Public welfare - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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A letter to the citizens of Glasgow, containing a short view of the management of the poors funds, under the administration of the General Session; Together with An Account of the Age, Family, Earning, and Provision made for each Pensioner on the Funds of the particular Sessions, by the Towns Hospital, Trades, Boxes, or other Charities, as well as by the Sessions. By a citizen of Glasgow
Porteous, William, 1735-1812.Date: [1783]- E-books
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A sentimental history of chimney sweepers , in London & Westminster. Shewing the necessity of putting them under regulations, to prevent the grossest inhumanity to the climbing boys. With a letter to a London clergyman on Sunday schools. Calculated for the preservation of the children of the poor. By Jonas Hanway, Esq.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: 1785- E-books
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Plan to amend and enforce the act of 23 Geo. III. for the better relief and employment of the poor; and for substituting new resources for their support, which may gradually reduce the Poor's Rates, and, in time, render that Burthen easier to the Public.
Gilbert, Thomas, 1719 or 20-1798.Date: 1783]- E-books
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Schedule. Questions, to which, by direction of an act, passed in the sixteenth year of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled, "An act for obliging the overseers of the poor, within the several parishes and places within that part of Great Britain called England, to make returns, upon oath, to certain questions, specified in the act, relative to the state of their poor; and to authorize and require the justices of the peace, within their respective divisions and jurisdictions, in the several counties and cities in England and Wales, to take such returns upon oath, and to cause them to be transmitted to the clerk of the parliaments;" answers are to be returned by the overseers of the poor of every parish, township, and place, in wrinting, upon oath, and signed by them; for which purpose the said overseers are to attend the justices of the peace, within their respective jurisdictions, at such times and places as they shall appoint on pain of forfeiting, for every default or neglect, a sum not exceeding five pounds, nor less than forty shillings
Great BritainDate: [1776]- E-books
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A Short and accurate statement of the late disputes between the Board of Control and the East-India Company, on the subject of sending four of His Majesty's regiments to India
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]