An Act for obliging the overseers of the poor, within the several parishes and places within that part of Great Britain called England, to make returns, upon oath, to certain questions, specified in the Act, relative to the state of their poor; and to authorise and require the justices of the peace, within their respective divisions and jurisdictions, in the several counties and cities in England and Wales, to take such returns upon oath, and to cause them to be transmitted to the clerk of the Parliaments.
Great Britain.
London : printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan,
1776.
At head of drop-head title: 'Anno decimo sexto Georgii III. Regis. Cap. XL.'.
Imprint from general titlepage.
Issued separately with a general titlepage, and also as part of: 'Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, decimo sexto. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the twenty-ninth day of November, anno Domini 1774, .. And from thence continued, by several prorogations, to the twenty-sixth day of October, 1775; being the second session of the fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain.'.
Last word of first line of text: 'Ex-'; first word of line below initial: 'lature'; last word of last full line of text: 'being'.
Pp.1073-1075 consist of: "Schedule.".
Text in black letter.
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