| Allan Everett Marble - Medical - 1993 - 384 pages
...the County of Halifax for setting to work the children of all such, whose parents shall not, by said overseers, or the greater part of them, be thought able to keep or maintain them, or any poor orphans, or by indenture to bind any such children or orphans as aforesaid... | |
| Lynn Hollen Lees - History - 1998 - 396 pages
...and several of the "substantial householders" jointly serving as "overseers of the poor" were to set to work "all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them" or no "daily trade." Children whose parents could not support them were to be apprenticed or given... | |
| Rogerson and tuxford - 1871 - 596 pages
...such justices of peace as is aforesaid, for setting to work the children of all such whose parent» shall not, by the said churchwardens and overseers,...also for setting to work all such persons, married or nnmarried, having no means to maintain them, and use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1818 - 596 pages
...required to take order, with the consent of Two or more Justices of the Peace, for setting to work the Children of all such whose Parents shall not, by the...greater part of them, be thought able to keep and 0 maintain their Children : AND whereas a practice hath very generally obtained, of giving Money out... | |
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