The consolidated and other orders of the Poor Law Commissioners and the Poor Law Board : together with the general orders relating to poor law accounts the statutes relating to the orders, audit of accounts, appeals, and the payment of parish debts with explanatory notes elucidating the orders and the decisions thereon tables of statutes, cases, and index / by William Cunningham Glen.

  • W. Cunningham Glen
Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The consolidated and other orders of the Poor Law Commissioners and the Poor Law Board : together with the general orders relating to poor law accounts the statutes relating to the orders, audit of accounts, appeals, and the payment of parish debts with explanatory notes elucidating the orders and the decisions thereon tables of statutes, cases, and index / by William Cunningham Glen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a Guardian, or refuse, or become incapable, to act as Chairman or Vice-Chairman, before the expiration of the term of office, the Guardians shall, within one month after the occurrence of the vacancy, refusal, or incapacity, elect some other Guardian to be Chairman or Vice-Chairman, as the case may be. Art. 32.—Whereas no act of any meeting of the Guar- dians will be valid unless three Guardians be present and concur therein; if three Guardians be not present at any meeting, the Clerk shall make an entry of that fact in the minute-book, and the time for holding such meeting shall be deemed to have expired as soon as the said entry shall have been made. But one hour at least shall be allowed to elapse from the time fixed for the commencement of the meeting, before such entry shall be made (p). Art. 33.—If three or four or more Guardians be present at any ordinary meeting, such three, or the majority of such four or more Guardians, may adjourn the same to the day of the next ordinary meeting, or to some other day previous to the next ordinary meeting. Art. 34.—An extraordinary meeting of the Guardians may be summoned to be held at any time, upon the re- quisition of any two Guardians, addressed to the Clerk. Every such requisition shall be made in writing, in the Form (F.) hereunto annexed, and no business other than the business specified in the said requisition shall be transacted at such extraordinary meeting. (p) The 4 & 5 Wm. IY. c. 76, s. 38, provides that, “except where otherwise ordered by the Poor Law Commissioners, and also except for the purpose of consenting to the dissolution or alteration of any Union, or any addition thereto, or to the form- ation of any Union for the purposes of settlement or rating,—no ex officio or other Guardian of any such Board as aforesaid [Board of Guardians], shall have power to act in virtue of such office except as a member, and at a meeting of such Board.” And further, that “ No act of any such meeting [of a Board of Guardians] shall be valid unless three members shall be present and concur therein.” If the meeting consist of only three Guardians, no act can bo done by it if the Guardians arc not unanimous. It may here bo added, that it is illegal to pay any Guardian of the Poor out of any parish rate or fund for attend- ing to the discharge of his duty as Guardian.