Dispensation, what, and its effect upon a settlement by hiring
and service, 481, &c.
Disputable title to estate, what effect it has upon the settle-
ment, 642.
Dissent to a marriage, its effect in preventing banns from
being published, 422, 423.
Dissenters' chapels, marriages in, 424.
Dissenting ministers, exempt from serving the office of over-
seer, 34.
Dissolution of a contract of hiring, what, and its effect upon a
settlement by hiring and service, 481, &c.
Dissolution of an union, 8.
Distress for poor-rate, 268 ; even although appeal be pending,
279; complaint, 275, and form of it, 269; form of it,
when against several, 270;-summons, 270, and form
of it, 270;-warrant of distress, 272, and form of it, 269;
form of it against several, 273, and how if refused, 275;
no action against the justices if issued, 276; costs, 276;
commitment in default of distress, 272, and form of it,
277; tender of rate and costs, 279; where distress may
be levied, 281; appeal against it, 252, 281.
Distress for recovery of money, given as relief by way of loan,
271, and form of the warrant, 377.
Districts for auditing accounts, 132. See " Auditing.”
District boards for asylums for the houseless poor, 392, 399,
&c. See "Asylums.”
District boards for schools for poor children, 397, 399, &c.
See "Schools."
Docks, in what cases, and how rateable, 163, 231; when
rateable, where the dues are applicable to particular pur-
poses, 165.
Dower, tenant in, in what cases she may gain a settlement by
estate, 629.
Drainage, allowance for, in assessing property to the poor
rate, 244.
Drunkenness of paupers, in a workhouse, punishment, 320, 323.
Duties of churchwardens and overseers, 43, 115; of assis-
tant overseer, 57;-of collectors, 61;-of guardians,
20;-of clerk to the guardians, 73, 77;-of treasurer,
79;-of relieving officer, 80;—of chaplain, 91;-of master
of the workhouse, 92;-of matron of the workhouse,
98;-of the medical officer engaged by the guardians,
&c., 89, 91;-of schoolmaster and schoolmistress, 99;—
of nurse, 100;-of porter, 100;—of superintendent of
out-door labour, 101;-of other paid officers, may be
defined by the commissioners, 65;-of the members of
select vestries, 389.
Dues on tonnage.
66
See Canals," "Navigable Rivers."
Duties of masters of parish apprentices, 536.
Education of children in the workhouse, 316, 99: rules
of the commissioners upon the subject, 5, 99; district
boards for schools for them, 397, 399.
Election of guardians, 13 :—of chairman and vice-chairman
of the board of guardians, 21.
Election of select vestry, 387.
Electric Telegraph Company rateable, 160.
Emancipation, 435; where the child resides with the parent,
435; where not, 436, 437, 442.
Embezzlement by overseers or paid officers, penalty, 54, 72.
Emergency, sudden, relief to be given to persons in case of,
362, 368, 333; what shall amount to such an emer-
gency, 120.
Emigration, provisions for raising money for the purposes of,
333; and the exchequer bill loan commission may advance
the money, on security of the rates, 301.-Forms, 355,
360.-Conditions on which emigration is sanctioned, 360.
Employment of the poor, 364; in workhouses, 318, 295;
they may be employed in cultivating land, 346. Con-
tracts with others for employing them, 352, 295.
Engines, &c., of mines (other than coal mines), not rateable,
208.
Enlarging churchyards, authority of the guardians to con-
tribute to it, 27.
Enlarging workhouses, 8, 296, 297, 298.
Enlisting and leaving his parents, when an emancipation, 437.
Enquiry into parochial property, by the commissioners, 9.
Entire rate for two properties, if bad in part, is bad for the
whole, 245.
Entry of appeal against an order of removal, 770; entry and
trial at the first sessions, 770; entry at the first, and trial
at the second, 771; entry and trial at the second sessions,
772; appeal cannot be entered by respondents, 845.
Entry on record, of award upon arbitration of matter of
appeal, 850.
Equality of poor-rate, 243; if any person be overrated in
comparison with any other person in the rate, he may
appeal, 243, 244.
Equitable estates confer a settlement, 628, 645; but a mere
equitable right is not sufficient, 656.
Escheats, profits arising from, not rateable, 152.
Estate, settlement by, 625. See "Settlement;" how proved,
724; how stated in grounds of appeal, 794.
Estate, certificate-man may gain a settlement by it, 678.
Estate, persons having, in the parish, not removable, 684,
Evidence,-rules and orders of the poor-law commissioners,
how proved, 7.
Evidence in an appeal against an order of removal, 806;
evidence generally, 806; declarations of rated inhabi-
tants, 806; leases or other written instruments, 808;
examinations, 810. Certificates, 814. Relief, 817, 821.
Order of removal unappealed against, 822; order ap-
pealed against and confirmed, 827; order appealed
against and quashed, 830. Wrongly receiving or refusing
evidence by the sessions will not be rectified by the court
of Queen's Bench, 813.
Evidence necessary to obtain an order of removal, 719.
Examination of witnesses deceased, not evidence, except of
soldiers relating to their settlement, 810, 811.
Examination of accounts of the overseers, 109; officers ap-
pointed for the purpose, 64, 65, 124, 143.
Examination of accounts by guardians, 24.
Examination of persons on oath by the commissioners, 9; by
the inspectors, 11.
Examination of a pauper, before removal, 696; by whom
taken, 715; summons or warrant to bring up the pauper,
716; the examination, 719; cannot now be objected to
on appeal, 719; must prove a residence of the pauper,
719; a chargeability, 720, and a settlement, 720-726.
Settlement how proved by it, 720;-settlement by birth,
721, by hiring and service, 721, by apprenticeship, 722,
by renting a tenement, 723, 724, by estate, 724, by pay-
ment of rates, 724, by serving office, 725;-of derivative
settlements by marriage, 725, by parentage, 726;-of
admission of settlement by relief, 726, or former order
unappealed against, 726, former order appealed against
and confirmed, 726; or quashed, 707. Form of the ex-
aminations, 727; copy of them how obtained, 727.
Examination of Irish or Scotch paupers previously to being
passed, 707; form of it, 708.
Exceptive hiring, 465; what, 465; exception of some days in
the year, 465, or of some hours in the day, 467; excep-
tions by custom of the country, or custom of trade, 470.
Exchequer bill loan commissioners may lend sums on security
of the rates, for the purpose of building workhouses or
enabling the poor to emigrate, 301.
Excise, officers of, exempt from serving the office of over-
seer, 34.
Excuse from payment of rates, in what cases, 147, 156, 116.
Execution of indenture of apprenticeship, how, in ordinary
cases, 510; how, in cases of parish apprentices, 522, 538;
how, execution of assignment of indenture, in case of
marish apprentices, 532.
Executor, service of the remaining part of the year with, after
master's death, when sufficient to gain a settlement, 481.
Executor, estate of, where it confers a settlement, 637, 658.
Executor of deceased officer, to account before district auditor,
137.
Exemption of land from poor rate, by statute, how construed,
184.
Ex officio guardians, justices are, 20, 103.
Exorbitant charges, not to be allowed in overseers' accounts,
120.
Expenses of election of guardians, how provided for, 19.
Expenses of litigating settlements, to be allowed in overseers'
accounts, 111.
Expenses of conveying lunatics to the asylum, and keeping
them there, how paid, 340.
Expenses of relieving and removing certificate-men, by whom
to be paid, and how recovered, 694.
Expenses of removing Irish or Scotch paupers, by whom and
how paid, 710.
Expenses of workhouse, how paid, 343, 344, 385.
Express hiring for a year, 454 :—with a relation, 460, or at
weekly wages, 462, sufficient to gain a settlement.
Express exception, in a hiring, necessary to make it an excep-
tive hiring, 465, 469, 470.
Extraordinary audit by district auditor, in what cases, 135.
Extraordinary meeting of guardians, how summoned, 22.
Extra-parochial place, children born in, where settled, 412,
409, 415; removal of pauper to, bad, 763.
Factory, British, abroad, marriages solemnized there, valid,
Fairs, tolls of, formerly a tenement, by which a settlement
might be acquired, 581.
Families of seamen, in the merchant service, how relieved, 381.
Family of pauper, how to be described in an order of removal,
737; if any one of them be so ill as not to be removable
with safety, order to be suspended as to all, 747.
Farmer of tithes, rateable for them, 213.
Father compellable to support his children, 285; and relief
given to the latter, shall be considered as given to the
former, 289.
Feast day to the same feast day in the following year, deemed
a year, in settlement by hiring and service, 456. See 476.
Fee simple, or fee tail, estate in, where it confers a settlement,
Felony, a convict for, his family may derive a settlement from
him, 433; such convicts, in what cases removable, as if
actually chargeable, 695, 720.
Fermented liquors, not to be used in workhouses, 319; bring-
ing them in, penalty, 319; master of workhouse doing
so, or selling them, &c., penalty, 320.
Ferry, in what cases rateable, 226, 227; in what cases formerly
a tenement, by which a settlement might be gained, 520.
Filiation, order of, 293.
Fine arts, buildings for the purposes of, when not rateable, 198.
Fines payable to a lord of a manor, not rateable, 152.
Fish, tithe of, rateable, 213.
Fishery, private right of, in what cases rateable, 212; in what
cases a tenement, by which a settlement could formerly
be acquired, 581.
Five years' residence in parish, when it renders paupers irre-
movable, 696, if there be no break in the residence by
removal, 698, imprisonment, 703, or otherwise, 698,
701. Time during which party is a prisoner, 703, or on
duty as a soldier, marine or sailor, 703, or as in-pensioner
in Greenwich or Chelsea hospital, 620, or in a lunatic
asylum, 703, or as patient in a hospital, 704, or receiving
relief from any parish, 704, not to be reckoned in the
five years, 702, 705. Party not to acquire settlement in
the parish during the irremovability, 707.
Five years' residence, not necessary to negative it by evidence
on obtaining order of removal, 725.
Flags, growing in ponds, right to cut and take, a tenement by
which a settlement might formerly be acquired, 581.
Fleet prison, prisoners in, how formerly relieved, 367; prison
now abolished, 367.
Floating pier, when rateable, 160; floating dock, when rate-
able, 161.
Fog or aftergrass, settlement by renting, 575.
Forbidding banns, by whom, and its effects, 423; forbidding
the issuing of the certificate of the registrar of marriages,
423.
Forests of the crown, parts of, may be inclosed for the poor,
in what cases, 347.
Forest of Alice Holt, no settlement by hiring and service in,
446, or residing in any house in, 507, 595.
Foreigners, may gain a settlement in England, 613; even by
renting a tenement, 443, 593.
Foreign marriages, when deemed valid here, 420, 427.
Form of notice and grounds of appeal, against an order of
removal, 799.
Form of poor-rate, 234, 236.
Former order unappealed against, how proved, 726, and effect
of it, 822; how stated in grounds of appeal, 799, 838;
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