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trent of authority thus left 10 the Magistrate. /fte coedit.
'venire wee, that ■ great emeiber of Atte tette pulsed
to prevent the operation of that statute of Chattel 11.
A samba, •of statutes had also rimed to intetrept
the modes et obtkising a settlemeet.. By (use, see
were revisited from seqairieg settleteest except they bid
bees is one piece for three yearn; by soother, appreotime •
were allowed settlement; by • third, it required a peculiar
spectra of Moment to obtain ft. 'f his eras-tot' all. The
Comets of Coalmen Law, hisensely zealous for the peones
Lion of the people, sought to mitigate the rigour of the Sta.
Inte.book, and granted relief wherever • proper case of
exception could be made out. There was Nothing of th
legislative character very remarkable from the Act eat
Chine. 11. till 1898, she. application helot made to Pm:
'lament on the evils of the poor laws, the subject was te
Erred to the Bottrd of Trade, of which Mr. Locke ohs
member, who drew op a Report on the 'object. It stated
the complaint. respectisg the lueresse of the poor sod of the
tax for maintaining them were now Do getters' that they
could no luster be doubted. The Report west on to state
that the same completed had been frequent dung the two
last reigns—thet the cause was not to be looked fur iii the
want of employment, or the dearness of provisions, God
bevies been very good is those 'hints to the Ruttish nation,
bet in the relaxation of discipline and industry, end so us.
This Report was followed up by an Act to limit the opera-
tion of the 13th end 14th of Charles 11. la the Bth and 9th
of King William. the Act was posed which allowed the poor
to pin a sentiment by eertilleate.—urhe Hon. °evoking.
recited some portion of the preemble.)—The Act, as be said
before, was twined to do sway the raischievoes effects of
that of eliathis 11. The certificate gave the power if miles.
tau, and restrained that of compoloory removal. Having
brumrht the subject thus far, be rem came to the
Act 38th Gee. 11l which had doe. more good then any Act
passed wishis kie recolltetion. He well remembered the
difficulty which his (need Sir E. Hyde East Ind in roweling
that Bill forward. Petition. poured is from all parts of the
cusetry, mid he eras obliged to yield for • bug time to the
opposition against him. The power of removal was deemed
essential to the iaterents of property. It was argued,
that if perms* were allowed such and such right of
contieuswee, they would be nabbed to pin settlement,
and all sorts of evils were sulicipsted from the measure.
The oppositioss to it was se strong that be was obliged to
leave • cleave empowering the removal of women pregnant
with bastard (hitches, and a more pernicious sad odious
ensile coon Dot have been added. The effect of all this
was greatly I. increase the whole charge of maintaining the
poor. He would snake ibis plain. The House were .warm
of the greet expeares of litigation under the pretest
statutes. Doctor Berns bad declared it to be his opiates
that the statute of Charles 11. bad caused • Creator nem.
her of disputes and !liftmen's than aey other ever did
in the country. The Darter allseled to the expenses of liti-
gation in the Court of Kiaeri Beach. That wee a colander-
able branch of expose., bet it wee the smallest portion of the
whole. The greeter scene of parities were set is motion
45 least once • year. Oa se average of three rare, by rt.
*eras made to the Hum-Oben were 327„00e1. • year spot
be mita et the Wearier keel...; bat to this moot be added
ate time mid labour expended, which weever% market. of value
es moth as the money spat. But the shied tied greatest
portion of the asperse was not yet sexed. If a poor
ens were compelled to mk only Is. relief for tree of bee
ithildren, it would be a stiSicieu pretext fur removing him,
sod sit his family, no matter from what Internee they engin
have Mae. Same particular calamity might hue *vectoring'
hiss, which s little time would remove. Isetead of wheel%
his origissi parish must be charged with the urine of
removing and nientantieg him and all his family, to save
the parish of bus residence 2s. 8.1., and it would be
a hundred to see against him that his labour world be
'needed when he was going. This had bromine experience of
the practice of tanartsr tiessioes is early life.. He left it to
Members better acquainted wkla it 5. my *bait was the can
at present. The footle of the peril ie ter wiliet this pow Ina*
might be removed, 11•11141 be fretmeatly ismain to moisten
him ' • be would Ise tell Pop front .14 its. armee loos he, bed
formed. If he attempted sop he woe liable to Ise taken up
as a variant thei maims[ he paned the hoscids of hie partaits
All this cos proved to belbe fact by the member of appeal.
en cases of tentovab Thus were the poor dvswis frost than
places where there use neither labour nor maintenance foe
ahem, to other places where there were miner labour mar
sianitenanee. Now PO observe non this operated on the rir.
*elation of labour. If any one were to propose a law for al.
bwing parish officen to meet say supplies of traits appeoceb.
log their bousdirin, mid resist then entrance &mune the
Men wan not produced sithis the parish, would slot such a
kiegieer be considered • Many for his pains ? He then
tubed this quertion—Why would the House exercise • harsher
wilt oiler the lesser of the pour, Wick was as much
their pesperty r Me articles of produce topes which they
tome bid oat? He pointed out the veep unequal diatri-
hellos of labour beenclit shout by these lawe—proved
by the different proportions ors the amount of the poor
fates, and the very different wages of fibour. hire; as
to the differesee in the warisof labour in differeut counties;
Is Sussex. fium Is. to 9s. a neck ; in Lamamer, (rural bs. to
Illo; is Surrey more Ass Sussex, the meighbomingeoanty.
It was often difierwrit: is joixioie parishes. lii •Ilthrordshirs
parish wages wile osly 3s. All these dispel inn proved the
want of fore eirestatios fur lobar. Them fur the amount
of rates . The umlaut of there years in Sewn Was
976,131101, the papslaties being 190.000. lo Leicester,
the ante average wes. 911;730f., for • population of
1111111,390, heist 40,0001 bus for fuser times the puoulailoo.
11041NNICX tie onsuatut of the property retorsed under assets.
tweeter to the Phuperty Teti was 916;3441, per sinew to
Leacteabire it win 3,067,7741. So that its Lancashire, where
trowel* .umber of large manufacturing towas,the property
wee lateen, soil the populailue was larger, the assessment so
pour rates was lower considerably than its where the
property wee chiefly •getrilltsii al, the wenn being fetter and
antallen, soil the populasioa Its,. And the same was the
ease greenfly in the counties throughout the Murton, ; when.
ever there were !rime loose and the bulk of the property
wan in manufarteree, the poor rst.s were lower in pro
parrliOn than where the property was less and vested tit
seticalture. That was cutter, to the principle of the
Act of Elizabeth, whirl, required that the property of every
district should be assessed tower& the melrdeunte
of the. poor •ecussliog to its ability, anal authurieed the OS.
gistridee to call en- the adjacent distriet;to contribute, entre
arty parish was unable to malstsie its own poor. The erase
ofall this evil was to he (timid in the removal of the peer.
If they prevented the poor (runt removing wherever they
could find ensptoymeot for their blioar, thetikprived them
of that to winch ovary min had a right--seenrity in the es-
jorneot of his property; the labour of the pour man being
his only prop' rty. Ho knew • parish wherein there were
twenty. fiva able-bridled wont; Kir whom there (-mid be
found au employment in the porch, end who trete dom.
fine deriviiip support from the pour rates. The overseen.
were sited, Why, •it the meis were able to work, if
ereploynseot could be found tor them in that parish, they did
not scud them to (Ober places wheat- work might be hail
Their answer war, the men were *roiled there, and if they
sect them to ether plecn in seeirchof wick, the moment
they emcee of employ sod lediserd"to the necessity of sp.
Orme for. relief to the pariah in they might happen
leer, they would be sent bath again, and their parish would
been to pay the *uprose of the 'entomb Besides *kith,
some woold ray they had • right to ietnaiti where they were,
and gonad 'Muse to go. There was another evil which anew
vote or the preveatiori or the decollation of labour, Weil It
riloW vet hare escaped the observation of Gentletraghtllhat
House lied gone on pretty ;wresting of late yeah.-lie
RIVIlli the eneourameient it gam to the per toisatertide

the idhr of • riiht au Uwisimtasuce from the pariah. That
WAS a aMaral /tllOOl &OM SISCiI 3 spleen. If they preempted
the poor two going wherever they could find enepliimmeat for
theirtalmar,. the poor had a right to lora rowed epos dorm
■ud say," Theo lust hare a right sortioide as sabaistmeee."
blasayGemismem amused to his NOWA stsremed, and giuwed.
lessly alarmed, a he conclired, at the idewof great 'mischief
rcsidtiogfrusis tiw pour beiwg allowed is wade► from place
to Mute. The, truili ate. the poor had oat suiEriessfaci.
Hue afforded them is removing fur the premise of bettering
there tuedisi•L 11 proper facilities were afforded to a poor
ma to Doom ott a ces.atioo of romployment ie the place
*hawk Rd beep living, he "mold go oe until he found
*orb. Ili i 11..., that would got be to ilicourage vageawcy ;
fbr if alrsam Were ditected IQaetiaing aseildirity, he•rnul4
silt! be postildied. Hinieg occupied au Much of the time *of