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City corruption and mal-administration display'd; Occasion'd by the ill management of the publick money in general: with some remarks upon the modest enquiry into the conduct of the Court of Aldermen, &c. Address'd to the citizens of London against the ensuing election for common-council-men. By a Citizen.
Citizen.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
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Questions, to which answers are to be returned by virtue of an Act passed in the twenty-sixth year of his Majesty King George the Third, intituled, An act for procuring returns upon oath of all charitable donations for the benefit of poor persons in the several parishes and places within that part of Great Britain called England. ...
Great Britain.Date: 1786]- Books
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City corruption and mal-administration display'd; occasion'd by the ill management of the publick money in general: with some remarks upon the Modest enquiry into the conduct of the Court of Aldermen, &c. Address'd to the Citizens of London against the ensuing Election for Common-Council-Men. By a citizen.
Citizen.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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The compleat parish-officer; containing, I. The authority and proceedings of High Constables, Petty Constables, Headboroughs, and Tithingmen, in every Branch of their Duties pursuant to Acts of Parliament: With the High Constables Precepts, Presentments, Warrants, &c. II. Of Churchwardens, how chosen, their Business in Repairing of Churches, Bells, &c. and Assigning of Seats; the Manner of Passing their Accounts, and the Laws concerning the Church in all Cases; and an Abstract of the Act for building Fifty new Churches in London and Westminster. III. Of Overseers of the Poor, and their Office; their Power in Relieving, Employing, and Settling, &c. of poor Persons; the Laws relating to the Poor, and Settlements, and the Statutes concerning Masters and Servants. IV. of surveyors of the Highways, and Scavengers, how elected, their Business in amending the Ways, &c. and the Duty of others, with the Methods of Taxation, and Laws of the Highways. Together with the statutes relating to Hackney Coaches and Chairs, &c.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: 1731- Books
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The universal officer of justice. Containing the general power and authority by law, of the several officers and ministers following, viz. 1. Of justices of peace. 2. Of Clerks of the Peace. 3. Of Custos Rotulorums. 4. Of Commissioners of Hackney-Coaches. 5. Of Hawkers and Pedlars. 6. And of the Wine Licence, &c. 7. Of Mayors and Bailiffs of Towns. 8. Of Clerks of Markets and Toll-Takers. 9. Of Sheriffs of Counties. 10. Of Under-Sheriffs, and their Bailiffs, &c. 11. Of Coroners. 12. Of Constables, &c. 13. Of Church wardens and Sidesmen. 14. Of Vestry-Men. 15. Of Overseers of the Poor. 16. And surveyors of the highways. The Whole being Collected from all the Books of our Common and Statute Laws written upon the Subjects. And render'd generally Useful to all Sorts of Persons.
Date: MDCCXXX. [1730]- Books
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A help to magistrates, and minister of justice, a ... guide to pari... officers. Containing plain directions to Justices of the Peace, in material things relating to their office, in and out of Sessions. To their clerks, in drawing forms of warrants and other necessary writings. 3. A help to grand and petty juries. 4. Penalties upon forestallers of markets, fairs, badgers, drovers, butchers, tanners, inholders, &c. 5. The rates of servants wages, according to statute law, &c. 6. Some directions to coroners, and their inquests, in many material things relating to their office and duty, &c. 7. Customs and other advantages peculiar to the city of London, in priviledges, law-matters, proceedings in the court of requests, attachments, court of orphans, and other things. 8. The office and duty of a High Constable, Petty Constable, Head Borough, tything man, Bailiff, &c. 9. The office and duty of church-wardens and sides-men. 10. The office and duty of the overseers of the poor. 11. The office and duty of toll-keepers and fair-keepers. 12. The office and duty of surveyors of high-ways, scavengers, &c. The third edition. With amendments, and large additions agreeable to the several Acts of Parliament, in these cases made and provided, not in any former impression. By P.S. Gent.
P. S.Date: 1704- Books
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The case of the county Palatine of Chester.
Cheshire (England)Date: 1747?]- Books
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City corruption and mal-administration displayd; occasion'd by the ill management of the publick money in general: with some remarks upon the Modest enquiry in the conduct of the Court of Aldermen, &c. Address'd to the citizens of London against the ensuing election for common-council-men. By a citizen.
Citizen.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]