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25th March appointed Article attend Audit Districts Bank Bart board of guardians Board of Health borough Bridgnorth bury bye-laws Carmarthen certificate Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen Charles Chas chester Clerks commissioners COUNTIES AND UNIONS County Asylum Day of Meeting duty Earl East Edward Edwd Evans exceeding f.Th ford Gateshead George Henry James John John Henry Gurney Jones Joseph King's Lynn Leicester Llanrwst lodgers lodging-house Lord Machynlleth Mary Masters mates medical officer minster North Norwich nuisances officer of health ordinary meeting Overseers Parishes pauper places locally situated Poor Law Board Population in 1851 privies Pwllheli Reference to Audit relieving officer Richard Richd Robert Robt Samuel Second Sect sickness Sleaford Smith South South Shields Stoke-upon-Trent Street Sunday surveyor Tetbury thereof Thomas Thos Thrapston Todmorden Treasurers Uckfield Ulverstone Vict waterclosets West William workhouse
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Page 175 - Board shall cause the sewers vested in them to be constructed, covered, and kept so as not to be a nuisance or injurious to health...
Page 200 - WE, THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS, in pursuance of the authorities vested in Us by an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales...
Page 185 - ... the said external window, and so as to allow between every part of such steps and the external wall of such vault, cellar or room, a clear space of six inches at...
Page 14 - Act, also, offences committed on the high seas within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England are to he tried in this court.
Page 184 - ... and extending along the entire frontage thereof, and upwards from six inches below the level of the floor thereof up to the surface of the said street or ground, an open space of at least two feet and six inches wide in every part, nor unless the same be well and effectually drained...
Page 70 - Board, may pay to any such officer a reasonable compensation on account of extraordinary services or other unforeseen circumstances connected with his duties or the necessities of the district or districts for which he is appointed.
Page 197 - And also all such persons married or unmarried as having no means to maintain them use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by; and also to raise weekly or otherwise (by taxation of every inhabitant...
Page 197 - ... a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work : and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them being poor and unable to work, and also for the putting out of such children to be apprentices, to be gathered out of the same parish...
Page 40 - No. 12. To prepare and transmit all reports, answers, or returns, as to any question or matter connected with or relating to the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor in the union, or to any other business of the union, which...
Page 16 - ... shall be occupied by any person in trade who shall expose to sale and sell any goods, wares, or merchandise in any shop or warehouse, being part of the same dwelling-house", and in the front and on the ground or basement story thereof...