The which day the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Council, with the Deacons of Crafts ordinary and extraordinary, being in Council assembled, having taken under deliberation the great advantage accruing to this city from the regular support, employment and maintenance of their poor, and that the whole poor entitled to charity of the good town are already taken into the city's Charity Workhouse, or otherwise regularly cared for, till such time as they shall be taken into the said workhouse; ... therefore the city officers and soldiers of the town guard are hereby commanded, under the penalty of deprivation, to seize, so often as they shall discover, or also as often as they are required by any of the inhabitants, every person that shall be found begging within the city ... that they may be sent to the House of Correction, and chastized as law directs ...
Edinburgh (Scotland).Town Council.
Williamson, Joseph,1706-1795.
[Edinburgh : Town Council,
1743?]
Caption title.
Edinburgh, 26th October 1743--at head of sheet.
Extracted forth of the Council records of the City of Edinburgh, by Joseph Williamson.--foot of sheet.
ESTC
Poor
Begging
Public welfare administration
Scotland Edinburgh.