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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    churchwardens and overseers, or by the registering officer or secretary respectively to whom the same shall be furnished (a). XLIX. Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall Registers of affect the registration of baptisms or burials as now by law ^aptisms and established, or the right of any officiating minister to receive kept^s^ the fees now usually paid for the performance or registration of heretofore, any baptism, burial, or marriage. L. The said registrar general shall, within three calendar Registrar- months after his appointment to such office, furnish to the re- spective guardians of every union, parish, or place, printed notices, which the said guardians shall, as soon as conveniently of unions, &c. may be after the receipt thereof, cause to be fixed or placed on specifying the outside of the several church and chapel doors, or other public and conspicuous buildings or places, within their respec- ^ ^rties^^^ is^ tive unions, parishes, or places, and which said notices shall tering. ^ specify the several acts required to be done by persons who may be desirous of solemnizing marriage, or of registering the birth of any child or the death of any person, under the pro- visions of this Act. 6 & 7 WILL. IV. Chap. 96. [19th August, 1836.] An Act to regulate Parochial Assessments (b). “ Wheeeas it is desirable to establish one uniform mode of rating for the relief of the poor throughout England and Wales, and to lessen the cost of appeal against an unfair rate: Be it enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after such period, not being earlier than the twenty-first day of March next after the passing ol this Act, as the poor law commissioners shall by ^^lue of the any order under their seal of office direct, no rate (c), for the property, relief of the poor in England and Wales shall be allowed by any justices, or be of any force, which shall not be made upon an estimate of the net annual value of the several hereditaments rated thereunto ; that is to say,’ of the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenant’s rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent- charge, if any, and deducting therefrom ^the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent (d) ; Proviso, provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be con- (a) See 1 Viet. c. 22, s. 25; and (d) See 3 & 4 Viet. e. 89; and as 21 & 22 Viet. e. 25, s. 6. regards the metropolis, 32 & 33 Viet. (5) See 5 & 6 Viet. e. 57, s. 18. e. 67, s. 52, and Seh. 3. (c) See 43 Eliz. e. 2, s. 1.