Volume 2

The statutes in force relating to the poor laws : to Boards of Guardians, district school and asylum managers, overseers, and the Local Government Board, from 43 Eliz. c.2, to 35 & 36 Vict, c.93, together with digests of the decisions of the courts upon each statute / by William Cunningham Glen.

  • Glen, W. Cunningham (William Cunningham), 1814-1892.
Date:
1873
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The statutes in force relating to the poor laws : to Boards of Guardians, district school and asylum managers, overseers, and the Local Government Board, from 43 Eliz. c.2, to 35 & 36 Vict, c.93, together with digests of the decisions of the courts upon each statute / by William Cunningham Glen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    parish, or by an overseer of the poor of such parish; hut that every such notice so signed shall be affixed on or near to the principal door of such church or chapel. Decrees, &c. of IV. And be it further enacted, that from and after the first ecclesiastical (Jay of January next no decree relating to a faculty, nor any S^rea(?^ other decree, citation, or proceeding whatsoever in any eccle- churclies. siastical court, shall be read or published in any church or chapel during or immediately after divine service. Act not to ex- Y. Provided always, that nothing in this Act shall extend tend to notices or be construed to extend to the publication of banns, nor to notice of the celebration of divine service or of sermons, nor to restrain the curate, in pursuance of the rules in the Book of Common Prayer, from declaring unto the people what holy days or fasting days are in the week following to be observed, nor to restrain the minister from proclaiming or publishing what is prescribed by the rules of the Book of Common Prayer, or enjoined by the Queen or by the ordinary of the place. VI. All the provisions of this Act shall extend and be con- strued to extend to the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, [the Isle of Man{a),~\ and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark. 1 VICT. Chap. 50. An Act to facilitate the Conveyance of Lands and Buildings for the Purposes of Two Acts passed respectively in the Fifth and Sixth Years of His late Majesty King William the Fourth. [15th July, 1837.] “ Whekeas an Act was passed in the fifth year of the reign of 4&5Will.IV. His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled ‘An Act c* 76. for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws re- lating to the Poor in England and Wales: ’ And whereas another Act was passed in the sixth year of the reign of His 5 &6 Will. IV. said late Majesty, intituled ‘An Act to facilitate the Con- c. 69. veyance of Workhouses and other property of Parishes and of Incorporations or Unions of Parishes in England and Wales: ’ And whereas doubts are entertained as to whether the herein recited Acts respectively apply to lands or buildings or other hereditaments of copyhold or customary tenure; and it is ex- pedient that such doubts should be removed, and that the pro- visions of the said Acts should be extended in some respects: ” Be it therefore enacted and declared by the Queen’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Provisions of Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present recited Act to parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that (a) Repealed as to the Isle of Man by 33 & 34 Viet. c. 51, s. 2. purely eccle- siastical. Extension of Act.