Poor Relief - Law Commission

(h) Guardians to appoint a Secretary, Treasurer and other officers; all officers
appointed by the Guardians could be removed by the Guardians upon a
just and reasonable cause (Sections 32 - 33)
(i) purchase of all materials necessary for the maintenance and employment
of the poor and to maintain the House of Industry; Guardians authorised
to erect and fit out buildings, and borrow for the purpose against the
security of the poor rates (Sections 34 – 35)
(j) authority to add additional parishes or townships to the existing union
provided they are no more than 20 miles from the House of Industry;
Guardians of the existing union to draw up agreements with the
Guardians of the places wishing to join the union; newly united parishes to
contribute poor rates to the expenses of the corporation in proportion to
the number of poor it expected to send to the House of Industry;
churchwardens of the joining parishes to provide the Guardians with
records of the poor rates charged in the Parish; Guardians empowered to
dismiss any of the newly-joined parishes from the union; notice of
admission of parishes (Sections 36 – 41)
(k) Guardians empowered to make byelaws for the better execution of their
functions; penalties for breach of byelaws; power to alter and amend
byelaws; byleaws to be made only at monthly meetings; records to be
kept of the byelaws made (Sections 42 – 44)
(l) churchwardens of the incorporated parishes to collect the poor rates; the
Guardians not required to accommodate the insane in the House of
Industry or persons afflicted with contagious disorders, such persons to
be removed from the House of Industry and provided for separately
(Sections 45 – 47)
(m) Guardians empowered to set the poor to work; prohibition on strong liquor
in the workhouse; penalty for bringing liquor into the workhouse;
Guardians empowered to punish the misbehaving poor in the House of
Industry; power to reward the industrious poor; punishing officers of the
House of Industry for theft from the Guardians (Sections 48 – 52)
(n) arrangements for rating low value tenanted properties (Section 53)
(o) the House of Industry and all its goods and chattels to be vested in the
Guardians; punishment for damaging the property of the Guardians; all
goods belonging to the Guardians to be marked as such; penalty for
obliterating or defacing the mark; united parishes to have an interest in
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