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... Poor Law - Decline of old Institutions . 5. County Rates - Lunatic Asylums - Highways - Poor Law-- Local Courts - Municipal Government - Vestries - Preserva- tion of the Peace . 6. Local Courts - Constables - Justices of the Peace ...
... Poor Law - Decline of old Institutions . 5. County Rates - Lunatic Asylums - Highways - Poor Law-- Local Courts - Municipal Government - Vestries - Preserva- tion of the Peace . 6. Local Courts - Constables - Justices of the Peace ...
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... poor debtors detained there , by payment of their debts . So trifling were the amounts for which the majority were suffering incarceration , that the Society , in twenty years , were able to release 12,590 by an average payment of 45s ...
... poor debtors detained there , by payment of their debts . So trifling were the amounts for which the majority were suffering incarceration , that the Society , in twenty years , were able to release 12,590 by an average payment of 45s ...
Page 91
... Poor Law . But the importance of the measures as to bridges and highways is insignificant compared with that of another element of our local organisation which dates from the same period . Upon the dissolution of the monasteries , which ...
... Poor Law . But the importance of the measures as to bridges and highways is insignificant compared with that of another element of our local organisation which dates from the same period . Upon the dissolution of the monasteries , which ...
Page 92
... poor . St. 22 Hen . 8 , c . 12 , accordingly required all beggars and vagrants - both the aged and impotent , and also the able - bodied - to repair to the place of their birth : and St. 27 Hen . 8 , c . 25 , directed the authorities in ...
... poor . St. 22 Hen . 8 , c . 12 , accordingly required all beggars and vagrants - both the aged and impotent , and also the able - bodied - to repair to the place of their birth : and St. 27 Hen . 8 , c . 25 , directed the authorities in ...
Page 93
... poor on waste land in the parish . The powers which the Act gave to rural justices were to be exercised in boroughs and cities by the mayors , bailiffs , and other head officers . During the half century which followed the passing of ...
... poor on waste land in the parish . The powers which the Act gave to rural justices were to be exercised in boroughs and cities by the mayors , bailiffs , and other head officers . During the half century which followed the passing of ...
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Page 282 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
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Page 277 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of Parliament...