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Public assistance and unemployment assistance : being the relevant sections from Social administration including the Poor laws / by John J. Clarke.
Clarke, John Joseph, 1879-1969.Date: 1937- Books
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A compilation of the laws of the state of Pennsylvania, relative to the poor from the year 1700, to 1795, inclusive. Published for the Guardians of the Poor.
Pennsylvania.Date: 1796- Books
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Report of the Poor law commissioners to the most noble the Marquis of Normanby, Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home department, on the continuance of the Poor law commission, and on some further amendments of the laws relating to the relief of the poor. With appendices.
Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.Date: 1840- Books
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The statutes and by-laws of the Corporation of the Governor and Directors of the Hospital for Poor French Protestants, and their descendents, residing in Great Britain.
Hospital for Poor French Protestants.Date: 1761- Books
Political economists and the English Poor laws : a historical study of the influence of classical economics on the formation of social welfare policy / Raymond G. Cowherd.
Cowherd, Raymond Gibson, 1910-Date: [1977], ©1977- Books
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The charter and by-laws of the corporation of the governor and directors of the Hospital for Poor French Protestants and their descendents, residing in Great Britain.
Corporation of the Governor and Directors of the Hospital for Poor French Protestants and Their Descendants Residing in Great Britain.Date: 1876- Books
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The charter and by-laws of the corporation of the governor and directors of the Hospital for Poor French Protestants and their Descendants Residing in Great Britain.
French Protestant Hospital (London, England)Date: 1892- Books
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Some account of the Shrewsbury House of Industry. Its establishment, regulations, and bye-laws: with hints to those who may have similar institutions in view. Fifth edition. To which is now added, a large introduction, Containing General Observations On the present State of the Poor, And The Defective System Of The Poor's Laws. By I. Wood.
Wood, Isaac.Date: [1800]- Books
The charter and by-laws of the Corporation of the Governor and Directors of the Hospital for Poor French Protestants and their descendants residing in Great Britain, 1718 : with lists of the officers.
Corporation of the Governor and Directors of the Hospital for Poor French Protestants and Their Descendants Residing in Great Britain.Date: 1972- Books
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Poor-laws: or, The laws and statutes relating to the settling, maintenance, and employment of the poor. Containing all the statutes under this head, from the beginning of the reign of Q. Elizabeth, the first time any poor-laws were enacted in this kingdom, to the present time; including the last new Act 9 Geo. for better providing for the poor. Of use to all Justices of Peace, ministers, churchwardens, overseers of the poor, and other inhabitants of parishes, to know their duty herein. Written in a new alphabetical method.
Great Britain.Date: 1724- Books
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The London health laws : a manual of the law affecting the housing and sanitary condition of Londoners, with special reference to the dwellings of the poor / issued by the Mansion House Council on the Dwellings of the Poor.
Date: 1894- Books
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Observations on the defects of the poor laws, and on the causes and consequences of the great Increase and Burden of the Poor. With a Proposal for redressing these Grievances. In a Letter to a Member of Parliament. By Thomas Alcock, A. M.
Alcock, Thomas, 1709-1798.Date: 1752- Books
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The statutes and by-laws of the Corporation of the Governor and Directors of the Hospital for Poor French Protestants, and their descendants, residing in Great Britain : Ordres et reglemens pour la Corporation ... de l'Hopital, etc.
Corporation of the Governor and Directors of the Hospital for Poor French Protestants and Their Descendants Residing in Great BritainDate: [1741]- Books
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A dialogue, in two conversations, between a Gentleman, a Pauper, and his Friend, intended as An answer to a pamphlet, Published by the Rev. Mr. Potter, intitled Observations on the poor laws, on the Present State of the Poor, and on Houses of Industry. By Thomas Mendham, Of Briston, in Norfolk.
Mendham, Thomas.Date: 1775- Books
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An impartial examination of a pamphlet, intitled, Considerations on several Proposals lately made for the better Maintenance of the Poor: with some serious and occasional animadversions on this important subject. To which are annexed, copies of the Considerations; and of another Pamphlet, intitled, Remarks on the laws relating to the poor.
Creed, James, Sir.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
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An account of the nature and views, of the Philanthropic Society, Instituted In MDCCLXXXVIII, For The Prevention Of Crimes, BY The Admission Of The Offspring Of Convicts, And For The Reform Of Criminal Poor Children. To which are annexed, the laws and regulations of the Society, &c.
Philanthropic Society (London, England)Date: 1797- Books
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[Statutes : Sanitary laws & Quarantine Act, 1825].
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: [1825-1868-1871]- Books
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An examination of the alterations in the poor's laws, proposed by Dr. Burn, and a refutation of his objections to workhouses, so far as they relate to hundred houses. Together with Observations upon the Bill lately offered to Parliament for ̀̀the better Relief and Employment of the Poor.'' and Some Objections to a Proposal founded upon That Bill, for an Application to Parliament ̀̀for the Relief and more comfortable Maintenance of the Poor in the County of Norfolk.'' The Whole Humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Legislature.
Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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Considerations on the poor laws, on the Present State of the Poor, and on Houses of Industry. With some occasional remarks on a pamphlet lately published on these subjects, by the Reverend R. Potter. Occasioned by a bill now depending in Parliament for establishing an house of industry, for the hundreds of Mitford and Launditch, in the County of Norfolk.
Date: 1775- Books
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The statutes and by-laws of the Corporation of the Governor and Directors of the Hospital for Poor French Protestants and Their Descendants Residing in Great Britain = Statuts & reglemens pour la Corporation des gouverneur et directeurs de l'Hopital pour les pauvres françois protestants, et leurs descendants, residents dans la Grande-Bretagne.
Corporation of the Governor and Directors of the Hospital for Poor French Protestants and Their Descendants Residing in Great Britain.Date: 1810- Books
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First annual report of the Corporation Instituted for the Relief of the Poor, and punishing vagabonds and sturdy beggars, in the Queen's County. To which is added, a view of the poor laws, at different periods in this kingdom; with observations. Published at the request of the corporation, by Edward Ledwich, L.L.B. vicar of aghaboe, in the Queen's County.
Corporation for the Relief of the Poor, and for Punishing Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars in the County of the City of Dublin.Date: 1776- Books
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The laws respecting parish matters. Containing the several offices and duties of churchwardens, overseers of the poor, constables, watchmen, and Other Parish Officers. The Laws Concerning Rates and Assessments, Settlements and Removals of the Poor, and of the Poor in General. The Laws relating to Repairs of Highways, Weights and Measures, &c. The whole laid down in a plain and easy Manner: in which all technical Terms of Law are familiarly explained. As collected and digested from the several reports, and other books of authority, Up to the Present Time. Also an appendix of precedents; Comprising a great Variety of the most approved Forms of all such Instruments as most frequently occur in the Management of Parish Affairs. The second edition, improved and much enlarged. By the author of The laws of landlord and tenant, Law of Wills, Laws of Masters and Servants, &c.
Bird, James Barry.Date: [1799]- Books
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Remarks on the report of Her Majesty's Commissioners on the Poor-Laws of Scotland, presented to Parliament in 1844, and on the dissent of Mr. Twisleton from that report / by William Pulteney Alison.
Alison, William Pulteney, 1790-1859.Date: 1844- Books
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Observations on the bills for amending and rendering more effectual the laws relative to houses of correction: For the better Relief and Employment of the Poor: And For amending and rendering more effectual the Laws relative to Rogues, Vagabonds, Beggars, and other Idle and Disorderly Persons. With a table annexed, for the Direction of the several Officers and Persons to adjust and pass their Accounts, under the Direction of the Act, in the easiest and most concise Manner.
Gilbert, Thomas, 1719 or 1720-1798.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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A plan for the establishment of charity-houses for exposed or deserted women and girls, and for penitent prostitutes. Observations concerning the Foundling-Hospital, shewing the ill consequences of giving public support thereto. Considerations relating to the poor and th poor's-laws of England; Wherein the great Increases of Unemployed Poor, and of Thieves and Prostitutes, are shewn to be immediately owing to the Severity, as well as the Defects of our Poor's - Laws; and to be primarily caused by the Monopolizing of Farms, and the Indosure of Common Lands; which have likewise decreased the Number of People, and brought our Woollen Manufacturies into a precarious State, as is made appear by Extracts from several Laws and other Authorities. Also, a New System of Policy, Most humbly proposed, for Relieving, Employing, and Ordering the Poor of England; Whereby a great Saving may be made in the Charge of Maintaining Them; the Poor's - Rates be kept nearly Equal in all Parishes, as in Equity they ought to be; and every Pretence for wandering about Begging, be taken away. To which are annexed, Forms of the principal Accounts necessary to be kept for those Purposes, whereby such Persons as are not conversant in Accounting will easily be able to comprehend all that is here proposed on that Head. By J. Massie.
Massie, J. (Joseph), -1784.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]