The History of the Poor: Their Rights, Duties, and the Laws Respecting Them. In a Series of Letters, Volume 2J. Deighton, 1794 - Poor |
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... paid to the district agent ; and the committee- men fhall be chofen by fuch as are qualified in a manner required by the commiffioners , who shall also make a report of what they have done in this refpect to the juftices of the peace of ...
... paid to the district agent ; and the committee- men fhall be chofen by fuch as are qualified in a manner required by the commiffioners , who shall also make a report of what they have done in this refpect to the juftices of the peace of ...
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... migrates , muft give to the parish officers an account of what parish he removed from , and where he paid his laft con- tribution ; and if the officers of the parish do not not chufe to admit him as a parishioner , they 36 . LETTER XXV .
... migrates , muft give to the parish officers an account of what parish he removed from , and where he paid his laft con- tribution ; and if the officers of the parish do not not chufe to admit him as a parishioner , they 36 . LETTER XXV .
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... paid to fuch poor peo- ple as cannot find work , and to fend them round in rotation to the parishioners , propor- tionally as they pay to the rates ; to be em- ployed and paid , in the proportion of two- thirds by the person employing ...
... paid to fuch poor peo- ple as cannot find work , and to fend them round in rotation to the parishioners , propor- tionally as they pay to the rates ; to be em- ployed and paid , in the proportion of two- thirds by the person employing ...
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... paid by the overseers of the refpective parishes out of the money collected by the rates ; the duty of fuch overfeers is de- scribed at large in the bill ; and power is also given to the magiftrates to remove him for mifbehaviour , and ...
... paid by the overseers of the refpective parishes out of the money collected by the rates ; the duty of fuch overfeers is de- scribed at large in the bill ; and power is also given to the magiftrates to remove him for mifbehaviour , and ...
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... paid a larger proportion of their earnings to the ftock , as was propofed , would have a proportional greater chance of rifing in their fituations . To appropriate any part of the compulsory maintenance , to the encouragement of youth ...
... paid a larger proportion of their earnings to the ftock , as was propofed , would have a proportional greater chance of rifing in their fituations . To appropriate any part of the compulsory maintenance , to the encouragement of youth ...
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Page 142 - That the handicraftsmen in each hundred be bound to take every other of their respective apprentices from amongst the boys in some one of the schools in the said hundred without any money, which boys they may so take at what age they please, to be bound to them till the age of twenty-three years, that so the length of time may more than make amends for the usual sums that are given to handicraftsmen with such apprentices. That those also in the hundred who keep in their hands land of their own to...
Page 12 - Since the time of Henry VIII the wealth and revenue of the country have been continually advancing, and, in the course of their progress, their pace seems rather to have been gradually accelerated than retarded.
Page 115 - The real recompence of labour, the real quantity of the necessaries and conveniences of life which it can procure to the labourer, has, during the course of the present century, increased perhaps in a still greater proportion than its money price.
Page 17 - It regulates the money price of labour, which must always be such as to enable the labourer to purchase a quantity of corn sufficient to maintain him and his family either in the liberal, moderate, or scanty manner in which the advancing, stationary, or declining circumstances of the society oblige his employers to maintain him.
Page 16 - ... the rent of land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock ; and constitutes a revenue to three different orders of people, — to those who live by rent, to those who live by wages, and to those who live by profit. These are the three great original and constituent orders of every...
Page 144 - Peace as is aforesaid, for setting to work the Children of all such whose Parents shall not by the said Churchwardens and Overseers, or the greater Part of them, be thought able to keep and maintain their Children...
Page 139 - ... them. We do not suppose that children of three years old will be able at that age to get their livelihoods at the working school, but we are sure that what is necessary for their relief will more effectually have that use if it be distributed to them in bread at that school than if it be given to their fathers in money. What they have at home from their parents is seldom more than bread and water, and that, many of them, very scantily too. If therefore care be taken that they have...
Page 12 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour is a plain violation of this most sacred...
Page 194 - ... and workmen, which for the following of their work by the day or by the great, in any City, town corporate, market town or village...
Page 138 - ... management of it: for a great number of children giving a poor man a title to an allowance from the parish, this allowance is given once a week, or once a month, to the father in money...