former order appealed against and confirmed, how proved,
726, and effect of it, 827; how stated in grounds of ap-
peal, 799; former order appealed against and quashed,
how proved, 726, and effect of it, 830; how stated in
grounds of appeal, 799.
Forty days' residence in a parish, how far necessary to a set-
tlement there, 405, 500, 604, 549, 595, 596, 608, 617,
622, 647, 666; what, a residence, 551, 595.
Foundling, relief of, in unions, chargeable to the common
fund, 340, 384.
Foundling hospital, no servant or nurse in, to gain a settle-
ment by their service, 446.
Fraud, its effect upon a settlement-by hiring and service,
497, 457;-by apprenticeship, 529;-by renting a tene-
ment, 600, 617;-by estate, 651;-by estate bought by
the party, 659. But it must be found by the sessions,
otherwise the court will not notice it, 659, 601, 608;
and even if found, if they also find the facts from which
they infer it, the court will judge from the facts, and not
from the finding, 652.
Fraud, children born in a strange parish by, its effects, 414.
Fraud, marriage obtained by, does not affect the settlement,
429.
Fraud, persons convicted of, not to hold a parish office, 65.
Freehold estate, settlement by, 625. Freeholds cannot be
coupled with leaseholds, to make the requisite amount
in settlement by renting a tenement, 587.
Frivolous grounds of appeal against a rate, 262; against an
order of removal, 789, 846.
Frivolous grounds of removal, 846.
Furnishing goods, &c., to the poor, for their own profit, by
overseers, 54; or paid officers, 71.
Gaol, buildings belonging to, not rateable, 192, 193.
Gaol, prisoners for debt in, how relieved, 366.
Gas works, rateable to the poor, 178; in what parish, 178, 232.
Gatekeeper to a turnpike road or navigation, not to gain a
settlement by residing in the toll-house, 594.
General indefinite hiring, deemed a hiring for a year, 457.
General rules of the poor-law commissioners, 6.
General sessions, as distinguished from quarter sessions, 253.
General traverse, 792; proof under, 837.
Giving up the indenture to an apprentice, effect of, in ordinary
cases, 566; in cases of parish apprentices, 567.
Glebe lands, how rated, 146.
Goods for the relief of the poor, overseers to account for, 108,
110; relief of the poor in goods, 329, 333.
Goods of the parish, inventory of, to be made by overseers, 47.
Governor of the workhouse, 92; his duties, 92, 98; deemed
a" paid officer" within stat. 4 & 5 W. 4, c. 76, p. 64, n. ;
how controlled by the visitors of the workhouse, 303;
what punishments he may inflict, 324; what he may not,
325, 327. The office not one by which a settlement could
be acquired, 674.
Grandfather and grandmother, liable to support the grand-
children, and entitled to be supported by them, 285, 287.
Grant of part of the waste, in what cases not an estate by
which a settlement may be acquired, 645.
Greenwich hospital, residence in, as in-pensioner, not to be
reckoned in a five years' residence, 703.
Greenwich pensioner. See " Pensioner.”
Grounds of appeal, in an appeal against a poor-rate, 256; no
other objection can be made at the trial, 256, 257, 261;
and in what cases no objection can be made to the grounds,
261; how, if frivolous or vexatious, 262.
Grounds of appeal against an order of removal, statement of,
783; must state all the facts necessary, 784; must state
them with certainty, 784; by whom signed, 785; when
to be sent, 787; and to whom, 788; if frivolous or vex-
atious, costs, 789; defects in how far objectionable, 789.
Grounds of appeal, in such a case, how framed, 789:—
as to the appellants' objections, 790:-as to traverses of
the respondents' grounds of removal, 792;—as to the
irremovability of pauper, 793;-as to the statement of
a subsequent settlement, 794, by birth, 794, by hiring
and service, 795, by apprenticeship, 796, by renting a
tenement, 796, by estate, 797, by payment of rates, 797,
by serving office, 798, by marriage, 798, by parentage,
798, by relief, 798, former order unappealed against,
790, or appealed against and confirmed or quashed, 790.
Form of notice and grounds of such appeal, 790.
Grounds of removal, 757: to be sent with notice of charge-
ability, 757; may be appended to it, 759; form of them,
759; how settlement stated in them, 758; if frivo-
lous or vexatious, costs, 758; no objection for defects in
them, in what cases, 758; in what cases amended, 758;
by whom signed, 759; when and how transmitted, 760;
transmission when and how to be proved, 802; respon-
dents confined to them, at the trial, 758; how traversed
by grounds of appeal, 792, 793.
Grounds of removal or appeal, if frivolous or vexatious,
costs, 846.
Growing corn, a crop of, purchased, not a tenement by which
a settlement could be gained, 577.
Guarantee society, security of, may be taken for paid officers,
68.
Guardians of the poor, in unions, 12; their number and quali
fications, 12; how elected, 13; they are a corporation,
19; justices, guardians ex officio, 20, 103; power and
duties of guardians, and how exercised, 20; what they
may or may not do, without the control of the P. L. Com-
missioners, 21; what the commissioners cannot do with-
out their consent, 21; meetings of the guardians, 21;
proceedings of the board, 22; contracts by them, 24;
payments made by them 26; their duty to bury paupers,
26; their certificate, for what purpose, and its effect, 28,
720; form of it, 28; what costs, &c. they may pay, 30;
the relief, &c., of the poor under their sole management,
43, 362, 332, 333; to be paid by the overseers the sums
necessary for that purpose, 44, 343, 344; not to furnish
goods to the poor, for their own profit, 54; penalty for
disobeying their orders, 71; actions against them, 25, 26;
visiting committee of the guardians, and their duties,
305; they make take land, &c. for employment of the
poor, or for letting it to them, 347, 349; rules to be made
by the poor-law commissioners, respecting them, 5. They
may appoint a collector of poor rates, under an order of
the poor-law commissioners, 268, 59.
Guardians of the poor, for single parishes, 31; parishes divided
into wards, 31.
Guardians under local acts, 32; their meetings, 32; who to
be chairman or vice-chairman, 32.
Guardians of the poor, clerk to, and his duties, 73, 76; what
books he shall keep, 76; his duties with respect to the
audit of accounts, &c., 77; may conduct all the proceed-
ings on behalf of the guardians before justices out of ses-
sions, 75; if an attorney, his professional bill, how ex-
amined, 129.
Guardian in socage, or testamentary, in what cases he may
acquire a settlement by estate, 636.
Guernsey, children born in, have no settlement in England,
unless they acquire it, 411; removal of paupers to, 707,
Hamlets, appointment of overseers for, 35, 37; direction of an
order of removal to, 733.
Health, board of, when rateable, 190.
Hearing of an appeal against an order of removal, 801; preli-
minary matter, 801; proof of notice, 802; proof of
chargeability, and grounds of removal, 803; who en-
titled to begin, 804; case confined to the grounds of
removal and appeal, 805, 806; evidence, &c., 804, &c.
Hearing of an appeal against a rate, how, 259; proof of notice,
259; which party to begin, 259, 260; address of counsel,
&c., 261.
Hearsay evidence not allowed, 810, 811.
Herbage of a towing-path, one may be rateable for the herb-
age, another for the towing path, 153.
Heriots, received by the lord of the manor, not rateable, 152.
Highway rate, persons rated to and paying, did not thereby
gain a settlement, 661.
Hire of houses for the purpose of workhouses, 295, 296.
Hiring and service, settlement by, 440; now abolished, 440.
1. Who might or might not acquire a settlement by hiring
and service, 441; unmarried persons, 441; infants, 443;
foreigners, &c., 443; persons already having a settlement
in the same parish, 443; soldiers, militiamen, &c., 443;
apprentices, &c., 445; exceptions by statute, 446.
2. The hiring, 447; by whom, 447; to whom, 448; for
what purpose, 449; defective apprenticeship not a hiring,
449, 548; it must not be illegal, 454; it must be for a
year, 454; general indefinite hiring, 457; hiring for a year
presumed from the service, 459; service with relations,
460; persons taken in out of charity, 462; hiring at
weekly or monthly wages, 462; hiring by the piece, 464;
excepting hiring, 475; conditional hiring, 472; retro-
spective hiring, 475.
3. The service, 476; the service must be for a year, 476;
it may be under the same hiring, or by a continuous
service under consecutive hirings, 476; where, and with
whom, 480. Dispensation or dissolution, 481; in case
of illness, 482; in case of imprisonment, 484; in case
of absence with leave, 485; in case of absence without
leave, 487; parting by mutual consent, 489; in case of
dismissal, 490; in case of another contract being sub-
stituted, 494; fraud, its effect upon the settlement, 497.
4. Residence, 500; where, 500; in a parish since divided
into townships, 765; in several parishes, 502; for what
time, 504; exceptions by statute, 507.
Hiring and service by a certificate-man, 677; to a certificate-
man, 678.
Hiring and service, settlement by, how proved, 721; how
stated in grounds of appeal, 795.
Hog-ringer, an office by which a settlement might be gained,
673.
Holding of tenement, what sufficient to confer a settlement
under stat. 13 & 14 C. 2, c. 12, s. 1, pp. 585, 588; under
stat. 59 G. 3, c. 50, p. 604; under stat. 6 G. 4, c. 57,
p. 612; under stat. 1 W. 4, c. 18, p. 619.
Holt Forest, no settlement by hiring and service in, 446; or
by residence there, 507, 596.
Hospital, in what cases not rateable, 193; guardians may
subscribe to, 21.
Hospital for lying-in women, children born in, where settled,
410, 414.
Hospital, residence as patient in, not reckoned in a five years'
residence in parish, 704.
Hospital, Chelsea or Greenwich, residence in, as in-pensioner,
not to be reckoned in a five years' residence, 703.
Houses, building on the waste for the poor, 351.
Houses rateable to the poor, 160.
Houses, outhouses, &c., tenements by which a settlement
might and may still be gained, 572, 602, 609, 618.
Houses of industry, children born in, where settled, 410.
Houses belonging to the parish, possession of, how recovered
by parish officers, 50.
Householder, overseer must be, 33.
Houseless poor, asylums for, 392, 399, &c.
Husband, liable for relief given to his wife or children, 289;
bound to support children which his wife had before mar-
riage, 290; running away, and leaving his family charge-
able, punishment, 291.
Husband and wife, evidence by one against the other, in what
cases, 807.
Identity of pauper, evidence of, where necessary, 814.
Idiot not deemed emancipated during the life of his parent,
438; if dangerous, not to be kept in workhouse, 319.
Idle and disorderly persons, in what cases removable, 695.
Illegal apprenticeship, confers no settlement, 509.
Illegal hiring, confers no settlement, 454.
Illegitimate children, settlement of, formerly, 407, 412, 439;
their settlement now, 416, 439; their settlement after
sixteen years of age, 416, 439; how proved, 721; their
mothers liable to maintain them, 293; or if the mothers
marry, their husbands liable, 236.
Illegitimate children of Scotch or Irish mothers, cannot be
passed to Scotland or Ireland, 714.
Illness, dispensation of service on account of, 482; suspending
order of removal on account of, 746; in what cases
pauper chargeable on account of, cannot be removed, 690,
692, 338.
Illness, dangerous or sudden, in what cases of, justices may
order medical relief, 362, 329.
Ill-treatment of paupers in workhouse, penalty, 320, 321.
Immoral purpose, hiring for, confers no settlement, 454.
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