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Page xxii
... months immediately preceding . ' † Residence or occupation is not required as part of the qualification . ' In ordinary cases only one person is rated , and he is the occu- pier . ' The officer of any corporation , company ...
... months immediately preceding . ' † Residence or occupation is not required as part of the qualification . ' In ordinary cases only one person is rated , and he is the occu- pier . ' The officer of any corporation , company ...
Page xxvi
... months of widowhood ; ( 5 ) Shall require relief , being a widow , who has a legitimate child or children dependent on her , is incapable of earning his , her , or their livelihood , and has no illegitimate children born after the ...
... months of widowhood ; ( 5 ) Shall require relief , being a widow , who has a legitimate child or children dependent on her , is incapable of earning his , her , or their livelihood , and has no illegitimate children born after the ...
Page xxvii
... months of widowhood ; and an exception by which such relief may be given to a widow who has a legitimate child or children dependent on her ( see above ( 5 ) ) , and who at the time of her husband's death was resident with him in some ...
... months of widowhood ; and an exception by which such relief may be given to a widow who has a legitimate child or children dependent on her ( see above ( 5 ) ) , and who at the time of her husband's death was resident with him in some ...
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... month in a workhouse is , after giving notice , detained 24 hours ; if within the month he has left the workhouse , or , as the phrase is , ' discharged himself ' once or oftener , he is detained 48 hours ; if twice in two months , 72 ...
... month in a workhouse is , after giving notice , detained 24 hours ; if within the month he has left the workhouse , or , as the phrase is , ' discharged himself ' once or oftener , he is detained 48 hours ; if twice in two months , 72 ...
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... months , if a pauper has in his possession any money or valuable security . In the event of the pauper's death , they may be reimbursed for twelve months ' expenditure and the cost of burial . XVI . SETTLEMENT AND REMOVAL . § The words ...
... months , if a pauper has in his possession any money or valuable security . In the event of the pauper's death , they may be reimbursed for twelve months ' expenditure and the cost of burial . XVI . SETTLEMENT AND REMOVAL . § The words ...
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Page lxxxvi - workshop " means any premises, room or place, not being a factory as above defined, wherein any manual labor is exercised by way of trade or for purposes of gain in or incidental to any process of making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing or adapting for sale any article...
Page clxxvi - working class " includes mechanics, artisans, labourers, and others working for wages ; hawkers, costermongers, persons not working for wages, but working at some trade or handicraft without employing others, except members of their own family, and persons other than domestic servants whose income in any case does not exceed an average of thirty shillings a week, and the families of any of such persons who may be residing with them.
Page lxxvii - ... may enter (if need be by force) any house, building, or other place specified in the warrant, and may remove the child therefrom.
Page xlv - ... every person wandering abroad and endeavouring by the exposure of wounds or deformities to obtain or gather alms; every person going about as a gatherer or collector of alms, or endeavouring to procure charitable contributions of any nature or kind, under any false or fraudulent pretence...
Page cxxiii - Metropolis (which is defined by section 100 to be the City of London and the parishes and places mentioned in Schedules A, B, and C, to the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, as amended by subsequent Acts...
Page xlv - ... every person wandering abroad, or placing himself or herself in any public place, street, highway, court, or passage, to beg or gather alms, or causing or procuring or encouraging any child or children so to do, shall be deemed an idle and disorderly person...
Page cxxxvi - For fixing and from time to time varying the number of persons who may occupy a house or part of a house which is let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family...
Page lxxxvi - To examine either alone or in the presence of any other person, as he thinks fit, with respect to matters under this Act, every person whom he finds in a factory or workshop...
Page lxxxv - ... wherein, or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which, steam, water, or other mechanical power is used in aid of the manufacturing process carried on there.
Page xcv - That is found wandering and not having any home or settled place of abode, or proper guardianship, or visible means of subsistence...