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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    conclusive as to rates levied by, 1374; who to sign list when duties of overseers are performed by, 1381; consent of, to overseers giving security for payment of costs of valuation on appeal, 1381. Vestry clerk, defined, 1361; when to sign valuation list, 1381. clerk, appointment of, 380. meeting, claims of, 380; how called when parish divided into ecclesiastical districts, 531; notice of, 379; adjourn- ment of, 380; voting at, 380, 381, 382, 521, 526 ; poU of, 382. room of united benefices, 1428. Vestryman, qualification of, 1374. Vexatious removals and appeals, in what cases costs may be awarded by justices, 182. grounds of removal or appeal, 593; party making to pay costs, 875. removals, prevention of, 213. actions against overseers, 239. appeal, costs of, 593. Vicar to be chairman of parish vestry, 380. Village greens, prevention of nuisances on, 1111. Vill or village, what, 127; appointment of overseers for, 127; provisions as to pa- rishes, extended to, 411. Village, in what cases to maintain poor separately, 127. powers of justices in, 129. Visitation of workhouses, when neglected by guardians, poor law board may appoint a paid visitor, 870. of young persons taken from work- houses as servants or apprentices, 958. of lunatics in licensed houses and hos- pitals or workhouses, 1011; in asylums by guardians, overseers, &c., 1020; when not in asylums, 1021. of workhouses by justices, physician, &c., 272. of lunatics by order of the lord chan- cellor, 824. of criminal lunatics by commissioners in lunacy, 1152. of lunatics in workhouses, 1206. of schools and institutions for blind, deaf, dumb, &c., wherein pauper children are received, 1175. of children in workhouses by ministers of their own persuasion, 1330. Visiting committees of union workhouses, entries to be made by, with respect to lunatics in workhouse, 1208. Visitors of lunatic asylums, how they may sue and be sued, 1050. of woi'khouses, 272; when to be appointed by poor law commissioners, 870. Voluntary contributions, powers of poor law commissioners not to extend to, 595. Voluntary church rate, subscription of guardians to, 1326. Volunteer force, exemption of storehouses of, from local rates, 1215; grant of land belonging to local authorities for use of, 1215. Volunteers to the militia, repeal of provi- sions as to relief of wives of, 573. Voting at vestry meetings, 380, 381, 382, 521, 526; scrutiny of votes, 385. at parish vestries, 381, 416, 1007; by ovTiers rated to poor rate, 406. at election of guardians, 556, 776; by proxy, 556, 776; ratepayers must be rated for a year, 557; and have paid rates, 557; how corporations are to vote, 557; joint-stock companies, 557; how, when parish is divided into wards, 779. by proxy at election of guardians, 1310; in wards at elections, 1310; cor- porations, companies, &c., 1310; defec- tive poor rate not to disqualify, 1311. for members of parliament, rating small tenements in such case, 406; receipt of parochial relief a disqualification for, 500; revision of lists of voters, 503; Act for the registration of voters, 738. at meetings of union assessment com- mittee, 1185; by chairman of board of guardians, 941. Wages, recovery of artificers’, by overseers, when not paid in the current coin, 470. attachment of, in hands of master or employer, in repayment of relief by way of loan, 572. of apprentices, abatement of, for mis- behaviour, 426. how applied to the relief of the fami- lies of seamen, 1061. Wales, comprehended in England, 244. Wanderer, chargeability of, on common fund, 1157. Wandering poor, relief and burial of, to be charged to common fund, 898; may be searched on their admission to workhouse, 901. lunatics, in boroughs, maintenance of, 1072. Wards, division of parishes into, for elec- tion of guardians, 778; qualification and election of guardians in, 779. division of parishes into, when situated partly in rural and partly in m’ban sani- tary districts, 1449. voting in, by proxy, at election of guardians, 1310; generally, 1310. at workhouses in metropolis for casual poor, 1235,1236; hours when they shall be open for admission to, 1237. War-office passes to discharged soldiers, 324.