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POOR-LAW COMMISSION

... incorporated for the purpose of workhouse management, Iand for providing new wotkhouses I where necessary, to declare their work- houses to be the common workhouses of the incorporated district, and to assign to those workhouses separate classes:of poor, though ...

POOR-LAW BILL

... had found the workhouses of the several adjacent parishes, generally incon- venient, and badly managed; and that in the workhouse of Stoke-Popes the people were not properly classed; and that there was no sick-room in the said workhouse. And this deponent ...

DISTRESS AT BIRMINGHAM

... poor in the workhouse ?? ?? 73 The ditto ditto of poor relieved weekly out of the house. was ?? 2959 In 1819 Peel's famous bill was passed, and, accordingly, in the year ending Lady- day, 1820, The average number of: poor in the. workhouse was ?? 598 The ...

LORD BROUGHAM'S PROTEST

... (num- bered xviii.) was inserted in the Poor- Laws Amendment Bill, providing that no rules be adopted obliging inmates of -workhouses to Attend religious service, contrary to their own principles; it was in the following terms: That no rules, orders, or ...

DEAD BODY BILL!

... live. Yet .the little ?? administration at Ahe Workhouse Board, declare, that the Imperial Parliament for this act are deserving the acknowledgments of the whole community. Well may the Junta at the workhouse call it the Imperial Parliament,-for the old ...

POOR-LAW LECTURER

... off in their lives. [This is not now the case.-EDITOR.] Workhouses would be better than prisons, but they would no longer be palaces for the encourage- ment of idleness. In the Liverpool workhouse the effects of proper disci- pline had been very obvious ...

NEW POOR-LAW GUARDIANS

... and joints of meat, tea, coffee, &c., added to tie Idifch, which previous directors had been in the habit of taking at the workhouse. (Hear.) This, how. ever, was not all that the economical guardians partook of-(hear)-they actually regaled them- selves ...

ENGLISHMEN, HEAR ME!

... Churches out of the Tithes and u Re-h venues.- There were, in those happy days,, no Poor- Rates,.no Ckureh-Rdtes, and no Workhouses. Acts of Parliahent of those days deelare Beef, Pork, Aftkto, and Veae, to be the coinmon food of the poorer sort of people ...

POOR-LAW BILL

... parish; and that the menaavowed that they did it, because he would not give themi relief without putting them into the workhouse ; and, that all this was proved in a court of justice; and that, though one of the men was found guilty, he was ?? to mercy ...

A BILL FOR THE AMENDMENT AND BETTER ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAWS RELATING TO THE POOR IN ENGLAND AND WALES

... said crmrnissimnera for the pur- pose of having a cormmon workhouse, or their workhouse in common, a boarri of guardians of the poor for such unions shall be constituted and chosen, and sucb workhouse or woik- houses shall be governpd, arid tie relief of ...

WORKING OF THE POOR-LAW BILL

... who havbe not tlhe fear of coroner's in- quests before their eyes, will contract for the risk of keeping extreme hunger in workhouses and absolute starvation out of them. ' We were mistaken: theY, or one of them, or some of their han- gers-on, have found ...

GRIDIRON

... effect for one moment. THE DUKE OF RICHMOND. EvmRY word that I have uttered in the House with regard to this Duke and hi& big workhouse, I will prove to be true; but I should anticipate unfairly, if I were here to publish the bill of fare, and various: othir ...