Rules and orders for relieving and employing the poor of the township of Leeds : and for the government of the workhouse there.

An act for better regulating the poor : maintaining a nightly watch, lighting, paving, and cleansing the streets, rows, and passages, providing fire-engines and firemen, and regulating the hackney-coachmen, chairmen, carmen, and porters, within the city of Chester.

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Rules and orders for relieving and employing the poor of the township of Leeds : and for the government of the workhouse there.

An act for better regulating the poor : maintaining a nightly watch, lighting, paving, and cleansing the streets, rows, and passages, providing fire-engines and firemen, and regulating the hackney-coachmen, chairmen, carmen, and porters, within the city of Chester.