A bill, intended to be offered to Parliament, for the better relief and employment of the poor, within that part of Great Britain called England / [Thomas Gilbert].

  • Gilbert, Thomas, 1719 or 1720-1798
Date:
[1775]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A bill, intended to be offered to Parliament, for the better relief and employment of the poor, within that part of Great Britain called England / [Thomas Gilbert]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tween the Lord and Freeholders of fuch Manor, and applied as hereinbefore directed concerning Lands to be taken for the Ufe of the faid Corporation: Provided neverthelefs, that if any luch ycuhg Man, or the Owner or Poffeffor of luch Houfe and Land, for the Time being, fhall be guilty of a Felony, or of Perjury, or of Subornation of Perjury, and convided thereof in any Court of Juf- tice ; he or fhe fhall, from the Time of fuch Convidion, forfeit the faid Floufe and Land, and all his or her Intereft therein ; and the fame fhall, from that Time, veft in the Go¬ vernors of the Diftrid wherein the fame fhall lie, and be difpofed of by the Committee of Charity for the Time being, for the chari¬ table Purpofes of this Ad, in fuch Manner as they fhall think fit. And be it further Enaded, That the Subfcnpt'on Money to b. ■ik/r f i i /* • | j c c ‘ a into tiie Hands of the Trca Money to to be lubicribed as arorelaid, fhall be paid by each Subfcriber into the Hands of the Treafurer of each refpedive Diftrid wherein fuch Subfcription fhall be made, at the Time of fubfcribing, or with¬ in Three Months after, an AcCOUnt of Separate Accounts thereof which fhall be kept feparate from all other Accounts •, and all fuch Money fhall be veft- applied for the above Pu ed in the Governors of fuch Diftrid and their ^teere ?f charities^ the; Succefibrs, and fhall be placed out at Intereft in the Government Funds, and the Principal Money, with the Intereft or Dividends arifing thereupon, fhall make a Common Stock, and be applied from Time to Time for the Pur¬ pofes aforefaid, under the Diredion of the Committee of Charities hereinbefore men¬ tioned.