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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... these might fomewhat increase the diftrefs of difor- derly families , and thereby diminish somewhat of their ability to bring up children , they would not , probably , diminish much the po- pulation of the country . B. 5. c . 2 ...
... these might fomewhat increase the diftrefs of difor- derly families , and thereby diminish somewhat of their ability to bring up children , they would not , probably , diminish much the po- pulation of the country . B. 5. c . 2 ...
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... these publications are noticed , it may be proper to give a fummary abftract of the bill which Mr. Gilbert offered to the legislature of his country to be paffed into a law , and which he introduced to the attention of the public , by a ...
... these publications are noticed , it may be proper to give a fummary abftract of the bill which Mr. Gilbert offered to the legislature of his country to be paffed into a law , and which he introduced to the attention of the public , by a ...
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... These commiffioners fhall appoint not more than forty , nor less than twenty , committee- men in each district ; fhall limit their qualifi- cation by estate ; and shall fix the salary to be paid to the district agent ; and the committee ...
... These commiffioners fhall appoint not more than forty , nor less than twenty , committee- men in each district ; fhall limit their qualifi- cation by estate ; and shall fix the salary to be paid to the district agent ; and the committee ...
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... these circumstances have taken place . Mr. Godschall , in his general plan of paro- chial and provincial police , complains , and with much reafon , of the negligent execution of the poor laws , and with great truth and propriety ...
... these circumstances have taken place . Mr. Godschall , in his general plan of paro- chial and provincial police , complains , and with much reafon , of the negligent execution of the poor laws , and with great truth and propriety ...
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... these publications ; the author alfo compares the fum of the propor- tion of contributions propofed to be raised by his plan , with the amount now levied by the poor's rate in his parish , to fhew the advantage and facility of the ...
... these publications ; the author alfo compares the fum of the propor- tion of contributions propofed to be raised by his plan , with the amount now levied by the poor's rate in his parish , to fhew the advantage and facility of the ...
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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...