to the award or umpirage of such person or persons; and thereupon such and the like proceedings in all respects shall and may be taken with regard to submissions under this Act, and to enforcing awards or umpirages thereupon, and to setting aside the same, as are authorized by the said Act of King William the Third, with regard to the cases therein provided for; and every award or umpirage duly made under this Act shall be as binding and effectual to all intents as if the same had been a regular judgment of the said court of general or quarter sessions, and shall and may, on the application of either party, be enrolled among the records of the said court of sessions" (a).

Also, "it shall be lawful for any court of general or quarter sessions of the peace before which any appeal (except against a summary conviction or an order in bastardy, or any proceeding under or by virtue of any of the statutes relating to her Majesty's revenue of excise or customs, stamps, taxes, or post office,) shall be brought, to order, with consent of the parties or their attornies, that the matter or matters of such appeal be referred to arbitration to such person or persons and in such manner and on such terms as the said court shall think reasonable and proper; and such order may be made a rule of the court of Queen's Bench, on the application of either party; and the award of the arbitrator or arbitrators, or umpirage of the umpire, may, on motion by either party at the sessions next or next but one after such award or umpirage shall have been finally made and published, or after the decision of the court of Queen's Bench on any motion for setting aside the same, be entered as the judgment of the court of general or quarter sessions in the appeal, and shall be as binding and effectual to all intents as if given by the said court: provided always, that the court of Queen's Bench may, if it think fit, on application within the term next after the making and publication of such award or umpirage, either refer the case back again to the same arbitrator, arbitrators, or umpire, or wholly set aside the award or umpirage already made, and may in the latter event order the court of general or quarter sessions to enter continuances and hear the appeal " (b).

And "if upon any reference to arbitration under this Act it shall be made to appear to the court of Queen's Bench that, either from the death of the arbitrator or arbitrators or umpire, or from any other cause, it has become impossible that an award or umpirage can be made, it shall be lawful for the said court to order the court of general or quarter sessions of the peace to enter continuances and hear the appeal " (c).

(a) 12 & 13 Vict. c. 45, s. 12. (b) Id. s. 13.

(c) 12 & 13 Vict. c. 45, s. 14.

"And the several provisions relating to arbitrations contained in stat. 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 42, shall be deemed and taken to be applicable to arbitrations under this Act; and in every such arbitration the arbitrator or arbitrators or umpire shall have the same powers of amendment which the court of general or quarter sessions of the peace would have had on the trial of the appeal" (d).

And lastly, by stat. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 105, s. 12, the "guardians of any two unions or parishes, or the guardians of a union and the guardians of a parish, or the guardians of a union or parish and the overseers of any parish, or the overseers of any two parishes, between whom any question affecting the settlement, removal, or chargeability of any poor person shall arise, may, if they think fit so to do, by agreement in writing, executed in respect of any guardians by sealing with their common seal, and in respect of overseers by the signatures of a majority of them, submit such question to the poor law board for their decision; and the said board may, if they see fit, entertain such question, and by an order under their seal determine the same; and every such order shall be in all courts and for all purposes final and conclusive, between the parties submitting such question, as to the question therein determined" (e).

(d) 12 & 13 Vict. c. 45, s. 15.

(e) 14 & 15 Vict. c. 105, s. 12.

INDEX.

A.

Abandonment of an order of removal, in what cases, when

and how, 745; before or after appeal entered, 745;
costs, 746, and remedy for them, 746; form of the
notice, 746:-of a rate, cannot be, after it has been al-
lowed and published, 259.

338;

Abandonment of appeal against an order of removal, 801.
Able-bodied poor, relief to them, 335; the poor-law commis-
sioners may regulate the relief to be given to them, 335;
regulations of the commissioners upon the subject, 336,
in what cases relief may be given to them by way
of loan, 371.
Absence of a yearly servant, with leave, when a dispensation
only, and not a dissolution of the contract, 485; absence
of such servant without leave, in what cases a dispensa-
tion, in what a dissolution, 487.

Absence of person who has resided five years in a parish, when
a break in the residence, 702.

Abuse of pauper, by the master of a workhouse, penalty,
326, 327.

Accident, if the cause of becoming chargeable, in what cases
the party must be relieved as casual poor, and cannot be
removed, 339, 692, unless it be such as to produce per-
manent disability, 693; not necessary to negative it in
the order of removal, 743, 693, or by evidence in obtain-
ing the order, 726; in what cases relieved, if the party
belong to the parish, 336. Relief, to what parish, &c.
chargeable, 693.

Accounts relating to the management of the poor, the com-
missioners may make rules concerning, 5; their power
to enforce the production of them, 9; duty of the auditor
with respect to them, 124, &c.

Accounts of overseers, 108; how to be examined and allowed,
by the auditor, 124; and by the justices, 109, 125; and

how, 109-122; and in what form, 108; appeal against
the allowance of their accounts by justices, 123; and
against the disallowance of their accounts, 123. Districts
for auditing the accounts, 132. See “Auditing.”
Accounts of paid officers, in what cases, 71.

Accounts of relieving officers, 82; how examined by auditor,
125, 82.

Accounts of the treasurers of unions, 79, 80.

Actions by guardians, how property described therein, 19;-
against guardians, 25, 26;—against justices, for a dis-
tress for a poor-rate, 276;-by overseers of the poor,
49; against overseers, 51.

Adjournment of an appeal, when as of course, 771, 255;
when in the discretion of the court, 774, 775, 802.
Adjourned sessions, entry of appeal at, 255.

Adjournment, sessions holden at different places by, grounds
of appeal to be served at what time, 788.
Adjournment of a meeting of guardians, 22.

Adjudication in an order of removal, what necessary, 740.
Administrator, in what case he gains a settlement by estate,

637; though bought for a sum under 301. by his intes-
tate, 658.

Admissions in appeals, what implied from the grounds of
appeal, 792, 804.

Admission of paupers into a workhouse, rules relating to, 309,
311; order for, 24.

Advances by overseers, 112, how to be repaid, 112, 115; ad-
vances by them to paupers, by way of loan, 371.

Aftermath, rateable to the poor, 210; formerly a tenement by
which a person could gain a settlement, 575.

Aged persons, how relieved in the workhouse, 302;-out of
the workhouse, 103, 328.

Ages of children, when to be stated in an order of removal,
737.

Agreement in writing, when to be produced and proved, 591,
606.

Aid, rate in, 247; upon whom, 248: by whom made, 247.
Aldermen of London exempt from office of overseer, 34.
Aletaster, an office by which a settlement might formerly be
gained, 673.

Alice Holt Forest, in what cases no settlement can be gained
in, by hiring and service, 446, 507; or by renting a tene-
ment, &c. 595.

Alien may gain a settlement, 443; if an alien amy, 594.
Allotment for the poor, upon inclosures, how let to the poor,
349.

Allotment in lieu of tithe, rateable, 213, 214.

Allowance of accounts of overseers, 124, 106; how, 109;
form of it, 107; appeal against it, 123.