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# Destitute Persons Act 1846/Section 10

Custody of illegitimate children in certain cases.
10.In case of the death or insanity of the mother of any child in respect of whom any order as last aforesaid may have been made under the authority of this Ordinance, or in any other case, with the consent of the mother of any such child, it shall be lawful for any two Justices to appoint in writing some fit person who with his own consent shall have the custody of the child; and any two Justices may revoke the appointment of such person and may appoint another person in his stead as occasion may require; and every person so appointed to have the custody of any such child shall be empowered ​to make application for the receiving of all payments becoming due under any such order as aforesaid in the same manner as the mother of such child might have done.
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# Destitute Persons Act 1846/Section 12

Age to be stated in articles of apprenticeship.
12.Previously to executing any articles of apprenticeship such Justices shall inform themselves as fully as may be of the age of the child so to be bound as aforesaid, and shall cause the age of the child so ascertained to be inserted in the articles of apprenticeship, and the age so to be inserted shall thereupon for the purposes of this provision be taken to be the child's true age without further proof: Provided also that such Justices shall take care that in every such articles reasonable provision be made for the maintenance clothing and wages of the apprentice, and for the proper and humane treatment of such apprentice.
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# Destitute Persons Act 1846/Section 17

Recovery of payments in arrear.
17.In case the sum directed to be paid by any order made in pursuance of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be in arrear or unpaid for the space of one calendar month or upwards, it shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace, on the application of the person entitled to receive the same, by warrant to cause any person making such default to be brought before any two Justices, and if such person shall fail to make payment of such arrears, the amount then due shall be determined by the said Justices and shall be recovered in a summary way: Provided always that if the sum to be paid in pursuance of any such order shall have been allowed by the person entitled to receive the same to be in arrear for more than thirteen weeks without making such application as aforesaid, the person liable to pay the same shall not be compelled to pay more than the amount due for thirteen weeks in discharge of the whole debt, and no warrant
of distress shall be issued for more than the amount of arrears for thirteen weeks' payment in discharge of the whole arrears.
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# Destitute Persons Act 1846/Section 19

Property of persons absconding liable for support of their wives and children.
19.In case it shall be made to appear upon oath to the satisfaction of any two Justices that any person hath quitted the Colony, or keeps himself concealed or away from his usual place of abode, and hath left his wife or children without means of support, or that such person is so absent with the intent to avoid the payment of any sum of money he may have been ordered to pay under the authority of this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for any two Justices, by warrant under their hands, to authorize some person to receive so much of the rents and profits of the real estate of such person, and to sell such portion of his personel estate as the said Justices may from time to time direct, not exceeding the rate hereinbefore provided, and to appropriate the money so received towards the support of the wife or children of such person as the case may be in such manner as to the said Justices shall seem meet: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to interfere with the just rights claims or remedies of any person to whom the person so quitting the Colony or keeping concealed or away from his usual place of abode may be indebted: Provided also that the receipt of the person so authorized as aforesaid shall be a good discharge to any tenant or other person for all moneys paid by him and acknowledged in such receipt to be paid.
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# Destitute Persons Act 1846/Section 18

Party liable for payment may be detained in custody.
18.If the amount of arrears so adjudged to be due as aforesaid shall not immediately be paid, it shall be lawful for such Justices at their discretion to order the person liable for the payment thereof to be detained in safe custody until return can conveniently be made to any warrant of distress to be issued for the levying of any such arrears, unless he shall give sufficient security to the satisfaction of the said Justices for his appearance before two Justices on the day which may be appointed for the return of such warrant of distress, such day not being more than seven days from the time of taking any such security.
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# Destitute Persons Act 1846/Section 13

Misbehaviour of apprentice and ill-usage of master.
13.Upon the complaint of any master or mistress of the misbehaviour of any such apprentice, or upon the complaint of any such apprentice of ill-usage by the master or mistress, it shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace to hear and determine the same in a summary way, and the party offending shall on conviction forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five pounds.
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# Destitute Persons Act 1846/Section 14

Articles to be cancelled in certain cases.
14.If it shall appear to such Justice on any such complaint that there is or has been habitual ill-usage by the master or mistress, or incorrigible misconduct in the apprentice, it shall be lawful for such Justice to make an order cancelling the articles of apprenticeship.
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# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/11th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 31

Chap. XXXI.—An Act to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and for returning the surveys thereon to the Secretary of the department of War.
Act of June 9, 1794, ch. 62. Act of May 10, 1800, ch. 55. Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 30. Act of March 19, 1804, ch. 33. Act of 1807. Act of March 21, 1808, ch. 37. Act of 1810. Act of July 5, 1813, ch. 7. Act of 1814. Act of 1818. Act of 1821. Act of 1823. Five years allowed to obtain warrants and complete locations, and seven years to return the surveys.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on continental establishment, their heirs or assigns, entitled to bounty lands within the tract reserved by Virginia, between the Little Miami and Sciota rivers, for satisfying the legal bounties to her officers and soldiers upon continental establishment, shall be allowed a further term of five years, from and after the passage of this act, to obtain warrants and complete their locations, and a further term of seven years, from and after the passage of this act as aforesaid, to return their surveys and warrants, or certified copies of warrants to the office of the secretary of the war department, any thing in any former act to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, that no locations as aforesaid, within the above mentioned tract, shall, after the passing of this act, be made on tracts of land for which patents had previously been issued, or which had been previously surveyed; and any patent which may nevertheless be obtained for land located contrary to the provisions of this section, shall be considered as null and void.
Approved, March 16, 1810.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/11th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 3

Chap. III.—An Act extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants.
Act of June 9, 1794, ch. 62. Act of March 21, 1808, ch. 37. Act of July 5, 1813, ch. 7. Secretary of War may issue certain military land warrants. Where to be located.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be authorized to issue military land warrants to such persons as have or shall, before the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, produce to him satisfactory evidence of the validity of their claims; which warrants, with those heretofore issued and not yet satisfied, shall, and may be located in the names of the holders or proprietors thereof, prior to the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, on any unlocated parts of the fifty quarter townships and the fractional quarter townships, reserved by law for original holders of military land warrants.
Approved, December 19, 1809.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/11th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 34

Chap. XXXIV.—An Act providing for the better accommodation of the General Post-office and Patent Office, and for other purposes.
Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 357, sec. 7. Act of March 3, 1839. President authorized to buy or to cause to be built a house for the accommodation of the general post-office, &c City post office, and those of superintendent and surveyor of the city to be removed. Fire-proof rooms to be erected in the public offices west of the President’s house. Appropriation.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and hereby is authorized to erect, or procure by purchase, a building suitable for the accommodation of the general post-office, and of the office of the keeper of the patents, in such situation, and finished in such manner, as the interest of the United States and the safety and convenience of those offices respectively, and the arrangement of the models in the patent office shall, in his opinion, require.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United ​States be, and hereby is authorized to cause the city post-office, and the offices of the superintendent and surveyor of the city of Washington, to be immediately removed from the public building west of the President’s house; and that he cause to be built within the said public building, as many fire-proof rooms as shall be sufficient for the convenient deposit of all the public papers and records of the United States, belonging to, or in the custody of the state, war or navy departments.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be appropriated for the purposes expressed in this act, out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 28, 1810.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/11th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 29

Chap. XXIX.—An Act to allow the benefit of drawback on merchandise transported by land conveyance from Newport to Boston, and from Boston to Newport, in like manner as if the same were transported coastwise.
All goods imported into Boston and Newport which shall be conveyed by Rhode Island bridge and Taunton, or exported by the same routes from Boston, shall be entitled to the benefit of a drawback upon exportation to a foreign port.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all goods, wares and merchandise, duly imported into either of the ports of Boston and Newport, which shall be transported by land conveyance from the port of Newport, by the way of Rhode Island bridge and Taunton, to Boston; or from Boston, by the same route, to Newport, and which being imported into Newport, shall be exported from Boston: or which being imported into Boston shall be exported from Newport, shall be entitled to the benefit of a drawback of the duties upon exportation, to any foreign port or place, under the same provisions, regulations, restrictions and limitations, as if the said goods, wares and merchandise were transported coastwise from one to another of the said districts; and on the proviso that all the provisions, regulations, limitations and restrictions existing in case of goods, wares and merchandise, transported by any of the routes mentioned in the seventy-ninth section of the act, entituled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,”Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22. passed the second of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, shall be duly observed.
Approved, April 25, 1810.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/11th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 33

Chap. XXXIII.—An Act providing for the printing and distributing of such Laws of the United States, as respect the Public Lands.
Laws, &c. relative to the public lands to be collected and published. March 3, 1845.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to cause to be collected into one volume and arranged, the several laws of the United States, resolutions of the Congress under the confederation, treaties and proclamations that have operation and respect to the public lands: and to cause twelve hundred copies to be printed, one of which shall be transmitted to each of the existing land boards of commissioners for settling land claims, and a copy to each of the registers and receivers of public monies of the several land-offices of the United States; and the residue of the said copies shall be preserved for the future disposition of Congress.
Approved, April 27, 1810.
# Destitute Persons Act 1846/Section 20

Persons about to abscond may be arrested.
20.In case any person who may be bound by any such order as aforesaid shall attempt to remove from the Colony, it shall be lawful for any two Justices of the Peace, on the application of any officer appointed by the Governor to act in that behalf, to cause such person to be arrested and to be detained in safe custody until he shall give security, to the satisfaction of such Justices, for the due performance of such order, or shall make a composition for the same as hereinbefore provided: Provided always that no such arrest shall be made unless the person applying for the same shall make a direct and positive affidavit, to the satisfaction of such Justices, that such order is then in force and unsatisfied, and that he believes that the person bound thereby is about to remove from the Colony, and shall also show in such affidavit that there is probable cause for such belief.
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# Destitute Persons Act 1846/Section 7

And to make an order upon him for support of the child.
7.It shall also be lawful for such Justices, on being satisfied that any such putative father shall have refused to provide for the support of any such child, to make an order on the putative father for payment to the mother of the child, or to such other person as they may think fit, of a sum of money at a rate not less than two shillings nor more than ten shillings per week, at such times and in such manner as they may direct, for the support of such child: Provided always that in every case where it shall appear to the Justices that the mother of any such illegitimate child is able to contribute to its support, it shall be lawful for them to direct that she shall so contribute as well as the father in such proportions respectively and in such manner as such Justices shall think fit; and if in any such case it shall appear that the mother only is of such ability, it shall be lawful for the Justices to make an order in respect of her alone.
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# Destitute Persons Act 1846/Section 5

Power to Justice to summon party charged as the father of an illegitimate child.
5.On the complaint on oath made before any Justice of the Peace by the mother of any European or Half-caste illegitimate child, or on such complaint as aforesaid by any officer duly appointed to act in that behalf, that the father of such child hath refused to provide for its support, it shall be lawful for any two Justices to summon the party charged and to hear and determine such complaint in a summary way.
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# Destitute Persons Act 1846/Section 6

Power to two Justices to adjudge the party to be the putative father.
6.The parties being present, such Justices shall hear the evidence of the complainant and such other evidence as may be produced, and shall also hear any evidence tendered by the person alleged to be the father, and if the evidence of the mother shall be corroborated in some material particular by other testimony to the satisfaction of the said Justices, they may adjudge the man to be the putative father of such illegitimate child: Provided always that the evidence of the mother
of any illegitimate child shall not be necessary for the making of any such adjudication as aforesaid.
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# Destitute Persons Act 1846/Section 21

False statements.
21.Every person who shall wilfully make any false mis-statement on oath or affirmation in any proceeding before any Justice of the Peace under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour.
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# Destitute Persons Act 1846/Section 23

Interpretation.
23.For the purposes of this Ordinance every word importing the masculine gender shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a male, except where the context excludes such construction.
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# Destitute Persons Act 1846/Section 4

Persons deserting their wives or children to be liable to penalties.
4.Every person who shall unlawfully and without reasonable cause for so doing desert his wife, or who shall unlawfully desert any of his children under the age of fourteen years, and shall leave such wife or children without means of support, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five pounds for the first offence and any sum not exceeding ten pounds for a second or subsequent offence, to be recovered in a summary way. And it shall be lawful for any two Justices at their discretion to order any person so convicted also to pay towards the support of his wife or children, as the case may be, such sum of money at a rate not exceeding twenty shillings per week to such persons at such times and in such manner as the convicting Justices may direct.
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# Destitute Persons Act 1846/Section 3

​Power to two Justices to make an order for support.
3.It shall be lawful for such Justices, on being satisfied that the father or other relative is of sufficient ability to support such destitute person, to make an order on such father or other relative for payment towards the support of such person of a sum of money at a rate not exceeding twenty shillings per week to such person at such times and in such manner as the said Justices may direct, and such order from time to time to suspend alter vary or determine as to them shall seem meet.
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# Destitute Persons Act 1846/Section 2

Mode of proceeding.
2.On the information on oath of any respectable householder that any person is destitute and unable to support himself by his own labour, and that such person hath a father or other near relative as aforesaid within the Colony of sufficient ability to support such destitute person, it shall be lawful for any two Justices of the Peace to summon such father or other near relative and to hear and determine such information in a summary way.
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