The English Poor Law System, Past and Present

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Knight & Company, 1888 - 332 sivua
 

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Sivu 156 - ... the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenants' rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Sivu 182 - The rights of married women with respect to their property are established by the Married Women's Property Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Viet., c. 75).
Sivu 53 - To these were added as ex-officio commissioners the President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Home Secretary, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The...
Sivu 165 - Board is composed of unpaid members who do nothing — the Lord President of the Council, all the Secretaries of State, the Lord Privy Seal and the Chancellor of the Exchequer— a most august and reverend body.
Sivu 23 - House their opinion, that, unless some efficacious check be interposed, there is every reason to think that the amount of the. assessment will continue, as it has done, to increase, till at a period more or less remote, according to the progress the evil has already made in different places, it shall have absorbed the profits of the property on which the rate may have been assessed, producing thereby the neglect and ruin of the land, and the waste or removal of other property, to the utter subversion...
Sivu 5 - Whereas all the parts of this realm of England and Wales be presently with rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars exceedingly pestered, by means whereof daily happeneth in the same realm horrible murders, thefts, and other great outrage, to the high displeasure of Almighty God, and to the great annoyance of the common weale...
Sivu 156 - ... rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rentcharge, if any, and if the landlord undertook to bear the cost of the repairs and insurance, and the other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain the hereditament in a state to command that rent...
Sivu 130 - The fundamental principle with respect to the legal relief of the poor is, that the condition of the pauper ought to be, on the whole, less eligible than that of the independent labourer.
Sivu 42 - Act all Relief given to or on account of the Wife, or to or on account of any Child or Children under the Age of Sixteen, not being blind or deaf and dumb, shall be considered as given to the Husband of such Wife, or to the Father of such Child or Children, as the Case may be...
Sivu 168 - Act it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, by such Rules, Orders, or Regulations as they may think fit, to declare to what Extent and for what Period the Relief to be given to able-bodied Persons or to their Families in any particular Parish or Union may be administered out of the Workhouse...

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