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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    Penalties for promoting marriage of a mother of a bastard, improperly misapplying monies, or maltreating a bastard child. Existing orders, &c. not to be affected. Orders made before I4ih of August, 1334, to cease on 1st January, 1849. Orders made by justices acting in two adjoining counties to be valid although not made in the county in which the parish is situate. in pursuance of sucli application sliall be made to some person to be from time to time appointed by tbe justices as herein-before provided, and on condition that such bastard child shall cease to be chargeable to such parish or union. VIII. And be it enacted, That if any officer of a union, parish or place endeavour to induce any person to contract a marriage by threat or promise respecting any application to be made or any order to be enforced with respect to the maintenance of any bastard child, such officer shall be guilty of a misdemeanor (a), and every person having the custody of any bastard child, under any order of justices, as herein¬ before provided, who may misapply monies paid by the pu¬ tative father for the support of such child, or may with¬ hold proper nourishment from such child, or otherwise abuse and maltreat such child, shall, on conviction before any two justices, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding ten pounds. IX. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall affect the validity of any orders for the mainten¬ ance of a bastard child made by justices in quarter or petty sessions before the passing of this act; but no such order made before the fourteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, shall be in force after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and that all proceedings actually pending before justices in quarter sessions or petty sessions at the time of the passing of this act may be continued, and orders made therein in the same manner as if this act had not been passed. X. And whereas various unions established under the authority of the said recited act are situate partly in one county, riding, or division, and partly in an adjoining county, riding, or division : and whereas doubts have been entertained whether any justice of the peace acting under two commissions for different counties, ridings, or divisions, can legally make orders in bastardy when acting in petty sessions within the limits of one of such commissions, for such parts of such unions as are situate within the limits of the other of such commissions : and whereas it is expedient to remove all such doubts with regard to orders which have before the passing of this act been made under such circum¬ stances ; be it therefore enacted, That all orders in bastardy which have been made by any justices of the peace acting as such under two commissions for any two adjoining counties, ridings, or divisions, shall, although not made within the county, riding, or division in which the parish interested in the order, or any part thereof, is situate, be as valid, good, and effectual in the law, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been made within such county, riding, or division. (a) Punishment, fine or imprisonment.
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