R. An Act for erecting workhouses and houses of correction, in the town of Kingston-uponHull, for the employment and maintenance of the poor there. Recites that, it was found by experience that the poor in the town of Kingston-upon-Hull do daily multiply, and through idleness or want of employment and sufficient authority to compel them thereunto, become indigent and disorderly; and, that many poor children that might be taught to get themselves a maintenance, are accustomed to begging and wandering, against which public mischief sufficient redress hath not been provided. It is enacted, that from 1st June, 1698, there shall be a corporation consisting of the Mayor, recorder and aldermen, and twenty-four other persons to be elected by the inhabitants, paying 2d. per week poor rates. That the corporation be called the governor, deputy governor, assistants and guardians of the poor, may sue and be sued by that name, may purchase lands and elect officers. Penalty on persons elected officers, not serving. Time and manner of holding courts. Corporation empowered to have a Common Seal, make By-Laws, purchase and erect Workhouses, take up idle persons, and set children to work and bind them apprentices. Court may inflict punishment on poor persons misbehaving. Sums necessary for erecting Workhouse (not exceeding £2000,) and for maintenance of the poor (not exceeding what had been paid in any one of the preceding years) to be certified by the corporation to the Mayor, Recorder and Aldermen, who shall cause the same to be raised and levied by taxation of every inhabitant, and of all lands, houses, tythes impropriate, appropriation of tythes, and all stocks and estates in the said town and the lordship of Myton, in equal proportions according to their respective values, and apportion the same upon each parish and precinct within the said town, and shall cause the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of each respective parish to assess and levy the same, and to pay the same unto the treasurer or treasurers of the said corporation for the time being. Persons aggrieved may appeal. If Mayor refuse to issue warrant for the assessment of the rate, corporation empowered to issue warrants for that purpose. Any person giving £50 may be elected a guardian. Corporation to provide for the poor, and set idle persons to work. Alms Houses not to be subject to the corporation. Corporation may choose other officers and allow them salaries. Officers exempted from Penalties of 25 Charles II. for preventing dangers from popish recusants. Officers to account, &c. Penalties how to be levied. Charitable donations to be paid to the corporation. Persons sued may plead the general issue, and give special matter in evidence. Act declared to be a public act. R. An Act for the more effectual punishment of vagrants, and sending them whither by law they ought to be sent. Recital, that there is an ancient hospital or corporation in the town of Kingston-upon-Hull, called or known by the name of the guild or brotherhood of masters and pilots seamen of the Trinity-House, in Kingston-upon-Hull, founded upon the encouragement of shipping and navigation, and for the relief of poor distressed seamen, their widows and children, within the said town of Kingston-upon-Hull. And reciting that by an act passed in the 9th and 10th Gul. III. intituled "An Act for erecting workhouses and houses of correction, in the town of Kingston-upon-Hull, for the employment and maintenance of the poor there," wherein is contained a clause, that all charitable gifts, devises and dispositions that shall hereafter be given, devised, or disposed to or for the use of the said town, or of any place within the same, shall be paid to the corporation in the said act mentioned, to and for the use of the poor of the said town; by which clause all gifts made by seafaring men, or others, well disposed for the endowment of the said hospital of the Trinity-House, in Kingston-upon-Hull, for the better and further maintenance of the said distressed seamen, their widows and children, are or may be prevented, or discouraged to bestow any charitable benefaction thereon, lest the same should be or be claimed, to be applied to the use of the poor of the said town, in general, contrary to the intention of such benefactors, by means whereof the said hospital is likely to be greatly prejudiced by the clause aforesaid, and other clauses in the said act. It is enacted that the said clause shall be repealed, and that neither the said clause, or any other thing in the said act contained, shall affect the said hospital or corporation of the Trinity. House, or to the prejudice of the poor belonging thereto, but shall stand repealed and void. An Act for the public registering of all deeds, conveyances, wills, and other incumbrances within the East Riding of the county of York, or the town and county of the town of Kingston-upon-Hull, after the 29th Sept. 1708. Page. Subject. It is enacted that a memorial of all deeds and A public register office established at Memorials of wills to be registered within If wills contested, a memorial of such contest to be registered. Bargain and sale enrolled at register office, as effectual as in the courts at Westminster. No judgment to affect lands until registered, crown excepted. For other clauses see the act. R. An Act for the more effectual provision for the That the poor had so increased, that the It is enacted that after the 1st May, 1710, the corporation constituted by the recited act, shall assess such further sum annually, not exceeding £130 per annum, to be employed for the purposes mentioned in the former act, all the clauses of which were confirmed. No person shall be assessed towards the raising of the said assessment who was not or shall not hereafter be assessed by virtue of the former act at 2d. or more per week. An act for the better regulating the office of The schedule or list in the act mentioned, R.An Act for explaining, amending, and making Recites 9 and 10 Gul, III. c. 18. and 8 Anné Page. 1 2345 19 18-9 10 11 12 Subject. That, by reason of the great increase in the number of inhabitants in the said Town since the making of the said recited act, (which is computed to be about one half more than it was then, and is yet increasing) the poor is become so numerous that the sums raised, with the revenues and other incomes of the said corporation, are not sufficient for the maintenance of the said poor. It is enacted, that after the 1st May, 1742, the corporation shall be empowered to ascertain and certify such sum as shall be necessary for the maintenance of the poor, not exceeding in any one year £650, to be apportioned and assessed by the Mayor &c. Disposition of the Money. Penalty for neglect of duty. Power to deduct charges of distraining. Power to displace or remove Guardians. Mayor and Aldermen not to make alterations Limitation of actions. Persons sued may plead the general issue, and give special matter in evidence, and recover tréble costs. Act declared to be a public act. E. An Act for repairing the Road between the E. An Act for repairing the Road leading from the E. An Act for repairing the Road leading from a An Act for vesting the equity of redemption of R.* An Act for explaining, amending, and mak- с Page. 1234 69 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ing the streets, squares, lanes, and alleys, in Recites 9 and 10 Gul. III, c. 47. 15 Geo. II. c. 10. That, by reason of the continual increase of the poor in the said town, under the care of the said corporation, since the last recited act, the sum of £650 thereby provided to be allowed, and yearly raised, as aforesaid, together with the revenues and other incomes of the said corporation are not sufficient to maintain the said poor. It is enacted, That after the 1st May, 1755, the said Corporation shall certify unto the Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen of the said town in manner as in the first recited act is prescribed, what weekly, monthly, or other sum or sums of money shall be necessary for the maintenance of the poor of the said town, under the care of the corporation, so as the sum or sums to be certified as aforesaid, do not in any one year exceed in the whole the sum of £1000, except as thereinafter mentioned, which shall be raised, assessed, and levied, as in the recited acts are directed. Disposition of the money. Power for the Governor, deputy Governor, and Guardians, to certify such additional sums as may be necessary, to the Mayor, &c. to be assessed, raised, and levied, as by the recited acts is prescribed. Seven days to be allowed to the Mayor and Aldermen to issue their warrants for such assessment, and seven days after such assessment for levying and paying the sums so assessed. The Governor, or Deputy Governor, and six Guardians to be a court, or assembly, for all the purposes of this act, or the recited acts, (except as to certifying for additional sums.) Persons not providing for their wives, or children, to be taken up and set to work in the workhouse. Governor during the intervals of courts to order reasonable punishment on persons in the workhouse misbehaving. In case of death or removal of Guardians, others to be chosen. Overseers to collect arrears during three months after their office shall have expired. Not to take away or lessen the power of the corporation to levy upon the goods of overseers such sums as he should have collected, levied, or paid. Recited acts continued (except such clauses &c. as are thereby or by any other act repealed, altered, or otherwise provided for.) Lamps, Scavengers, &c. |