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Duty Free.l St. THOMAS' UNION. GROUND FOR A WORKHOUSE. WANTED, PIECE of GROUND of not less than Three Acres, well

... Duty Free.l St. THOMAS' UNION. GROUND FOR A WORKHOUSE. WANTED, PIECE of GROUND of not less than Three Acres, well supplied with Water, and situated within One Mile of the City Exeter, for the purpose of a WORKHOUSE for St. Thomas' Union. Proposals to be sent ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1836
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1583 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. ADDRESSED THE EDITOR. WORKHOUSE LIVERY. Your rambling correspondent has been ..

... ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. ADDRESSED THE EDITOR. WORKHOUSE LIVERY. Your rambling correspondent has been misinformed to the Guardian employing a pauper, being Vice-chairman. The only member of the Board, to whom such a defiance of Poor Law regulation can ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1849
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1719 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TOTNES

... the committee appointed to conduct the appeal against the rating of the union workhouse, reported to the Board that the rate, as far as regards the rating of the workhouse, had been confirmed, and recommended the Board to adopt a letter, which the committee ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1846
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 972 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

STATE OF TRADE, &c

... DitTRKSS.—The master of the workhouse of St. Matthew, Bethnal green, iv consequence of the over-crowded sfate of the workhouse, is endeavouring to obtain accommodation elsewhere for children and aged paupers. The workhouse has at present in it above paupers ...

Published: Saturday 13 November 1841
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WHEREAS I, JOHN COURTIS,of Gattey'sßuildings, Saint Sidwell,Exeter, having reported toditferent parties that ..

... without incumbrance, to act as NURSE in the Union Workhouse. A Testimonials as to character and ability, with Tenders stating the Salary required, to be delivered (free of expense) at the Workhouse at Honiton, before o'Cloekon MONDAY, the 29th of June ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1840
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 802 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ST. THOMAS UNION. CONTRACT FOR POTATOES. THE Board Guardians of this Union are desirous of receiving TENDERS ..

... Provisions usually supplied to Workhouses. The Contractors for supplying the Workhouse with Potatoes, must warrant them good, and state in their Tenders the quantity they can supply. The Bread and Flour delivered at the Workhouse will be paid for weekly. As ...

Published: Saturday 06 December 1845
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 565 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE NEW POOR-LAW

... confining relief to the able-bodied male paupers, in the workhouse only.—The power to give relief to widows with young children out of the workhouse.—Relief to the aged and infirm out of the workhouse.—The administration of medical relief.— Provision for ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1838
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 933 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POOR LAWS

... exceed one year's rate. The Commissioners bay* power to direct u.e buil iing workhouses without cnutent paiisiies, and charge rales with Oi.e tenth of its annual ainouut. 20- Workhouses s-tf different parishes may be united Commissioners, but each palish shall ...

Published: Saturday 03 May 1834
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 929 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CHEAP AND EXPEDITIOUS TRAVELLING THE -f- YES T °TNES Every Day at Half-past Eleven, after the arri__-Ct__-L ™' ..

... required to make and mend Shoes for the Paupers of the Union, and to instruct the Children in the Workhouse in his Trade, and to attend daily at the Workhouse for this purpose. N.B.—lf one competent person offer to fill both situations, there will be no ...

Published: Saturday 25 December 1847
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 466 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

POOR RELIEF, EXETER

... first act, and re-enacts all tbe stringent provisions respecting giving relief in the workhouse, and iufiicting corporal punishment on paupers who violate the workhouse rules. It also excuses any person frcrn serving the office guardian who shall have reached ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1843
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1772 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Andower IJnion Committe terminated choir enquirics last week, a report, the substance of which w ill be ..

... Commissioners, who were for driving all this class of poor into the Workhouse. In the case of able-bodied men applying for relief, the Board exacted a certain amount of work done the Workhouse before they received any food—as brutal a regulation as can well ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1846
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 374 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TOTNES

... allowed any general pprmission to leave the workhouse for short periods, and forbidding the smoking of tobacco paupers without the sanction the medical officer, are in accordance with the General Workhouse Regulations the Commissioners. But the Commissioners ...

Published: Saturday 10 December 1842
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 671 | Page: 3 | Tags: none