A History of the Scotch Poor Law: In Connexion with the Condition of the PeopleJ. Murray, 1856 - 288 páginas |
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able-bodied persons able-bodied poor according administration afford amount appears applications appointed assessment asylum begging board of supervision burghs Caithness casual poor cholera church collections circumstances commissioners complaint condition cottars court of session crofters crofts declared destitution distress districts duties employment empowered England English Poor Law entitled established execution expended expenditure funds Highlands houses idle beggars impotent poor increase infirm poor inhabitants inquiry inspectors James James VI justices of peace kirk session labour land likewise lunatic magistrates manner means and substance medical relief ment mode necessary number of casual number of parishes ordained overseers Paisley parliament parochial boards passed pauper poor in Scotland poor persons poorhouse population pounds Scots presbytery present Act proclamation provost and bailies punished raised refuse regard removed Report residence respect Scotch Scots Sections settlement sheriffs Sir John McNeill sornares statute thereof tion towns vagabonds vagrants voluntary contributions
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Página 47 - There are at this day in Scotland (besides a great many poor families very meanly provided for by the church boxes, with others, who, by living upon bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door.
Página 175 - And be it enacted that in estimating the annual value of lands and heritages the same shall be taken to be the rent at which, one year with another, such lands and heritages might in their actual state be reasonably expected to let from year to year...
Página 47 - And though the number of them be, perhaps, double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet, in all times, there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection, either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and Nature.
Página 47 - Many murders have been discovered among them ; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision, to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them,) but they rob many poor people, who live in houses distant from any neighborhood.
Página 47 - No magistrate could ever discover or be informed which way one in a hundred of these wretches died, or that ever they were baptized. Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in...
Página 170 - An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales," and by all other Acts amending the same, do hereby (a) See this Schedule, post.
Página 97 - Parliament, do statute, enact, and declare, that if any woman shall conceal her being with child during the whole space, and shall not call for and make use of help and assistance in the birth, the child being found dead or amissing, the mother shall be holden and reputed the murtherer of her own child ; " and the Act concluded by declaring that the woman shall be convicted of the murder, "though there be no appearance of wound or bruise upon the body of the child.
Página 190 - To ascertain from time to time from the District Medical Officer, the names of any poor persons whom such Medical Officer may have attended or supplied with medicines, without having received an order from himself to that effect. No. 5. In every case of a poor person receiving medical relief, as soon as may be, and from...
Página 102 - My lords and gentlemen : — the public business of this session being now over, it is full time to put an end to it. I am persuaded that we and our posterity will reap the benefit of the union of the two kingdoms, and I doubt not that as this parliament has had the honour to conclude it, you will, in your several stations, recommend to the people of this nation, a grateful sense of her...
Página 134 - Wales, and into the manner in which those laws are administered, and to report . . . whether any and what alterations, amendments, or improvements may be beneficially made in the said laws, or in the manner of administering them, and how the same may best be carried into effect.