An act to amend the laws relating to the removal of the poor / Jellinger C. Symons.

  • Jelinger Cookson Symons
Date:
1846
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An act to amend the laws relating to the removal of the poor / Jellinger C. Symons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the premises, and be dealt with according to law. Given under my hand and seal, at in the county (a) of this day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty No. 12. Warrant of Distress against the putative Father. ) To the constable of in the to wit. 5 county of Whereas information and complaint were, on the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty made upon oath (b) before one of her Majesty’s justices of the peace in and for the said county, (a) by of the parish of in the county (a) of single woman, that by an order made at the petty session holden in and for the division (a) of in the county of (a) on the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty by her Majesty’s justices of the peace in and for the said county (a) acting in and for the said division (a) then and there as¬ sembled of m the county (a) of was adjudged to be the putative father of a bastard child, then lately born of her body, and that in and by the said order it was ordered that the said should pay to her the said so long as she should be of sound mind, and should not be in any gaol or prison, or under sentence of transportation, or to the person who might be appointed to have the custody of the said child under the provisions of the said statute, the sum of per week for the first six weeks from the birth of the said child, and from the expiration of such six weeks the sum of per week until such child should attain the age of thirteen years, or should die, or she the said mother should marry, and the sum of ten shillings for the midwife, and the sum of for the costs iucurred in obtaining such order; and that the said had had due notice of the said order, and that the said bastard child was then living under the age of thirteen years, and that she the said mother had not been married since the said order was made, and that the payments directed to be made by the said order had not been made accord¬ ing thereto by the said and that there was then in arrear for the same the sum of being the amount of arrears for weeks payments,
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