Volume 1

Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.

  • Board of guardians
Date:
1835-1847
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    all cases we deem the gradual absorption, family by family, pre- ferable to the removal of considerable numbers. ‘The expenses of these removals have, in the first instance, mostly been defrayed by the parishes from which the families have been removed. ‘These expenses have been considered as relief. The expense of removal of 113 persons from Prince’s Risborough was 1. per head. § 22. At the time of framing the regulations for the new unions, and of considering the subject of migration, we also considered the measures requisite for the diminishing any possible surplus of pauper labourers, by facilitating foreign or colonial emigration. To this end we prepared the instructions set forth in the Ap- pendix*, and we pointed out the mode in which parishes ought to proceed, under the authority of the 62nd section of the Act, to procure loans either from the Commissioners of Exchequer Bills, or from private individuals. The following table displays the very small extent to which parishes have resorted to this provision. 35.4 os m ° Bo |S oe é REE ses jag Aad .| 22 hg AE a3 82 53) 5 & Ben Sal 8 * NAME OF PARISH. COUNTY. |4£e2|%°| : To what part emigrated, . RHO S| ae ew ee 2 83| 5 BOA Ply, < | Se ee FLMDIDIONO s cee vcesss Hants ....-- | £300] 28 | Upper Canada. Ingoldesthorpe.....-. | Norfolk ..... 32 | 4 ditto, Great Ringstead....+. ditto... cree 200 | 27 ditto. Pewsey ecececececeee | Wilts......- | 130 | 2) ditto. Stalbridge.......+.++ | Dorset .....- | 100 | 23 | United States. Sandcroft Southelmham | Suffolk...... 35 | 9 | Prince Edward’s Island. Wimbish.......-.0+2 | Essex....... 80 | 22 | Upper Canada. Great Hallingbury.... | ditto....... 00 | 5 ditto. Stansted Mountfitchet. GIttO ei 2a sts 30 | 4 ditto. Renwick.....+..ee+e¢ | Cumberland 25 | 9 ditto. Aldington ...++..+e04 | Kent. ....0. 65 | 9 ditto. Chawton....+.+.+.+e- | Southampton 100 | 6 ditto. Stanton St. John...... | Oxford...... 40 | 4 ditto. MUO se vsascesasase | Sussex see.ee | -140 | 19 ditto. Wisborough Green.... Gitiow aes «5 85 | 9 ditto. Heene oe sesccccccucs ditto... see 100 | 10 ditto. : . 36 to Upper Canada, SPIPICY Fevice cers ssevi) ditto.....+ | 600 |.63 {97 to United States, Felpham eveveeseneead ditto.. @eeve 250 42 Upper Canada. Bepton ee ee ee oe rib ats py ues # EEE 13 -_-_— Torau..