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§. 24.
Appeal. |
Poor.
If any persons find themselves grieved with any Tax,
or other act
done by the Overseers, or by the said Justices of Peace, they are to be
relieved
at the Quarter Sessions. |
Chap. 73.
P. 7. |
Corporate
Towns. |
Head Officers of Cities and Corporate Towns (being
Justices of Peace)
have the same authority within their limits, as herein is limited to Justices
of Peace of the County, &c. And no other Justices of Peace are
to intermeddle
there. |
P. 3. |
§. 25.
Parish in
two Liberties. |
If any Parish shall extend into two Counties, or
part thereof do lie in
any City or Corporate Town where they have Justices, then the Justices
of every County, &c. shall intermeddle only within their own limits:
And every of them respectively within their limits, are to execute this
Law concerning the nomination of Overseers, binding of Apprentices,
giving Warrants to levy Taxations unpaid, taking account of Overseers,
and committing such as refuse to account, to pay their arrearages:
And
yet the said Overseers shall without dividing themselves, execute their
office in all places within the said Parish, but shall give up several
Accompts
&c. |
P. 10. |
§. 26.
Parents. |
The Father, and Grand-father, and Mother, and Grand-mother,
and
the Children and Grand children of every poor impotent person, or other
poor persons not able to work, being of sufficient ability, shall relieve
such
poor persons in such manner as the Justices of Peace (of that County where
such sufficient persons dwell) at their general Quarters Sessions shall
assess;
upon pain that every one failing therein, forfeit twenty shillings for
every month; the said forfeiture to be levied by the Churchwardens
and Overseers, or one of them by Warrant from any two such Justices
of Peace (the one being of the Quorum) within their limits, by Distress
and
Sale as aforesaid; and in defect of Distress, any two Justices may
commit the offender to prison, there to remain without Bail, till the said
Forfeiture be paid, And the same Forfeiture shall be imployed to
the use of
the Poor of the same Parish.
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Resol. 16,
17. p. 8.
P. 12.
43 Eliz. 2. |
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' The reputed Grand-father or Grand-mother seem
not to be within this
' Statute, for a Bastard is filius populi. Reeves Case M.
7 Car. |
Bastar. 52
p. 344. |
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' If the Child live in the County of Middlesex,
and be maintained by
' the Parish there; and the Grand-father, &c. live in the County of
Suffolk,
' the Justices of Middlesex can make no order therein; but the Justices
' of Peace of the County of Suffolk, must make order to change,
' &c. |
Ibid. 34 c. |
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' If the Grand-mother be a person of ability, and
then marries, the
' person with whom she marries is a Grand-father within this Statute; for
' by the Marriage, all her Goods are given to the Husband, but with this
' difference; if the Grand-mother at the time of the marriage, were of
' ability, otherwise not. Drapers Case, also Gerrards
Case, But if the
' Wife having nothing to bring her Husband in marriage; but after by
' her industry her Husband becomes a very rich Man, the Husband shall be
' charged by Whitlock, but Crook to the contrary: But
they both agreed,
' That if an Estate descend to the Wife after marriage, the Husband shall
' be charged. |
Ibid. 355. |
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' And the Father also may be compelled to allow
maintenance to his Sons
' Wife (the Husband being absented) as was done in the case of one John
' Ball, by Ord. 2. Sept. 15. Jac. lib. Sess.
pa. Mid. |
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Now for the better furtherance of this so needful
and charitable a service,
and for the better help as well of the Justices of Peace, as of the
Overseers, &c. I thought it not amiss to set down here certain
Resolutions |
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