the said Act or any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

[No. XXVIII.] 54 George III. c. 107.-An Act to render valid certain Indentures for the binding of Parish Apprentices, and Certificates of the Settlement of poor Persons.[23d July 1814.]

[Vi. ante. Title Apprentices.]

[No. XXIX.] 54 George III. c. 170.-An Act to repeal certain Provisions in local Acts, for the Maintenance and

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