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Page 892
... pound . In 1880 , when the ratable value amounted to £ 133,769,875 ( $ 649,121,592.50 ) , the amount actually expended in the relief of the poor was equivalent to 1s . 2.4d . in the pound . All classes of the inhabitants occupying ...
... pound . In 1880 , when the ratable value amounted to £ 133,769,875 ( $ 649,121,592.50 ) , the amount actually expended in the relief of the poor was equivalent to 1s . 2.4d . in the pound . All classes of the inhabitants occupying ...
Page 893
... pound . Therefore , really the taxes that a workingman is called on to bear are more of a local than imperial character . He has to pay local board of health rate , borough rate , and poor rate , amounting altogether to about 68. , or ...
... pound . Therefore , really the taxes that a workingman is called on to bear are more of a local than imperial character . He has to pay local board of health rate , borough rate , and poor rate , amounting altogether to about 68. , or ...
Page 914
... pounds , average . When working by the ton , work alternate weeks , day and night , twelve hours per turn . Meltermen ... pound . Milk is plentiful . Butter and cheese at New- port prices . 3. In some branches wages are higher than in ...
... pounds , average . When working by the ton , work alternate weeks , day and night , twelve hours per turn . Meltermen ... pound . Milk is plentiful . Butter and cheese at New- port prices . 3. In some branches wages are higher than in ...
Page 915
... pounds , shillings , and pence , and can go where they like and do what they like with their money . 9. Co - operative ... pound that is earned . 12. No political restriction whatever . The work - people take what side they like . But as ...
... pounds , shillings , and pence , and can go where they like and do what they like with their money . 9. Co - operative ... pound that is earned . 12. No political restriction whatever . The work - people take what side they like . But as ...
Page 922
... pounds ) Cheesio Nice Potatoos . Broad Bacon $ 0.20 60 20 45 24 24 24 24 70 Treacle ( for children ) Coffee School fees . 04 Wed- The children old enough to go to school were sent to school irregu- larly . Although clean , they were ...
... pounds ) Cheesio Nice Potatoos . Broad Bacon $ 0.20 60 20 45 24 24 24 24 70 Treacle ( for children ) Coffee School fees . 04 Wed- The children old enough to go to school were sent to school irregu- larly . Although clean , they were ...
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Popular passages
Page 1710 - Under sub-section one of section one, unless the defect therein mentioned arose from, or had not been discovered or remedied owing to the negligence of the employer, or of some person in the service of the employer, and entrusted by him with the duty of seeing that the ways, works, machinery, or plant were in proper condition.
Page 974 - The amount of compensation recoverable under this Act shall not exceed such sum as may be found to be equivalent to the estimated earnings, during the three years preceding the injury, of a person in the same grade employed during those years in the like employment and in the district in which the workman is employed at the time of the injury.
Page 1700 - Any exception, exemption, proviso, excuse, or qualification, whether it does or not accompany the description of the offence in this Act, may be proved by the defendant, but need not be specified or negatived...
Page 1709 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer to whose orders or directions the workman at the time of the injury was bound to conform, and did conform...
Page 974 - ... the workman, or in case the injury results in death, the legal personal representatives of the workman, and any person entitled in case of death, shall have the same right of compensation and remedies against the employer as if the workman had not been a workman of nor in the service of the employer nor engaged in his work.
Page 1710 - ... an employee, or his legal representative, shall not be entitled under this article to any right of compensation or remedy against the employer in any case where such employee knew of the defect or negligence which caused the injury and failed, within a reasonable time, to give, or cause to be given, information thereof to the employer...
Page 1697 - ... if served by post, shall be deemed to have been served at the time when a letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary...
Page 1702 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled, " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders," inclusive of any Acts amending the same.
Page 1693 - Where persons are employed at home, that is to say, in a private house, room, or place which, though used as a dwelling, is by reason of the work carried on there a factory or workshop within the meaning of this act, and in which neither steam, water, nor other mechanical power is used in aid of the manufacturing process carried on there, and in which the only persons employed are members of the same family dwelling there...
Page 1685 - ... shall be renewed once at least in every seven years, and shall be washed with hot water and soap once at least in every six months ; where limewashed the limewashing shall be renewed once at least in every six months. A bakehouse in which there is any contravention of this section shall be deemed not to be kept in conformity with this Act.