Literary institutions, when not rateable, 198.

Litigating settlements, expenses of, to be allowed in overseers'
accounts, 111.

Loan, relief by way of, 371; in ordinary cases, 371; and how
amount recovered, 103, 372, 379; to persons having pro-
perty, 379; to pensioners in the army or navy, 380; to
pensioners who are lunatics, 380; to other lunatics, 381;
to the families of seamen, 381: to persons out of the
union fund, 379.

Local acts, parishes under, appointment of paid officers in,
65; relief by guardians in, 386.

Locks upon navigable rivers, in what cases rateable, 171.
Lord President of the Council, ex officio one of the poor-law
commissioners, 3.

Lord Privy Seal, ex officio one of the poor-law commis-
sioners, 3.

Loss of original indenture of apprenticeship, in case of, secon-
dary evidence may be given of it, 544.

Lunatics, dangerous, not to be kept in workhouse, 319.
Lunatic, confinement of, in an asylum, no break in a five
years' residence, 702; but to be deducted, 703.

Lunatic, order for maintenance of, after residence of five
years, 704, 385.

Lunatics, hospital for, not rateable, 190, unless profit be
made of it, 196.

Lunatics, pensioners, relief to, how, and in what cases, 380.
Lunatics, having property, how relief to them repaid, 381,
341.

Lunatics, removal of, to asylum, and order for costs, 341;
how where they have resided five years, 385.

Lying-in hospitals, settlement of children born in, 410, 414.

M.

Machinery, in what cases rateable, 179, 180; not, as to ma-
chinery attached to mines, 208.

Magdalen hospital, no settlement by hiring and service in, 446.
Maiden settlement, when a married woman retains, 417;

when it is the settlement of her children, 453, 409; how
proved, 725.

Maintenance of the poor, 285, &c.: see Relief." Maintenance
of them by contract, 352.

Maintenance, costs of, in what cases, &c., 847; order for,
after order of removal suspended, 752; statement of them,
how served, 766.

Majority of churchwardens and overseers, act done by, deemed
the act of all, 49.

Man, Isle of, removal of paupers to, 707.

Management of the poor, 285, &c.; rules respecting, may be
made by the poor-law commissioners, 5, 390; contracts
for the management of them, 352.

Mandamus, to hear an appeal, 771; not to make an order of
removal, 771; to grant a distress warrant, in what cases,
276; to make a poor-rate, 234, 245; to allow a rate, 239;
to appoint overseers, 42; to appoint them for a township,
38; not to order overseers of one parish to maintain
children in another, 370.

Manor, lord of, not rateable for his escheats, heriots, quit-
rents, fines, &c., 152.

Manor, lord of, his licence to inclose land from the waste, its
effect, 646, 657.

Manufactories, rateable, 179.

Manured land, settlement by renting, 583.

Marine, time of, when on duty, not to be reckoned in a five
years' residence, 703.

Market, when rateable to the poor, 191, 229; stall in, not
rateable, 163; in what cases a settlement may be gained
by renting, 575.

Market tolls, not rateable, 227; in what cases a settlement
might have been gained by renting, 581.

Marriage, settlement by, 406, 417; in what cases, 417; how,
where the husband has no settlement, 417; how, where
the husband's settlement is unknown, 418; how proved,
419, 725; how disproved, 413; in what cases proved by
former order of reinoval unappealed against, 823, how
stated in grounds of appeal, 798.

Marriage, validity of, 421; in churches and Protestant chapels,
421; in the chapels of Dissenters, &c., 424; in the re-
gistrar's office, 426; marriage of Quakers or Jews, 426;
marriages between persons within the prohibited degrees
of affinity or consanguinity, 431; marriage in Scotland,
427; marriage abroad, 427; marriage in India, 429;
marriages fraudulently obtained by parish officers, 429;
marriage void for bigamy, &c., 429.

Marriage of the mother of a bastard, how far it relieves the
putative father of his liability, 290.

Marriage, registrars of, 423; marriages by them, 426; mar-
riages in their presence, 426.

Marriage, estate by, in what case it confers a settlement, 639.
Marriage, its effect upon the irremovability of a woman, 697.
Married man, could not acquire a settlement by hiring and
service, 441.

Married woman cannot acquire a settlement in her own right,
417; how relieved, 341.

Marshalsea prison, prisoners in, how formerly relieved, 367;
the prison now abolished, 367.

Masters of workhouses, 92; how appointed in unions, 64;
their duties, 92; how punishable for neglect, or breach
of orders, misbehaviour, &c., 320, 303, 53, 71; how
punishable for embezzlement, &c., 54; not to be con-
cerned in furnishing goods, &c., for the poor, 55, 71; not
to inflict corporal punishment on the poor, or confine
them in chains, 327; their accounts, how audited, 128.
Master of workhouse, could not gain a settlement by serving
his office, in what cases, 674.

Master, when and how made answerable for relief by loan to
servant, 374.

Matron of workhouse, how appointed in unions, 64; her
duties, 98.

Medical officers in unions, &c., 84; a "paid officer" within
stat. 4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 76, p. 64, n. :—qualification, 85;
medical districts, 86; rates of payment in surgical and
midwifery cases, 87; substitutes for medical officers, 88;
mode of obtaining medical relief by permanent paupers,
88; duties of the medical officer, generally, 89; duties
of a district medical officer, 89; duties of a workhouse
medical officer, 90; sickness of paupers, how to be notified
to him, 81.

Medical relief, when it may be ordered by justices, 102, 363;
328; form of the order, 363; overseers to make report of
it, 364.

Meetings of the guardians, form of proceedings at, 21, 22; in
what cases extraordinary meetings, 22.

Meetings of overseers, when, 49.

Meetings of parishioners in vestry, and for what purpose, 367.
Meetings of select vestries, 389.

Members of parliament, exempt from serving the office of
overseer, 34.

Members of the college of physicians and surgeons, exempt
from serving the office of overseer, 34.

Merits, what a decision upon, in an appeal against an order of
removal, 831.

Mileage toll on canals, canal rated in different parishes ac-
cording to, 167. Distinction between the mileage and
parochial principles of rating, as to railways, 220–223.
Militiamen, in what cases they could gain a settlement by
hiring and service, 443, or by renting a tenement, 594;
their families, how formerly relieved, 291.

Mill, in what cases a tenement, conferring a settlement, 573.
Mines (except coal mines) not rateable, 206, 162; nor is the
rent that is paid for them, 152, 209; but where the land-
lord is paid in ore he is rateable for it, 152, 209; all
mines, however, are tenements, by which a settlement
may be acquired, 580.

Mineral spring, rateable, 181.

Ministers, dissenting, exempt from serving the office of over-
seer, 34.

Ministers of the different religious persuasions, when allowed
to visit workhouses, 319, 317.

Minutes of the proceedings of select vestries to be laid before
the parish vestry, 390.

Misapplication of money, &c., by overseers or other paid
officers, penalty, 54.

Misbehaviour and misconduct of masters or officers of work-
houses, penalty, 320.

Misbehaviour of paupers in the workhouse, punishment in the
house, 321; punishment upon conviction, 322.

Mistake, relief given under, its effect, 839.

Mistress of workhouse, 98. See " Matron of workhouse.”
Money, borrowed, for building workhouses, 299; not to be
borrowed by overseers for other purposes, 48.

Money payment in lieu of tithe, rateable, 214.

Monthly wages, hiring at, in what cases a hiring for a year, in
what not, 462.

Mortgagor, or mortgagee, estate of, in what cases it confers a
settlement, 635; mortgage to raise part of purchase money
of an estate, does not prevent a settlement, 655.

Mother liable to maintain her children, 285, as well as widows,
293, as unmarried women, 293.

Mother's settlement, in what case bastards to have, 416; in
what cases legitimate children, 433.
Museums of practical geology, not rateable, 187.

N.

Names and ages of children, to be inserted in order of re-
moval, 737.
Navigable rivers, proprietors not rateable, 170, 147, except

for cuts, wears, locks, &c., 171, unless they be owners of
the bed of the river, 171, how rated, if rateable, 172,

225.

Navy, officers in, exempt from serving the office of con-
stable, 34.

Navy, pensioners in, how relieved, 380; how if lunatics, 380.
Necessity, sudden and urgent, relief ordered by justices in

cases of, 102, 328, 333, 390; overseers to report it, 364.
Neglect of churchwardens and overseers to submit their ac-
counts for examination and allowance, penalty, 108, 109;
or to pay over balance to their successors, penalty, 109;
neglect of duty of overseers, penalty, 52.

Negro slave, could not gain a settlement by hiring and
service, merely upon an implied hiring with his master,

New rate, in what cases ordered by the sessions, 263.
New statement of grounds of appeal, in what cases, 787.
News room rateable, and how, 181.

Next of kin, estate of, in what cases it confers a settlement,
638.

Next sessions, what, in an appeal against a rate, 253; in an
appeal against an order of removal, 770, 772.
Nomination of guardians, before election, 16, 17.
Non-access, not provable by husband or wife, 413.
Non-resident paupers, relief to, 342, 366.

Non-settled poor, relief to, in what cases, 366; money sent
for them by their parish, how disposed of, 71, 343. See
"Casual Poor."

Notice of appeal against appointment of overseers, 42.
Notice of appeal against a rate, to special sessions, 249.
Notice of appeal against a rate, to the quarter sessions, 255,
249, 250; grounds of appeal, 256; form of the notice,
258; how served, 256; may be sent by post, 257, 782;
being served too late, how waived, 780; proof of the ser-
vice, 259.

Notice of appeal against an order of removal, 776; what
notice, 777; when to be given, 779; by and to whom,
786; form of it, 783; statement of the grounds of appeal,
783; how framed, 790; form of it, 800; how signed, 786;
how in unions under Gilbert's Act, 782; when to be
served, 787; and upon whom, 789.

Notice of intended binding of parish apprentice, in what cases,
and to whom, 527.

Notices from auditor, 126; and notice thereupon by clerk of
the guardians, 76.

Notice of chargeability, in what cases, and when, 756; form
of it, 759; must name the paupers, 757; by whom signed,
759; when, and how transmitted, 760; ground of appeal,
that none has been sent, 790; sending, when to be proved,
803.

Notice of determining a contract of hiring, effect of, upon the
settlement, 474.

Notice previous to the election of guardians, 15.

Notice to overseers, service of, what sufficient, 49.

Notice to produce, when necessary, 548, 807, 810.

Notice to quit, to persons in possession of parish land, 350.
Notice of holding special sessions for appeals against poor-
rates, 249.

Notice of meetings of parish vestries, in what cases, 391.
Nurse, in workhouse, her duties, 100.

Nurture, children to remain with their parents for, in what

cases, 370; they cannot be removed from them, 689;
order for their maintenance, how, and upon whom, 690.