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to hand over children to any relatives or other responsible persons willing to take them on (e) the Guardians to meet in June 1779 to elect a President and to appoint 24 of their number to be Directors of the <strong>Poor</strong> (“the Directors”) (f) qualification of the Directors; appointment of treasurer, clerk and other officers; election of additional Directors (g) the Directors empowered to contract to buy or rent land on which they would build the workhouse; valuation of the land and provisions for assessment and transfer; three year time limit to build the workhouse and associated buildings (including a hospital) (h) penalty for obstructing the building work or causing damage; seven Directors to supervise the work; furnishing of the buildings; general meeting of the Guardians to be called once the building work was complete (i) the Directors and Guardians empowered to make bye-laws governing their operation; quarterly meetings of the Directors; weekly meetings of committees; the Directors empowered to pay money to relieve poor persons living outside the workhouse; arrangements about meetings (j) the Directors empowered to borrow up to £25000 upon the security of the workhouse buildings and the poor rates; the Directors empowered to raise up to £15000 upon the security of annuities, all such transactions to be properly recorded (k) the Directors empowered to assess the sums needed to service the debts incurred pursuant to their borrowing powers and to pay the expenses of providing for the poor; churchwardens and overseers of the poor authorised to raise the necessary money by rating every inhabitant in their respective areas; rates not to exceed the average of the past 7 years; appeals against rating assessments (l) churchwardens and overseers to produce accounts for the years 1771 to 1778 and to assist the Directors in the working of this Act; assistance of parish officers required; penalties for not assisting (m) procedure in event of the Directors failing to attend meetings or make any rate (n) arrangements concerning removal of poor persons between parishes; voluntary contributions; appointments of workhouse staff and clergy; penalties for embezzlement 52
(o) rewards for industrious workers; penalties for workhouse inmates’ misbehaviour; penalties for misappropriation of Corporation property; application of fines and forfeitures (p) expenses of enactment; procedure at meetings of the Directors; penalty for taking strong liquor into the workhouse; Governor’s power to execute warrants; civil procedure issues; status of Act. 5. In the event the workhouse authorised by the 1779 Act was never built. The £16000 required to erect the workhouse proved impossible to raise. Accordingly the proposed incorporation of the Guardians was also abandoned. Several parishes in the area subsequently erected their own workhouses. 6. The 1779 Act has long been obsolete. It dates back to an age when relief for the poor, and the money to pay for this, was organised on a parish basis. As indicated in the accompanying background note, the system of parish-run poor relief was abolished by the Local Government Act 1929. The poor law system was itself finally abolished by the National Assistance Act 1948. The finance for providing the income and other support previously provided by the parish is today drawn either from funds provided by central government or raised by local government from local taxation. 7. Accordingly the 1779 Act has long been obsolete and may now be repealed on that basis. Extent 8. The provisions proposed for repeal had no effect outside Suffolk. Consultation 9. HM Treasury, the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Department for Work and Pensions, Suffolk County Council and the Local Government Association have been consulted about these repeal proposals. (32-195-455) LAW/005/018/06 July 2009 53
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Statute Law Repeals: Consultation P
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Selection of repeal candidates 6. C
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POOR RELIEF REPEAL PROPOSALS CONTEN
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from funds provided by central gove
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(d) all byelaws made under the auth
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8. A workhouse was built in 1767 in
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Committees; Directors to meet their
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7. Accordingly the 1813 Act is obso
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(d) power to rectify errors in any
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(b) establishment of a corporation
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the House of Industry in the same p
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officers as if they were overseers;
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Extent 8. The provisions proposed f
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let out for employment as servants
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Justices of the Peace to act on the
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from funds provided by central gove
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(b) the poor in the house of indust
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industry, to furnish it and to keep
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Consultation 9. HM Treasury, the De
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acting if not duly qualified; Justi
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(s) churchwardens and overseers and
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(k) penalty for stealing or receivi
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7. Accordingly the 1833 Act is obso
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(e) provisions about summonses and
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5. Section 1 of the 1868 Act set ou
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Tunstead and Happing Incorporated H
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Ulverstone Union (Parish of Dalton)
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which have already been repealed. I
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Parish of Boldre Order 10. This Ord
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Parish of St Mary Abbotts, Kensingt
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Parish of St James, Westminster Ord
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