| Chap. 53.
39 El. 4. |
House of Correction.
' All Fines and Forfeitures by that Act (except
such as be thereby otherwise
' disposed of) shall be employed for Reparation of the Houses of Correction
' and stock and store thereof, or for the use of the Poor of the
' Parish, as the Justice of Peace shall think fit. |
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§. 2.
Penalties. |
| 39 El. 4. |
' The Lord Chancellor, or Lord Keeper, may from
time to time grant
' Commissions to inquire by Oath of persons, as by Witnesses and Examination,
' of Monies collected for Maintenance of Houses of Correction,
' &c. which Mony shall be collected, or employed for erecting or maintenance
' thereof, that Act is continued by 3 Car. 1. 3 & c. 7.
Ca. 1. c. 4. |
§. 3.
Commissions. |
| 39 El. 5. |
' Every person seized of an Estate in Fee-simple,
may be Deed inrolled
' in Chancery, erect, found and establish one or more Hospitals, abiding
' places or houses of Correction, as well for sustenation of Poor, as to
set
' Poor on work, &c. See this Statute well explained 2 Inst.
720. and that
' Act is made perpetual by 21 Jac. 1. |
§. 4.
Charities. |
| 7 Jac. 4. |
' By 7 Jac. 4. In every County where
a House of Correction was not
' before that time provided; It was Enacted a convenient house or houses
' with a backside adjoyning, with Mills, Turns, Cards, and necessary
' implements to set idle persons on work in some convenient place or
' Town of the County; which shall be purchased, conveyed and assured to
' such persons as the Justices of Peace in Sessions shall think fit in
trust to
' be employed, &c. or else every Justice of Peace was to forfeit 5
d. to be
' employed for the erecting, procuring, &c. such house. |
Erection. |
| 7 Jac. 4. |
' The Justices of Peace in their Sessions may elect
and appoint one or
' more persons to be Governor or Master of the house of Correction, who
' shall have power to set Rogues, Vagabonds, and Idle and Disorderly
' persons to work and labour, being able; and to punish them by putting
' Fetters or Gives on them, and by moderate whipping of them; which
' persons shall not be chargeable to the Country, but shall have such allowance
' as they deserve by their labour. |
§. 5.
Governour. |
| 7 Jac. 4. |
' The Justices of their Sessions may appoint a yearly
allowance to the
' Master of the House of Correction, to be paid Quarterly beforehand, by
' the Treasurer appointed by 43 El. 2. The Master giving security
for
' continuance and performance of the service, which if the Treasurer shall
' not do, the Master may levy it, as the Treasurer might have done. |
Allowance. |
|
' See this Statute well expounded, and explained
by my Lord Coke,
' 2 Inst. 728. |
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| 7 Jac. 4. |
' If the Governour shall not every Quarter Sessions
yield a true and
' lawful Accompt to the Justices, of all person committed to their custody,
' or if the persons committed, be troublesom to the Country by going abroad,
' or shall escape away, before they be lawfully delivered; The Justices
' may in Sessions set down such Fines and Penalties on the Master as
' they shall think fit, which shall be paid to the Treasurer. |
§. 6.
Governours
Duty. |
| 1 Inst. 730. |
' The Justices Mittimus to the house of Correction
may be most safely
' made upon this Statute, Quia otiofa & inordinata persona,
for that he is
' an Idle and Disorderly person, or for that he is an Idle person, or that
he
' is a Disorderly. |
Mittimus. |
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