nor compensation for paying county rates, 102; parish
property for the poor vested in them, 49; lands pur-
chased for the poor vested in them, 301; in what cases
liable for goods ordered for the poor, 51.
Overseer, assistant, 57; his appointment and duties, 57, 60;
form of the appointment, 57; to find security, 57, 60
salary, 101; is a "paid officer" within stat. 4 & 5 W.
c. 76, p. 64, n.
Overseers members of the select vestry, 387.
Overseer, settlement by serving the office of, 673.
Overseers, duty of, in respect of the election of guardians,
14, 18.
Owners of lands, &c., in what cases they may vote for guar-
dians, 13; in what cases competent witnesses in appeals,
806.
Paid officers, 64 :—who, 64, n.
1. Paid officers generally, 64:-their appointment, 64;
qualification required, 67; remuneration of officers, 67;
security, in what cases to be required, 68; their continu-
ance in office, 69; personal discharge of their duties, 71;
in what cases to account, 71; disobeying justices or
guardians, 71; furnishing goods, &c., for their own pro-
fit, 71; embezzling or misapplying monies, &c., 72;
assaults upon officers, 73; injuries to officers by persons
applying for relief, 73.
2. Particular officers, 73:-clerk to the guardians, 73:-
his appointment, 73; his duties, 73; what books he shall
keep, 76; 'his duties with respect to the audit of accounts,
&c., 77. Treasurer of the union, 79:-his duties, 79.
Relieving officer, 80:-his appointment, 80; his duties,
80; what books, &c., he shall keep, 82. Medical officer,
84-his appointment, 84; qualification, 85;' medical
districts, 86; surgical and midwifery cases, 87; substitutes
for medical officers, 88; medical relief to permanent
paupers, 88; duties of the medical officer generally, 89;
duties of a district medical officer, 89; duties of a medical
officer for the workhouse, 90. Chaplain, 91:-his ap-
pointment and duties, 91. Master and matron of the
workhouse, 92:-master of the workhouse, 92; his
duties, 92; what books he shall keep, 95. Matron of the
workhouse, 98:-her duties, 98. Schoolmaster and
schoolmistress, 99:-their duties, 99. Nurse, porter,
&c., 100-nurse, her duties, 100; porter, his duties,
100. Superintendent of out-door labour:-his duties,
Palaces, royal, not rateable, 185.
Parents, consent of, to marriage, when necessary, 422; not
necessary to be proved to sustain the marriage, 420.
Parents, liable to maintain their children, 285, 289, 292.
Parentage, settlement by, 432; how proved, 725; how stated
in grounds of appeal, 797.
1. Of legitimate children, 432-when entitled to their
father's settlement, 432; when entitled to their mother's
settlement, 433. Emancipation, 435.
2. Of illegitimate children, 439, 412.
Parishes, guardians for, 31, 104; overseers for, 33; how,
where the parish in two counties, 40; relief by over-
seers in, in what cases, 362.
Parishes not under guardians, relief in, 364.
Parishes by reputation, 34.
Parish, divided into townships, direction of orders of removal
to, 646; formerly two, but joined in one, how rated,
234.
Parishes, boundaries of, how ascertained and proved, 736,
737.
Parish children, the commissioners may make orders respect-
ing, 5; binding them apprentice, 520, 532; how, in
unions, 532; poor law commissioners may prescribe the
duties of the masters, and the terms and conditions of the
indenture, 5, 520, 533; effect of cancelling or giving up
their indenture, 567. Settlement by parish apprentice-
ship, how proved, 722.
Parish clerk, gained a settlement by his office, in what cases,
673.
Parish houses, &c., how recovered, 50.
Parish officer, (see "Overseer," "Paid Officer,") neglect of
duty, or disobedience of orders by, 52; embezzlement
by, 54; being concerned in furnishing goods, &c., for the
poor, 54; fraudulently procuring the marriage of pau-
pers, 429.
Parish property, vested in the overseers, 49, 301.
Park, royal, ranger of, when rateable, 185; underkeepers,
when rateable, 185.
Parliament, members of, exempt from serving the office of
overseer, 34.
Parliamentary returns, charges for filling up, not allowed in
overseers' accounts, 122.
Parochial boards or vestries, the inspectors may attend, 11.
Parochial chapelries, 34.
Parochial principle of rating railways, distinction between,
and the mileage principle, 221, 223.
Parochial property, the commissioners may inquire into, 9;
vested in the overseers, 49, 301.
Parochial taxes, settlement by paying, 600; see “Settle-
ment;" how proved, 724; how stated in grounds of ap
peal, 797.
Parol evidence, when receivable, of renting a tenement, 591.
Parson, how rateable, 48, 145, 146.
Particular orders of the poor law commissioners, what, 6.
Partners, in what cases they gain a settlement by renting a
tenement, 592.
Parting by mutual consent, when a dissolution of a contract
of hiring, 489.
Patient in hospital, residence of, not to be reckoned in a five
years' residence, 704.
Paupers, application of, for relief, 23; their admission into
the work house, 308, 310; how to be classed, 312; re-
fusing to work, punishment, 365, 321; other misbe-
haviour, punishment, 321; running away with clothes,
linen, provisions, &c. from the workhouse, penalty, 322;
conviction, 322; certain punishments not to be inflicted,
327; examination of, before removal, 715; description
of, in an order of removal, 737; in case of illness, order
of removal suspended, 746; removal of, 762; may appeal
against an order of removal, 769; by whom and at whose
expense buried, 26.
Pauper lunatics, relief of, 340, 380, 381.
Paupers, Irish, Scotch, &c., removal of, 707.
Payments out of rates to the guardians, in what cases, 49; and
how enforced, 343, 344.
Payments by guardians, how to be made, 26, 25; by over-
seers, when to be made, 110, 111.
Payment of rate, pending or after appeal, 279.
Payment of rates and taxes, settlement by, 660, 406; how
proved, 724, 666; how stated in grounds of appeal, 797.
1. Settlement from 1690 to 22nd June, 1795, p. 660:
what taxes within the Act, 660; the party must be
charged with them, 661; and he must pay them, 665;
residence, 666.
2. Settlement from the 22nd June, 1795, to the 22nd June,
1825, p. 667; tenement of the value of 10l., p. 667.
3. Settlement from the 22nd June, 1825, p. 669; assess-
ment in respect of what tenement, 669.
A certificate-man cannot gain a settlement in this way, 678.
Payments what to be allowed or disallowed in overseers' ac-
counts, 109, 110, 113.
Payment and receipt book to be kept by overseers, 46.
Payment of rent, what sufficient to gain a settlement by rent-
ing a tenement under stat. 59 G. 3, c. 50, p. 606; under
6 G. 4, c. 57, p. 614; under 1 W. 4, c. 18, p. 621.
Payment of salary to paid overseers, 68.
Peace, justices of, exempt from serving the office of overseer,
34; their authority, in ordering relief, 102, 367; in re-
movals, 103, 681; as ex officio guardians, 103: in visit-
ing workhouses, 104, 303; in appointing overseers, 106,
33; in allowing or disallowing their accounts, 106, 109;
in allowing poor rates, 107, 239. Authority of justices
in boroughs, 107.
Peers, exempt from serving the office of overseer, 34.
Pensioners in the army or navy, relief of, 380; relief of them
when lunatics, 380.
Perambulation of parish, a mode of proving its boundaries,
Perjury, persons convicted of, not to be parish officers, 65.
Personal property, not rateable, 146.
Personating voters at election of guardians, punishment, 13.
Petty sessions, to make order on putative father of bastard,
293; to make order for relief of lunatics, 340; to make
order for relief upon relations, 285.
Physicians, exempt from serving the office of overseer, 34:
when and how authorized to visit workhouses, 104, 308;
when and for what purpose called in, in the case of pauper
lunatics, 340.
Piecework, hiring to do, when a hiring for a year, when not,
464.
Pier, floating, when rateable, 160.
Pinder, office of, in what cases a settlement might be gained
by serving, 674.
Pipes of water works, land occupied by, how rateable, 173;
of gas works, land occupied by, how rateable, 175.
Pits of clay, in what cases rateable, 208.
Piscary, right of, in what cases rateable, 212.
Place of birth, how proved, 409, 413.
Plea, in actions against overseers, 52.
Ponds, in what cases formerly tenements, by which the tenant
might gain a settlement, 580.
Poor, casual, who, 338; in what cases to be relieved, 338,
339; cannot be removed, 692.
Poor house, 295. See" Workhouse."
Poor-law commissioners, 2; their appointment, 2; their seal,
5; their authority generally, 3; their power to make
rules, generally, 5; for the relief of the poor, 5; for the
relief of able-bodied poor, 335, 333; and as to the
government of workhouses, 329; their rules how proved,
6; how contested, 7; their power to prescribe the duties
of the masters of parish apprentices, and the terms and
conditions of the indenture, 5, 520, 533; their power to
form unions of parishes, 7; their power to order work-
houses to be built or repaired, 8; their power of inquiry
and examination, 9; their power to inquire into parochial
property, 9; may order guardians of a union to appoint
a collector, 59, or other paid officer, 64, and may define
and appoint his duties, 65; reports to be made by them,
10; their secretaries, 10; salaries, 11.
Poor-law commissioners, their letter of instructions to auditors,
125; their rules, as to the duties of overseers, 43, 44, 113,
clerk to the guardians, 73, treasurer, 79, relieving officer,
80, medical officer, 84, chaplain, 91, master of the work-
house, 92, matron of the workhouse, 98, schoolmaster,
&c., 99, other paid officers, 64, visitors of workhouses,
305, and workhouses, 308.
Poor-law commissioners, references of questions to, for their
decision, 851.
Poor in prisons, relief of, 366.
Poor rate, 145.
Persons liable to be rated to the poor, 145:—1. Inhabitants,
145; no rate on stock in trade, &c., 146.
2. Parson, vicar, &c., 146.
3. Occupier, 146:-what occupier rateable, 146; occupa-
tion as servant, 148; the occupation must be beneficial,
150; occupation for part of a year, 151.
4. Landlord, 152:-not rateable generally, 152. Land-
lords, in what cases to be rated for small tenements, 153;
in what cases, 153; how rated, 154; rates how recovered,
155; rights and privileges of owners and occupiers, 155;
in what cases the tenant excused, 156.
In respect of what property persons are rateable, 160:--
land, 160; docks, 163; canals, 166; navigable rivers,
169; waterworks, 173; gas works, 177; other valuable
erections, &c., 178; lands, &c., where the rate is limited
by statute, 181; lands, &c., exempted from rate by
statute, 183; lands, buildings, &c., for public pur-
poses, 585; charitable institutions, 193; scientific and
literary institutions, 198; chapels, 202; woods and
underwood, 204; mines, &c., 205; aftermath, 209; right
of common, &c., 209; piscary, 211; tithes, 212; ways,
217; railways, 218; tolls, 224.
In what parish, &c., property rateable, 230:-allotments
under inclosure Act, 230; land, bridges, docks, canals,
waterworks, gas works, &c., extending into two or more
parishes, 230, 232; coal mines, 232.
The rate, its nature, requisites, and form, 234:-by
whom made, 234; how made, and the form of it, 234;
form of it, 236-238; new valuation of the rateable pro-
perty, 239. Allowance and publication of the rate, 239.
For what purpose made, 242; for what period, 242. It
must be equal, 243. Rate bad in part, 245.
Rate in aid, 247:-in what cases, 247; by whom made,
247; upon whom, 248.
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