Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XII. Memoranda by individual commissioners on various subjects.

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XII. Memoranda by individual commissioners on various subjects. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE A. —THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSION OF 1832: Outdoor Relief of the Able-Bodied in Kind 14 [1] Outdoor Relief of the Able-Bodied in Money : (1) Relief without Labour - . ... - - 15 [2] (2) Allowance ..... 15 [2] (3) The Roundsman System 16 [3] (4) Parish Employment - - - - - - - - 16 [3] (5) The Labour-Rate System - - 17 [4] Outdoor Relief of the Impotent 18 [o] Indoors Relief ■ - - - 19 [6] Effects of the System : (1) On Owners of Property - - - 21 [<?} (2) On Employers of Labourers 22 [9] (3) On Labourers - - - ' - 22 [9 J Overseers : (1) Overseers - 24 [11] (2) Assistant Overseers - - - - - - - - 25 [12} Vestries : (1) Open Vestries - - - - . - -. - - - -. - - - 25 [12J (2) Representative (or Select) Vestries 26 [13] (3) Self-appointed Vestries (also called Select) 26 [13J Magistrates - - - .... - 26 [13}. Settlement - - - - - --28 [15], Bastardy - - - - - - 29 [16] National Charge - 30 [17] Occupation of Land by Labourers (Allotments) 31 [18] Labour Rate - - - - - - - r 31 [18J Remedial Measures : (1) Settlement -36 [23] (2) Bastardy 36 [23] (3) Emigration - - - - - - - - - 37 B. —THE PRINCIPLES OF THE POOR LAW AMENDMENT ACT OF 1834 - - - - 38 [1] C—THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS, 1834-1847 : First Annual Report : August 10th, 1835 45 [2] Second Annual Report : August 19th, 1836 - - - 49 [6] (1) Addenda - - - - 52 [9] Third Annual Report : July 17th, 1837 60 [17] (1) Addenda 63 [20] Fourth Annual Report : August 4th, 1838 63 [20] (1) Addenda : A. —The Soft-Handed Labourer and the Stone Yard - - - - - • - - 65 [22] B. —Kent and East Sussex in 1834 66 [23] O—Rates and Rents 66 [23] (2) Beginnings of the Irish Poor Law 66 [23]