OVERSEERS,

by statute, i. 52.

justices of the peace, i. 51.

appointment of, how enforced, i. 38. 58.
indictment, i. 38. 58.

form of appointment, i.53.

must express time for which made, i. 54.
how executed, i. 54.

when made, i. 45.

on Sunday, i. 55.

double appointments of, i. 55.
last in time void, i. 56.

appeals against the appointment, i. 56.
who may appeal, i. 56.

persons appointed wrongfully, i. 56.
parishioners, i. 56.
See Appeal.

majority, when power to act. See ii. 347. n. (3.) 376.
whether churchwardens must join, i. 59. ii. 167.

sessions, power of, on appeal, i. 56.

order of, removed by certiorari into K. B., i. 57.

original appointment removeable, i. 57.
quashed, how, and for what, i. 57.
defects on face of order, i. 57.

or on affidavit, i. 57.

when to be removed there, i. 58.
not during appeal, i. 58.

nor till after next sessions, i. 58.

continuance in office, i. 59.

duty of, i. 58, 59, 60.

of assistant, i. 60.

majority act, i. 59.

to make rates, &c., i. 59. 61.

one cannot make a rate, i. 62.

how compellable to make rate, i. 62.

See Poor Rates.

not intitled to salary, i. 67. in not.

aliter assistant overseers by 59 G. III. c. 12., i. 67.
to levy arrears of rate, i. 68.

to reimburse former overseers, i.70.

can repay themselves money expended for parish,

i. 68.

may be reimbursed, when, i. 70.

may consent to non-payment of poor's rate, i. 257.
granting certificates, ii. 165.

See Certificates.

action by, on bastardy securities, ii. 318.

by what title to sue, ii. 318.

must sue in name of existing overseers, ii. 319.
liable to penalty for supplying goods to the poor
for profit, ii. 384.

OVERSEERS,

but not, if to an individual, ii. 386.

overseers for the time being to prosecute offences
against the property of workhouse, ii. 389.

goods, furniture, &c., belonging to workhouses, to
be vested in overseers, ii. 389.

accountable for money received to maintain wife,
ii. 270.

accounts of,

statutes concerning, ii. 438.

delivery of a balance sheet insufficient, ii. 442.
when can be called for, ii. 443.

how kept, ii. 443.

if in office successive years, ii. 443.

power of justices to audit them, ii. 444.

to commit for not delivering under 43 Eliz., ii. 444.
in what cases, ii. 444.

to fine, ii. 445.

form of commitment, ii. 445.

as churchwarden, for refusing to account, bad,
ii. 445.

so, "until he shall have yielded up all books," &c.,
should be the particular book of which he is con-
victed of not delivering up, ii. 445, 446.

it must conclude until he account, ii. 446.
until discharged by course of law, void, ii. 446.
remedy for refusing to account under 17 Geo. II., ii. 447.
allowance by magistrates, ii. 448.

mandamus to compel it, ii. 448.

how far subject to control of K. B., ii. 450.

allowance or disallowance of justices returned by
certiorari, ii. 450.

K. B. will not go except on what appears on face of
order, ii. 451.

not upon facts stated in affidavits, ii. 451.

but it will on facts stated by sessions for its opinion,
ii. 451.

by magistrates under 50 Geo. III. c. 409., ii. 449.
who may examine and strike out items, ii. 449.
signify their allowance, ii. 449.

commit if account is not delivered, ii. 449.
this act does not dispense with necessity of deli-
vering account to successors under 17 Geo. II.,
ii. 450.

mandamus to compel allowance, ii. 450.
balance of account; the order to pay, ii. 451.
may be joint, ii. 452.

to whom payable, ii. 452.

remedies to enforce payment, ii. 452.
by warrant of distress, ii. 452.

VOL. II.

commitment, ii. 452.

OVERSEERS,

under 50 Geo. III. c. 49., ii. 453.

for not delivering up goods, &c., ii. 453.
not paying balances, ii. 453.

justices must issue warrant on application of one parish
officer, ii. 453.

indictment, ii. 453.

if overseer becomes bankrupt, ii. 454.

before his year expires, ii. 454.

balance proved under his commission is
intitled to his discharge, ii. 455.

after, ii. 455.

overseer dies, balance to be paid prior to other
debts, ii. 456.

mandamus to justices refusing to enforce payment,
ii. 456.

return, that vestry have ordered overseers to retain it,
bad, ii. 456.

how reimbursed money due to them, ii. 457.

from balance in other officers' hands, ii. 457.
acting in different districts, ii. 457.

compellable to deliver parish documents to their suc
cessors, ii. 458.

on pain of commitment, ii. 458.

by mandamus, ii. 458.

appeals against their accounts, ii. 459.

no time limited for, by stat. of Eliz., ii. 462. n. (3).
See Appeal.

at least there must be time for notice, ii. 465.
the appeal must be to the next possible sessions,

ii. 466.

appeals by them, ii. 470.

absence or negligence in office, ii. 473.

orders on may be removed in B. R. without
appeal, ii, 588.
See Appeal.

sessions power to remit to the two justices, ii. 469.
punishment of, for misbehaviour,

penalties, ii. 472., &c.)

levied by each other, ii. 474.

indictment, ii. 474.

what offences, ii. 474.

not taking the office, ii, 475.

misfeasance, ii. 475.

not providing for the poor, ii.475.

misusing them, ii. 475.

conspiring to marry a pauper, ii. 475.

refusing to account, ii. 476.

not receiving pauper, ii. 476.

by information, ii. 477.

only in extraordinary cases, ii. 477.

OVERSEERS,

not for compelling paupers to marry,
ii. 477.

but for removing a pauper near her time,
ii. 477.

altering poor rate, ii. 477.

action, ii. 478.

for maintenance paid in mistake, ii. 478.
See Action.

sessions cannot attach them, ii. 475.
information quo warranto lies not,
ii. 478.

may disobey orders made without
jurisdiction, ii. 476.

protection in their Office, ii. 480.

statutes concerning, ii. 480.

copy of their warrant given before action, though
after six days, ii. 482.

entitled to six days notice to produce their warrant, ii.

481, 482.

action must be brought within six months, ii. 482.

double costs, when, ii. 482.

to have the magistrate joined, ii. 481-483.
protection by 24 Geo. II. c. 44. does not extend to re-
plevin, ii. 483.

PACKET-BOAT,

rateable, when, i. 202.

where, i. 216.

PALACES,

in the king's occupation, not rateable, i. 192.
otherwise, if demised to a subject, i. 193.

or a subject has a beneficial occupation of, i. 193.
PANNAGE,

See Herbage and Pannage.
PARENTAGE, Settlement by. See Birth.

PARENTS,

compellable to maintain their family, how, ii. 267.
by order of the justices in petty sessions. App. p. 44.
See Maintenance of the Poor.

PARISH,

origin of maintaining poor by, i. 7.

appointment of overseers by 43 Eliz. confined to, i. 8.
or reputed parish, i. 8.

inconveniences arising therefrom, i. 9.

remedied by 13 and 14 Car. II. c. 12., i. 9.

how subdivided into townships, i. 17.

facts necessary, i. 17.

inability to maintain poor as parish, i. 17.

must consist of two or more townships, i. 17. 26.

inability, how shown, i. 17. 26. 34.

when not, i. 18-23.

PARISH,

effect of agreement to maintain its poor by districts, to
shew inability, i.21.

separation into townships on bond of indemnity, i. 23.
in different counties, maintain its poor, how, i. 25.
may still be divided, i. 27.

townships of, may reunite, i. 29.
division of, effect of, i. 35.

incorporated, may be rated in aid, i. 241. n. (2).
See Division, Overseers, Township, &c.
settlement by parishes, origin of, i. 274.
bound to support casual poor, ii. 437.

cannot recover sums expended in so relieving, ii. 437.
PARISH Apprentice,

PARISH Clerk,

See Apprentices. Parish.

gains a settlement, i. 618.

PARISHIONER,

definition of, i. 72. n.(1).

compellable to give evidence, when, i. 485.

when not, i. 486.

declarations of evidence, when, i. 487.

interest arising during appeal, i. 487.

is made competent witness by 54 Geo. III. c. 170., i.

488.

PARISH Officers,

churchwardens, i. 7.40.

See Churchwarden.

overseers, i. 7. 44.

See Overseers.

punishment of, for misbehaviour, ii. 472., &c.
by penalties under statute, ii. 472.
neglecting to attend monthly meeting, ii. 472.
refusing to receive pauper removed, ii. 472.
for neglecting duty under vagrant act, ii. 473.
for paying poor in base money, ii. 473.
for disobeying lawful warrant, ii. 473.

for not giving information of lunatic pauper, ii. 474.
for supplying goods to the poor, ii. 384.

accountable for the money they receive under an order
to seize the goods, &c., of a person leaving his family
chargeable, ii. 271.

action by, on bastardy securities, how to sue, ii. 318.
must levy on each other, ii. 474.

punishable by indictment, ii. 474.

not providing for the poor, ii. 475.

misusing them, ii. 475.

conspiring to marry them into other parishes, &c.,
ii. 475.

not receiving pauper, ii. 476.

disobeying justices' orders, ii. 476.

See Indictment.