Volume 1

The statutes in force relating to the poor laws : to Boards of Guardians, district school and asylum managers, overseers, and the Local Government Board, from 43 Eliz. c.2, to 35 & 36 Vict, c.93, together with digests of the decisions of the courts upon each statute / by William Cunningham Glen.

  • W. Cunningham Glen
Date:
1873
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Credit: The statutes in force relating to the poor laws : to Boards of Guardians, district school and asylum managers, overseers, and the Local Government Board, from 43 Eliz. c.2, to 35 & 36 Vict, c.93, together with digests of the decisions of the courts upon each statute / by William Cunningham Glen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    schedule to this Act annexed, or in any roll, list, notice, or voting paper required by this Act, shall hinder the full operation of this Act with respect to such- person, body corporate, or place, provided that the description of such person, body corpo- rate, or place be such as to be commonly understood (6). 6 & 7 WILL. IV. Chap. 12. An Act for amending an Act of the Ninth Year of the Eeign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled “ An Act for the better Regulation of Divisions in the several Counties of England and Wales.” [20th May, 1836.] “ Whebeas by an Act passed in the ninth year of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intjtuled ‘ An Act for the 9 Geo. IV. better Regulation of Divisions in the several Counties of Eng- c. 43. land and Wales,’ it is amongst other things enacted, that such divisions, when severally constituted in the manner directed by the said Act, shall be subject to no alteration or revision for the several terms of twenty-one and ten years respectively, and until further order of sessions after the expiration of such terms of twenty-one years and ten years respectively: And whereas it may be expedient that such divisions should have the same limits as unions of parishes formed under the Act of the fourth and fifth years of His present Majesty, intituled ‘An Act for 4 & 5 Will. IV the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating c. 76. to the Poor in England and Wales; ’ and for this and other reasons it may be expedient to alter such divisions within shorter periods of time than are now fixed by the herein recited Act: ” Be it therefore enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, Justices at by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and quarter ses- temporal, and Commons, in this present parliament assembled, sionsmay alter and by the authority of the same, that it shall be lawful for the thre^eTe^ar^ justices of the peace for any county, riding, or division having a from the separate commission of the peace, in any court of quarter ses- constituting sions, to alter and revise such divisions in the manner and thereof, according to the forms required by the said herein recited Act on the expiration of three years from the constituting thereof, anything in such Act contained to the contrary notwith- standing (c). II. It shall be lawful for the justices as aforesaid at such New divisions quarter sessions to make any order constituting any new division, may he con- upon due proof before them made in open court on oath, that stituted if five at the time of making the same there are at the least five justices (b) See 32 & 33 Viet. c. 55, s. 9. (c) See 9 Geo. 4, c. 43; 10 Geo. 4, c. 46; and 22 & 23 Viet. c. 65. s s 2