the money is wanted; and if two parishes be united, such person shall pay over their quota respectively to the or treasurer of treasurer (1) of such united district, taking his receipt; or uniteddistricts. shall permit the treasurer to draw drafts upon him, specifying the general purposes for which such money is to be applied, all which payments shall be allowed to the churchwarden or overseer in his accounts, and the accounts both of them and the guardian shall be examined monthly, and passed quarterly by the visitor, being verified on oath before a justice. Guardians sum for pur poses of this act. [By 41 Geo. III. c.9. s. 2. the guardians, at a monthly may order any meeting, with the approbation of the visitor, who shall sign the same, may make an order on the churchwardens, or overseers, or collector of the poor's rates, for so much money as shall be necessary for the purposes of 22 Geo. III. c. 83.; and, upon neglect to pay the same, it shall be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the said churchwardens, &c.] Justices to appoint a governor of the poor-house. Salary. Guardians for Sect. 9. Two justices of the limit where the poor-house shall be, shall, as soon as may be after agreement by a parish, or two or more united parishes, to adopt the provisions of this act, appoint, out of the persons recommended as in sect. 3., a governor for the poor-house, who shall have the care, management, and employment of the poor sent there, and shall receive the salary fixed by the said agreement, and shall be removable for misbehaviour by the visitor, with consent of the majority of guardians, or by two justices where a guardian shall be visitor. Sect. 10. The guardians for parishes united, shall forthunited parishes with nominate three persons, respectable in character and may nominate fortune, for the office of visitor, to two justices, who shall, persons for visitor. within three days, appoint one to be visitor; if he refuse, Justices to then they shall appoint another of the persons so nomiappoint. nated; and if he refuse, then the third; if he decline, the guardians shall serve monthly by rotation, subject to the control of the justices. And the visitor, if not a guardian (1) Sec sect. 12. may appoint a deputy. And every visitor shall superintend Visitor may the poor-house, and settle accounts between guardian and appoint a detreasurer, in case of dispute, and settle all doubts concerning puty. the persons who are to be sent thither (1), and enforce the Duties of. rules and regulations of this act, and prevent unnecessary expence, and the governor and treasurer shall be subject to his directions; and the visitor or deputy shall be freed, Exempt from whilst so acting, from serving parochial offices, and upon offices. serving parish juries, and a certificate by a justice acting for the limit shall be evidence thereof. Sect. 11. Two-thirds of the owners, &c. as aforesaid, Single parishes in a single parish, may nominate three persons for visitors, may have a and the justices shall appoint one as directed above. visitor. One of the guardians to be a treasurer. Sect.12. The guardians of united parishes shall recommend to the justices one of their own body to be appointed treasurer, and the justices shall appoint him, or any other guardian whom they think more fit; and the treasurer shall give security for duly accounting for the money received by him, and shall keep accounts, receive the money to be contributed by each parish, pay bills and expences allowed and ordered by the guardians, and lay his account before them at every meeting; and shall, once a-year, fourteen days before the Michaelmas quarter sessions, make out His duties. an account of the expences attending the poor-house, and of the number of poor persons, distinguishing their age and sex, and how they have been employed, and how much money hath been earned by the labour of the poor in the year preceding, which shall be laid before the visitor, and signified under his hands, if he approves the same, and shall then be transmitted to the clerk of the peace or town clerk, and by him laid before the sessions, and such treasurer shall be allowed an annual sum not exceeding 107. Salary of. as the visitor, if not a guardian, shall appoint, and if no such visitor, then as two justices shall appoint. [By 41 Geo. III. c. 9. s. 3. two justices, on application of Treasurer may two-thirds of owners in value, &c. may appoint a treasurer be appointed (1) See post, 105. Rex v. Laughton. for a single parish. Vacancies to be filled up. Offices when to determine. Justices of for the poor-house of a single parish, with a salary not exceeding 10%. according to 22 Geo. III. s.12.] Sect.13. Vacancies in any of the above-mentioned offices shall be filled up as soon as convenient, at the same meetings and on similar recommendations, as mentioned before. Sect.14. The offices of guardian, governor, visitor, and treasurer shall determine in Easter week next after the appointment, on the day of the public meeting for the purposes of this act; and the same persons may be continued in their respective offices. Sect. 15. If there be no justices in the limit where the other limits to poor-houses shall be, or only one, or if they be absent, the justices of other limits may act. act. Special sessions. House to be provided. Where to be situate. Houses on what terms hired. Wastes inclosed. Sect. 16. Justices may hold special sessions on due notice thereof, and adjourn any such sessions, for discharging the business under this act. Sect. 17. The guardians shall provide proper houses and buildings, either by erecting new ones on land to be purchased or rented, or by altering old ones, or by hiring; and shall fit them up, with the advice and approbation of the visitor, and provide utensils and materials for the employment of the poor. Sect. 18. The poor-house shall be situate within the parish, &c., and, if several be united, then within one of them, and not elsewhere, without the consent of three parts in four of such owners as aforesaid, in their meetings aforesaid. Sect, 19. The houses shall be hired on the terms given in the Schedule No.IV., and shall be free from all parochial and parliamentary taxes, except such, and to such amount, as they were assessed at the time of taking thereof. Sect. 27. The guardians may inclose by consent not exceeding ten acres of waste or common, near any house, for building upon and improving the same, for benefit of the poor-house. sold. Sect. 43. The guardians, with the approbation of owners, Poor-houses &c., as aforesaid, may sell any house provided for the poor of such place, and may apply the money for the purposes of this act, and may, by order of a justice, remove the Paupers repoor to any other house provided by such parish, if they refuse to go after fourteen days' notice. And by 1 & 2Geo.IV. c. 56. s. 1 & 2., notwithstanding an omission to appoint guardians in each successive year, or any informality in such appointment, they may, with the direction of the inhabitants in vestry, and with consent of two justices, sell any workhouse belonging to the parish or united parishes, and, after the expences of the sale, discharge incumbrances on the workhouses, and debts charged on the poor rates, and pay over the residue to the churchwardens, as part of the poor's rate to be collected. moved. be borrowed. Sect. 20. The visitor and guardian, where the expences Money may of erecting the building and purchasing the land, or their proportion thereof, where parishes are united, shall respectively amount to 100%. or upwards, may borrow the same at interest, and secure the money by a charge upon the poor's rate, in sums not exceeding 50%., and the guardians and their successors shall keep down the interest; and, when Assessments to the principal shall be called for, may borrow it from some other person by assignment of the security. poor's assessment shall continue at the same rate as when such poor-house was first established, till the debt and interest shall be discharged; and when the savings amount to one of the sums borrowed, it shall be paid off. And the remain the same till debt paid off. [43 Geo. III. c. 110. s. 1. reciting this last provision of Assessments 22 Geo. III. c. 83. s. 20., and the provisions of 42 Geo. III. may be diminished, c. 74. for paying off the sums borrowed, repeals so much of the first-mentioned act as requires the assessments for the relief of the poor to continue the same, until the debt contracted, and interest, shall be fully discharged; and s.2. provides that the assessments may be diminished from time to time, provided the guardians pay off one-twentieth part of the sums borrowed, and keep down the interest of all sums borrowed.] Sect. 21. The visitor and guardian shall be a body corporate, and enabled by that name to sue and be sued, and to take by purchase or lease any lands not exceeding in any town one acre, and in the open country twenty acres, for the purposes of this act, and also all voluntary grants and donations of land for the use of the poor. Sect. 22. authorises corporate or collegiate bodies, &c. trustees, committees, and others, &c. on behalf of incapacitated persons, to sell or lease lands for the use of the poorhouse and poor, not exceeding the quantities aforesaid. Sect. 23. provides, that the sums paid for such lands, &c. so purchased, if exceeding 20%., shall be laid out in the purchase of other lands, &c. which shall be settled in the same way, and to the same uses and trusts, as the lands, &c. sold were; the parish to be at the expence of the conveyance; and the money, until the purchase, shall be placed out at interest in the public funds, and the interest thereof, or rent of the premises, if the same are rented, shall go to those entitled to the land to be so purchased. Sect. 24. The poor persons sent to every poor-house shall be maintained at the general expence of the parishes, according to the terms, and in the proportions hereinafter mentioned; and the treasurer, with the assistance of the governor, shall provide all necessaries for the maintenance of such poor, and keep an account thereof; and the guardians shall meet at the poor-house on the first Monday in every month to state and examine the accounts of the preceding month; at which meeting, the treasurer shall produce the account of debts incurred in the preceding month for materials for manufacture, furniture, repairs of the building, |