The Sun.
London, England, 1802-03-26 00:00:00

A BILL,

For the more efredually distinguishing and relieving of in-
dustrious Parish Poor;- and for the Regulation of Overseers
Accounts; and for the better prse;v4ng of the Lives of
• adjudged Bastards.

WitEir As it might tend greatly to the comfort
of the industrious Poor, and to the discouragement
of the idle and profligate, as well as to the reduCtion
of the Poors Rate, if Parishes were enabled to ap-
point and pay a fir Person to assist Overseers of the
Poor in the discharge of their office;
Be it enacted by theKi NC's Most Excellent MA.
JESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in
this present Parliament assembled, and by the au--
thority of the same, That it shall be-lawful for the
greater part in number and value (such value to be
ascertained by the last preceding Poors Rate) of
Parishioners of any Parish,' Township, or Place,
assembled at a meeting to he held for that purpose
in manner hereinafter directed, -to elect and nomi-
nate a Person, to be employed during the Overseers
year, to assist them in the discharge of their parish
duty, and to appoint a Salary to be paid him out of
the Parish Rates for such his service : Provided
nevertheless, that in case any Parishioners
rated and paying to the Poor of such Parish, &c. to
the amount of • a year each respedively
(to be ascertained by the last Rate) shall be dissa-
tisfied with the amount of the salary so appointed,
it shall be lawful for them jointly to appeal against
such allowance, to the justices assembled at the
Petty Sessions held for -the District in which such
Parish lies ; who shall finally settle the amount of
such salary, not however exceeding what shall have
been appointed at such Parish Meeting, and shall
certify the amount thereof in writing, signed by
them, which shall be deliverdd to the Overseers, or
one of diem.

And, for the greater notoriety of the calling of
such Parish Meeting, be it further enadcd, That.
upon the written request of one Overseer, or of
two Parishioners' paying to the Poor Rate, to the
Clerk of the Parish, or Person officiating for him,
to be made within from the nomination
and appointment of such Overseer, public Notice
shall be given in Church during Divine Service, on
the Sunday nest preceding such Meeting, by the
Parish Clerk, .or Person officiating for him, of the
tune and place for holding such Meeting, and the
purpose for which it is to be held ; which Meeting
shall be held in the forenoon of a day to be named in
such notice, not sooner than Tuesday nor later than
Thursday next after such notice.
Such Assistant Overseer, after he shall have been
eleeted to such office, and shall have accepted there-
of, shall have full power atitl'authority to do what-
soever it is lawful for an Overseer Of the Poor to dc,
in the execution of his office, except 'that he shal
not !Ave authority to make or sign the Poors Ratt
of such Parish or Township, which shall be made by
the other Oveiseers thereof, in like manner as if
such Assistant, Oyersier had not been appointed ;
and such AssiStalt, Overseer shall 'have the benefit
and ..proredion of all Laws to which the other
Overseers of the Poor are entitled; :•Erovided never.
theless, that nothing herein contained shall bede.em'
fr
ed to disable the other Overseers of the Poor from
doing whatever they might or might to have done
in case this Ad had never been made.

And, for the more speedy recover), of the Salary
of such Assistant Overseer, he it furtliej enaCted,
That such Salary shall be paid to him :within
after the expiration of the year
when the Overseers" go out of office, or in de-
fault thereof, that it shall be lawful for any Justice
of the Peace living in or near such Parish, to grant
a warrant of distress for levying the amount there_
of upon the goods and cads of the Overseers, or
any of them. •

In case such Assistant Overseer shall die during
his continuance in such office; it shall be lawful for
any Justice of Peace, living in or near such Parish,
Township,. or Place, to fix the proportion of the sa-
lary to be paid to his executors or administrators,
and to grant a warrant of distress for levying-the
same, in like manner as before is mentioned ; and
it shall be lawful to call another meeting of the Pa-
rishioners, in manner hereinbefore diretted, within
days from the death of such Assistant
OVerseer, to appoint, in like manner, another per..
son to assist the- Overseers ; and all the provisions
hereinbefore enaeled with respeti to the•appoint-
ment, salary, duties, and privileges of such succeed-
ing Overseer, shall apply to such succeeding Assist-
ant Overseer. •

And, whereas evils have arisen from suffering
Overseeers of the Poor to sell on their account to
the Parish, things wanting for the use thereof, and
to provide the Poor 'receiving parish relief with
goods or provisions furnished by the Overseers, or
one.of them, instead of money, and to charge them
to the account 'of the Parish, at such price as he or
they shall think fit ; whereby such Parish or Place
is often defrauded, and the Poor are oppressed ; be
it farther engled, that in no case (except as herein-
after provided for) shall it be lawful for any Over.
seer of the Poor, or Assistant Overseer, during the
time of his serving as such, direaly or indirealy
to sell to or' for the use of the Parish, Township,
or Place for •Whieb he serves, nor to derive any pro-
fit froth, or by means of the sale of any- article for
the use or employment or the Poor, or -for the fur-
nishini‘or• repairing of any house or building used
for Parish pUrpoSes ; nor to advance to any poor
person, as and for parish relief, any goods or pro.
visions from his own shop, or on his oWn account,
or make a profit therefrom, instead of money.; and
any such Overseer offending herein, being duly
convidedihereof, upon an information to be laid,
during tlwcontinuanbe--of the office. of such offen-
der,
.or within . , after .the, expiration
thereof, by any parishioner or person paying to the
Poots }We before any justices of the
Peace of the County, city, or Borough. where such
offence shall. haue been committed, shall forfeit and
pay treble the valve of the goods so sold or. advan-
ced, or of the wOfk..ilone .and 4naterials employed
therein, one half there'of to go.' to informer, and
the other half to be, paid to
_or' for the ,use of the

Parish, Township, or Place; to be levied, in de-
fault of payment thereof, by a warrant -of distress,
signed by a Justice of the Peace having jurisdielion
in such place, of the goods and chattels of such of-
fender : Provided nevertheless; that it shall be law-
ful for any Justices of the Peace living in
or near such Parish, &c. before the sale or furnish-
ing of such goods, or doing of such work, but nor
after, by license in writing, signed by such Justice
or Justices, to allow any such Overseer to sell or
furnish such goods, or do such work, so as that such
license state the ground of such permission, and the
necessity thereof.
Any person paying to the Poors Rate withi.,
such Parish or Place, shall be a good witness upon
such information.
And for the saving of expence in the removal of
paupers or others, under any order. of one or more
Justices of the Peace, it shall be lawful for the Over.
seers, or any of them; to- employ such person as they
shall think. fit, to _convey such pauper.or other per.
son under an 4 according to :such order, and to
charge the expence thereof (subjeet to the approba-
tion and allowance of the Auditors hereinafter men.
tioned) to the Parish Account.; and that the Over:
seers of The Parish, Township, or Place `to which
such poor person shall be removed aruier sbch order,
shall be. bound to receive such pauper as if he or
she was conveyed or delivered by the Overseers.
No money spent in eating or drinking by the
Overseers, except when travelling upon parish bu-
siness, shall, under any pretence, be chargeable by
them, or any of them, to the Parish Account.
And for the better controulini of Overseers, and
detecting any frauds or errors therein, it shall be
lawful for the greater number and value (to be as.
certained by the next preceding Ra.te) of Parishion-
ers present at such Parish Meetings (whether they
appoint an Assistant OVerseer or not), to nominate
and appoint one ofmore person or per3ons, whereof
the Rector, Vicar, or Curate residing in the Pdrish,
shall be one (if lie shall chuse to accept such office)
to audit and examine the Accounts of the overseers

of such Parish, and of such Assi.Stant Overseer, four
times at least in every year; that is to say, once
on the 'once on the once.on---the •
and once at any period within days after the
Overseers shall have gone out of office, or as near
Such dayS and times as conveniently may be, and
oftener if they shall think fit ; and such Auditors
or Auditor shall have full power and authority to
appoint such time and place, within such Parish,
Township, or Place, as he or they shall chose, for
.examining and passing such Accounts, and shall
have power to examine such Overseer, upon oath,
upon "any matters relating to such Accounts, which •
shall appear to him or them to be : necessary, to
judge of the truth or reasonableness of any of the
charges therein, and shall allow,. disallow, or mo-
derate any charges or irems in such Account ; and in
case any part thereof shall consist of law charges,
paid or to be paid by them, or any of them, the bills
paid or to be paid, shall be produced before any al-
lowance shall be made to them, or any of them, in
resped of such payments or payment, and the Audi-
tor cm- Auditors, if they think fit, shall 'be at liberty
to deliver, or cause such bills to be delivered to the
•Clerk of the Peace for the County within such
Parish, Township, or Place shall be, or to his
Deputy, to tax the same, and who shall tax and
return such bills, within days from the receipt
. thereof, signed by him, and no more shall be al_
Towed to the Overseers, than the amount of .such
taxed bills or bill ; and there shall be allowed to
such Auditor or Auditors respectively, for the trou-
ble he or they shall have during the year in auditing
such Overseers Accounts in manner hereinbefore di_
rested, the sum of each; and there shall beal-
lowed and paid to the Clerk of the Peace or his
Deputy and. no more, for the trouble of tax-..
ing each bill, and' certifying the amount thereof
when taxed, to such Auditor or Auditors ; which
several allowances shall be paid' by the Overseers
for the time being, and shall be retained by them
out of the Poors Rate •colteded within such Parish,
Township, or place :- provided nevertheless, that it
shall be lawful •for the said Overseers, or for any
'Parishioners paying -to such Poors Rate
yearly at least respetfively, within - days
from the passing of the 'said-Accounts by the'Audi_
tor or Auditors, to appeal to the Petty Sessions
held for the distrid in which such Parish, ToWn-
.
ship, or Place lies, against the • allowance, dis-
allowance, or moderating of any item in such
Accounts, whose judgment thereon shall be final ;
and it shall be lawful for the Justices at such Petty
Sessions to examine any of the parties to such ap-
peal, or any witnesses whom. they or any of them •.
may produce,- upon oath, as to the matter of such -
Accounts.

The Accounts to be passed shall be delivered by
the Overseers, signed by him or them whose account
it purports to be, to the Auditors, or one of them,
full days before the time liereit)before
limited for auditing such Accounts, whereof notice
shall be given- in writing, fixed upon the church
door, Within days after delivering after
delivering such Accounts, and of•the time and place
for auditing the same; at whiCh it 31i'all be lawful
for any Parishioner paying to the said Rates to be
present.

And whereas it would tend greatly td prevent
frauds, and to controul any improper expenditure•
of the Parish Rates; especially in large and popu-
lous Polishes, if the Accounts thereof were kept
under such distindlieads as the local'circumstances
of any Parish, Township, or Place might require ;
it shall be lawful for the Auditors appointed under
this. Aa, to deliver or cause to be delivered to the
Overseers, a written form or plan of account, con-
taining so many and such.different heads or titles of
expenditure, as may appear' to him or them to be
necessary or proper to shew the amount of the ex-
penditure under each head or: title ; and such Over.
scers,shall keep the Accounts of the Expenditure•of
the Rates of the Parish in such form as is prescribed
by the Auditor or Auditors in manner aforesaid ;,
and in default thereof, it shall not be lawful for the
Auditor or Auditors to allow to the Overseers cre-
dit fot any payment made by-them, or any of them,
which is not brought to account according to the
fOirn, -and under, the head or title to which it ap_

pears to them to belong: Provided nevertheless,
chat if any objection shall he made by the Overseers
to the keeping of their Accounts in the manner pre-
scribed by ,iuch 'Auditor or 'Auditors, it shall be
lawful for them or any of them, within
days from the delivery of such plan to them or one
of them, but • not later, to appeal therefrom to the
justices assembled at the Petty Sessions held for the
District in which such Parish, ThwnShip, or Place
lies, who shall then and there finall decide thereon,
and shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the
Overseers, such written plan or form of contract as
to them shall seem meet ; and in either case a dupli-
cate of the form directed, shall be delivered to or
retained by the Auditors, to Ix: preserved until after
all the Overseers Accounts shall have been passed; and
the Overseers of every succeeding year shall keep and
pass their Accounts in like manner, until the form
thereof shall be altered by the Auditors or Petty
Session, on appeal in like manner as hereinbefore is
directed, after which such new form of keeping the
Parish Accounts shall be observed, and under the
like penalties, conditions, and limitations as herein-
before are directed.

(To be continued.)

Yesterday se'nnight a race was run three miles and
a half over the country and back again, between the
lion. BERKLEY CRAVEN'S black horse. Kettle,
and Mr. IVIADoocK's bay horse Hotspur, for fifty.
guineas a side, which was won by the former in a
canter : Kettle performed the distance in twenty,
two minutes, beating Hots.pur• nearly a Mile ; they
started in Coombe Fields, near Lutterworth, and
went round a post in a field adjoining Newnhluri
PaddOck: the black horse is supposed to have gone
thedistance over the country quicker than ever it
was done before, as he went at the rate'of nearly
twenty miles an hour.

On Monday evening, as: Mr. S. GI LEs, a trades
man in Oxford-road, was returning to town from
Dartford, and vvalking his, horse gently up,Shoot-
er's hill, two men jumped out :of an avenue leading
to the wood, and seized his horse's reins, demand—
ing his, money, while -one of them presented his
pistol, swearing if he hesitated a moment he would
blow his brains out. Mr. GILEs instantly. gave
them his pocket-book, 'containing three. al. Bank
of 'England notes, besides 9S. 'in silver, with which
they made off, taking the road towards Plumstead:

• Two-thirds of those who purchased Tick.ets.or
Shares before the Drawing cornrifenced, have iciSt all
chace, of the. Capital Pliiel4, owing to their staying'
in so contrary. to ail calculation ;'but those whO
purchase -Tickets or Share'snoW;lfave an iinined iate'
prospta of success,' as iS ImpOssible for the Capital
Prizes to remain much longer, there being three'of
20,0001. two of t 0,0001.. two of 20001. six of
toool. :Sic. ;and the Lottery --tiWo.,thirds over': the
chance of a Capital prize now . is three to one
better than before the Lottery' commenced; and
Tickets are under Twenty Guineas ! !

ThV Ticket, No.' 19,488; in the 'present LOt.
tery," araiv yesterday .a Prize of wool—and N.
zo,ol, a Prize of 100°i..were sold and registered
at the old Office of Sw iy-r.aritiCcif. No. 11; Poultry,
where. Tickets and Shares...wntinue on sale,,
ranted undrawn. • - -

the Cordial Balm of Gilead has beeri administer-
ed in. Nervous Complaints with uncommon success ;
in Asthma, Consumption, Flatulence, Relaxation,
Obstro!'tion or Bilious . Disorders, it stands pre.
eminent ; its effeets are pleasingly quick, certain,
and lasting. The Balm of Gilead instantaneously re.
lieves Spasms.in the Side, Breast, and Intestines,
diffuses a genial warmth, and prevents Cramps and
Numbness in or after bathing in.spring or sea-water.
Ladies of a cold, acrid, or bilious habit of body, af-
fdled with languor, headach, or, hysterical affec-
tions, cannot have recourse. to a more salutary re_.
medy than the Cordial Balm of Gilead. To Gen-
tlemen from the East or West Indies ; the Stiitierit
from pUblic seminaries, or those* whose occupations'
require a sedentary life, are particularly addressed
by Dr. Solomon, whose Coidill Balm.of Gilead has
effeaed such wonderful cures in cases of debility,
originating from heat of climate, orzelaxation from
juvenile indiscretions, and the effeas of intense ap-
plication to study or business.