Andover Union : extracts from the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons and an epitome of the evidence on the cases of Mr. Parker and Mr. Day, late Assistant Poor Law Commissioners.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Andover Union.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Andover Union : extracts from the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons and an epitome of the evidence on the cases of Mr. Parker and Mr. Day, late Assistant Poor Law Commissioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Law Amendment Act, amongst whom he was anxious himself to rank. He had always been a warm and con¬ sistent supporter of that Act, and he wished it to be understood that the present motion was not levelled against the law, but against the Commissioners, who, by their conduct, perilled its existence, [hear, hear, hear]. Whatever the result of the present motion might be, he was convinced that every fair and impartial man would feel that Mr. Day had been treated with great injustice by the Poor Law Commissioners ; and he believed that from Mr. Day’s case, and Mr. Parker’s case, the public would draw the inference, that no Assistant Commissioner, that no subordinate in that office was at present safe from the arbitrary mode in which the Poor Law Commissioners exercised their power,-—whilst, at the same time, the character and the efficiency of the Poor Law were greatly imperilled, [hear, hear.]—The Times, April 22, 1846.