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POLITICAL. ESSAYS. with SKETCHES
of PUBLIC CHARACTER&
By W I LLIA M lIAZLITT.
" COMP, fir4F the csertails—shrw Ilie picture,"
Printed for William Hone. Leolpte.bilt.

POO It LAWS.
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REPORT. 1819:

The Cgmmittre appointe'd to reetsidet of the Poor TAW*,
and to report their observations tbereapoes, from lime to
time, to the House; hare, pursuant to the (Mitre firm?
frinusr, rasmineil the matters in them referred; and hare

Jeered to the fullowitig Report .
The further consideration of the I.ews for the Relief of
the Poor, and of the practical application of them. has
eroded In confirm. in the opinion of your Committee. the
correctness of that .riew of the ',object which was take. by
the Committee in the year 1817, and the toonsltters of the
principles which were then stated in • their Report; to that
document, therefore, your Committee would rather refer
than repeat a devilled antennae' of the evil which most be
necessarily Inherent in any system which undertakes to pen.
vide for the indigent by a compulsory coatriltutde from the
fonds accrontilated by the industry of others, abet of the
ageravation of that evil by a lax or mistakes exention of
the law. The conitideration, that •peterille of two centuries
had dared since the system was eatablisheil, that it had
operated in the mean time, and latterly with augmented
force, upon the habits, the pursuits, the feelings, and the
went donsituy, of a large class of the community, induced
that Committee to attempt to correct, is the first instance,
else administration of the law ; and to consider such means
as might, by their gradual operstloa, effect a intuition to •
better order of things, and revive those habits of industry
and frugality, which a reliance upon an indiscriminate
parish support, must necessarily impair,Meey consequently
recommended to the House, and the Legislature has air,
evaded, various provisions for the better administration of
Ads system. Revelations have been prescribed for the roe-
dget of Parish Vestrier, with a view of seeming a more
efficient control over that expenditure, which is become an
'large in its .moult as to require the vigilant attention of
those moat totemic.' in the welfare Of the parish ; a weight
therefore has beds given to the rendes rated, proportioneo,
in some elegree,lte the magnitude of their respeetive eon-
trihntious7
In pomilon's places, however, the numbers eif which, that
body is composed hens; too great for theißeaveident
cberge of complicated and detailed liminess, power has been
given to the Vestry at large of choosing a select body, oe
selvage new authority is coeferred, and 'melee who* dine.
ids the Akers of the pariah are to ad in the glemagessed
and relief of the poor. Their proceedings and orders are
moreover out subject to the control of a single Magistrate.
It has been also specially enjoined, that both the select Yes:
try and Magistrates, la determining the nature and quantity
of relief required in particular cases, shall take into their
itinsitlerat ion the character and conduct of the applicant, in
order that the same .measure of relief may not be 'minute,'
to the wants arising from unavoidable miefortnne on the
one hand, and from idleness and extravagance on the
other ; it being important that the express words of the law
should Inn the duty of such discrimination so longer
doubtful.
It haa been also provided, for the better exentlime of the
office of overseer in particular cases, that the Vestry may
appoint an assistant sir assistants, with an adequate salary.
This provision arose from the inconvenience resulting from
the office of overseer being I, and the injustice of ex.
tending beyond that period a burden that often requires the
unrequited sacrifice of his whole time soul private interests.
But a perdu so selected, and remunerated for this task, may
he required to devote his whole time to the service of the
parish, and may be expected to become, from a continuance
in office, accurately acquainted with the duties be has to
diet-barge. A more correct adherence to the law, and an
tutiformity in the system of management, may therefore be
anticipated from such an appointment, which, under annual
officers, without a select Vestry, may well he wanting.
To these provisions have been added others 10 guard
against evasion is the payment of rates, and adtiest the
frauds of prisons who seek to derive aid from the parish
while they are in the receipt of other means of subsistence.
It having bees foetus, essential to make such provision
against bestowing ou one man the property of old's, with-
out that reason which doge ran jostify such ass act—the
plea of absolute necessity. The advance of relief, by way
of loan only, there is reason to hope will he rootlet beneficial,
by affording timely aid in some instances, and diseusrag.
ing, in other', the applications of those whose earnings
have bees Improvidently did extravagantly wasted.
Tb. lonia! alteration of the law of Settlement, as far as
it respects the renting of tenements, which has also been
effected, will endoebteally have placed that part of the low
on a more redonable awl simple footing; and while it Ilion-
mishits the endless litigation respecting the emu's anal value
of the Indeed, will nu longer lee an obstacle to the arum,
modatime which may be afforded in some instances to a poor
family, by reeling the pasturage of a row, or some other
temporary profit from the occupation of land.
Other enacimeota of minor importance will he found in
the Act of this Session, which it is unnecessary here to de-
tail: but in additive to to these, there are souse expedients,
which your Committee are cushiest to recommend, and
which either do not absolutely require, or do not perhaps
admit of any legislative itijiinei ion ; such ai establishisig a
prescribed form fur keeping parochial actionnts, and giving
to them periodical publicity; by which the amount of ex-
peeditere will belied' under Its proper heed, and any illegal
or unnecessary disbursements will be brought to lighenad
corrected. Printigg add diatrihntiog still more (medially,
lists, which the vestry is now booed by law to make aut.*,
the/181E4V 0(.101 those who at any time receive relief, and
on .bat account, ii a practice which has prevailed lately to
many populous parishes, and with the teat effect; and
year Committee therefore
.have *Adding this Report, as
eligible ford in which these accounts and lists may be exist-
hind, in the hope that this practice may be very gear-
rally adopted, even without a compuloory duicanent, to
which, however, it may yet be wise to resort; and further,
to direct that the clerk of each subdivision meeting
of Magistrates shoghl firm an abstract of the total expeose
incurred in each year, for the support of the poor within
such subdivision, sled retorts the same to the clerk of the
peace of the county at the odd ~sing Quarter Seeded,
who should be required to publish sods abstracts from all
the subdivisions of the twenty annually, together with the
amount of thargenif each gobdivialog in the preceding year,
so n• to afford a oompontive view of the digitisation or le-
ered, of each respectively; and should make an mound
rental of the aggregate equine of each county to the fem
ereeary of Slate for the.lllune Department, for the purpose
of twigging the Mani sodas tbs slew of Partitionist.
In order to reedit litigalido la cases of removal, a prot-
ein has bee. is some baslasoss adopted by Magistrates of
atorlog a eormosiestiosti M boo ale personally, or by letter
(*Melt it would be ontiremoly Saadi to regulate by law), to