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Poor.
' wheresoever; and whether his rent received within the Parish where
he
' lives shall be accompted visible ability, and whether he shall be
taxed for
' them only, and for any Rent received from other Parishioners; and
what
' shall be said visible ability? |
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' Resol. The Land within each Parish
is to be taxes to the Charges in the
' first place equally and indifferently, but there may be an addition
for
' the personal visible ability of the Parishioners within their Parish,
according
' to good discretion, wherein if there be any mistaking, the Sessions,
&c.
' or the Justices must judge between them. |
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' 19. Qu. Whether Shops, Salt
pits, Sheds, Profits of a Market, &c.
' be taxable to the Poor as well as Lands, Cole-mines, and expressed in
' the Statute 43 Eliz. |
Things taxable
to the
Poor. |
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' Resol. All things which are real,
and a yearly revenue, must be taxed
' to the Poor. |
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' 20. Qu. Whether the Tax for
the County-stock, Gaol, and House of
' Correction, is to be made by the Statute of 14 Eliz. 5. 43 Eliz.
2. by ability,
' and upon the Inhabitants of the Parish only, or upon them, or the
' occupiers of Lands, dwelling in that Parish, or whether as such occupy
' Lands in that Parish, and dwell in another Parish, shall be taxed? |
Tax for the
County-Stock,
Gaol,
house of
Correction,
how to be
made. |
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' Resol. If the Statute in particular
Cases give no special direction, it
' is good discretion to go according to the rate of Taxation for the Poor:
' But when the Statutes themselves give direction, follow that. |
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' 21. Qu. Whether any Taxes ought
to be made for the charges that
' Petty Constables and Borsholders are at, in conveying Rogues from Parish
' to Parish, and relieving of them, and how to be rated? |
Tax for the
Charges of
Petty Constables. |
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' Resol. It is fit to relieve
the Constable and Tithingmen, in such sort as
' hath been used in the several places where they live. |
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' 22. Qu. Whether a Justice of
Peace may discharge a Servant, being
' with Child, from her Service, allowing that as a reasonable cause
that
' she is thereby made unable to do the service, which otherwise she
might
' have done; and if he may discarge her, whether that Parish shall provide
' for her, till her delivery, if she cannot provide for her self; and
so also,
' if her time be expired before her delivery, who shall provide for her
' after her time ended? |
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' Resol. If a Woman being with Child,
procure her self to be retained
with a Master who knoweth nothing thereof, this is a good cause to discharge
' her from her service. And if she be gotten with Child, during her
' service, it is all one: But the Master in neither case must
turn away such
' a servant of his own authority. But if her term be ended, or she
lawfully
' discharged; the Master is not bound to provide for her, but is
' is a misfortune laid upon the Parish, which they must bear, as in
other
' cases of casual impotency. |
A Woman
servant
with child,
how to be
discharged. |
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' 23. Qu. Whether one being delivered
of a Bastard-child in one Parish,
' and goeth into another with her Child, and becomes Vagrant, and so
' is sent to the place of her Birth. Her Bastard-child being
under the age
' of seven years, shall be setled with the Mother, and there maintained;
' if the Mother be not able, nor the Reputed-father known, found; or
' whether it shall be sent to the place of its Birth, or being setled
with the
' Mother, whether the Parish where it was born, shall be ordered by the
' two next Justices, to pay a weekly sum towards the maintenance of
it? |
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Resol. The Bastard-child must be placed
with the Mother, so long
' as it is within the quality or condition of a Nurse-child, which shall
be,
' till seven years of age; and then it is fit to be sent to the place of
its
' Birth to be provided for, the Mother or reputed-father not being able. |
Bastard-children,
how to be
disposed. |
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