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stoners ; and the breach, non-observance, or non-per-
formance thereof shall be punishable in like manner.
10. And be it further enacted, that every commis-
sioner and assistant commissioner shall, by virtue of
his respective office, and without any commission or
oath other than the oath hereinbefore directed to be
taken by every commissioner and assistant commis-
sionerl and whether qualified by estate or not, be and
he Untitled to exercise all the powers and functions of
a justice of the peace in all counties, liberties,
precincts, and places, whether privileged or not,
in England and Wales, in all matters
rhlat-
ing to -the administration of the laws for the
relief of the poor for the execution of this act ;
and all summonses `and warrants of every such Com-
missioner or assistant commissioner, as such justice,
shall run into and be obeyed and executed in all coun-
ties, liberties,precincts, and places, whether privileged
or not, in England and Wales ; and the said com-
missioners and assistant commissioners, and all per-
sons acting in execution of, or in obedience to, such
summonses and, warrants respectively, shall respec-
tively be entitled to all the protection and privileges
given by law to justices of the peace, and to officers
and others acting in execution of, or in obedience to,
the summonses and warrants, or under the authority
of such justices : Provided always, that no commis-
sioner or assistant commissioner shall act as a justice
of the peace in the enforcing or recovery of any pe-
nalty, or in the commitment of any person for any
offence against the provisions of this act, or in the or-
dering of relief as such justice ; and that nothing
herein contained shall authorise any such commis-
sioner or assistant commissioner to act as a justice of
the...peace at any general or quarter sessions of the
peace, or adjournment thereof, in any county, liberty,
precinct, or place.
11. And be it further enacted, that if any person,
upon any examination under the authority of this Act,
shall wilfully and corruptly give false evidence, or
make or subscribe a false declaration, or if any person
shall wilfully refuse to attend in obedience to any
summons of any commissioner, or assistant-commis-
sioner, or to give evidence, or shall wilfully alter, sup-
press, conceal, destroy, or refuse to produce any books,
deeds, papers, %ccoutts, and writings, or copies of the
same, which may. be so required to be produced before
the said commissioners or assistant-commissioners,
every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor.

12. And be it further enacted, that it shall be law-
ful for the said commissioners, in any case where they
see fit, to order and allow such expenses of witnesses,
and of or attending the production of any books, deeds
papers, accounts, or writings, or copies thereof, to or
before the said commissioners, or assistant-commis-
sioners, as such commissioners may deem reasonable,
or to be paid as follows--that is to say, out of the poor
rates of the respective parish or union, which, in the
opinion of the .said commissioners, shall be interested
or concerned in such attendance or production respec-
tively, in all cases in which such witnesses shall not go
or travel more than ten miles from the respective parish
or union which shall be interested or concerned as
aforesaid ; and in all other cases the expenses so or-
dered or allowed shall be deemed as part of the inci-
dental expenses attending the execution of this act,
and be paid accordingly. _

13. And be it further enacted, that from and after
the passing of this act, the administration of relief to
the poor throughout England and Wales, according
to the existing laws, or such laws (as) shall be in
force at the time being, shall be subject to the direc-
tion and control of the said commissioners; and for
executing the powers given to them by this act, the
said commissioners shall, and are hereby authorised
and required, from time to time, as they shall see oc-
casion, to make and issue all such rules, orders, and
regulations, for the management of the poor, for the
government of workhouses, and the education of the
children therein, and for apprenticing the children of
poor persons, and for the guidance and control of all
guardians, vestries, and parish officers, so far as {elates
to the management or relief of the poor, and the keep-
ing, examining, auditing, and allowing of accounts,
and making and entering into contracts in all matters
relating to such management or relief, or to any ex-
penditure for the relief of the poor, and for carrying
this act into execution in all other respects, as they
shall think proper ; and the said commissioners may,
at their discretion, from time to time, suspend, alter,
or rescind such rules, orders, and regulations, or any
of them Provided always, that nothing in this act
contained shall be construed as enabling the said com-
missioners, or any of them, to interfere in any indi-
vidual case for the purpose of ordering relief.
14. (New Clause.) And be it further enacted, that
no general rule of the said commissioners shall ope-
rate or take effect until the expiration of forty days
after the same, or a copy thereof, shall have been sent,
signed and sealed by the said commissioners, to one of
his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State ' - and if at
any time after any such general rule shall have been
so sent to such principal Secretary of State, his Ma-
jesty, with the advice of his Privy Council, shall dis-
allow the same or any part thereof, such general rule
or the part thereof so disallowed, shall not come into
operation, if such disallowance be notified to the said
commissioners at any time during the said period of
forty days ; but if such disallowance be made at any
time after that period, such disallowance shall by one
of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State be no-
tified to the said commissioners ; and from and after
such disallowance shall have been so notified, then
such general rule, so far as the time shall have been
so disallowed, shall cease to operate, subject, however,
and without prejudice to all acts and transactions un-
der or in virtue of the same, previously to such disal-
lowance having been so notified ; and no general rule,
or order, or regulation, shall be removed or removable
by writ of certiorari or otherwise, into any of his Ma-
jesty's Courts of Record.
14. And be it further enacted, that a written or
printed copy of every rule, order, or regulation of the
said commissioners shall, before the same shill come
into operation in any parish or union, be sent by the
said commissioners by the post, or in such manner as
the commissioners shall think fit, sealed or stamped
with their seal, addressed to the churchwardens and
overseers of such parish, the guardians of such union
or their clerk, and also to the clerk of the peace of the
county, and to the clerk to the justice of the petty
sessions held for the division in which such parish or
union shall be situate ; and such churchwardens, over-
seers, guardians, or their clerk, clerks of the peace,
and clerks to the justices aforesaid, are hereby required
to keep and preserve, notify, and give publicity to such
rules, orders, and regulations, in such manner as the
said commissioners shall direct, and also to allow every
owner of property or rate-payer in every such parish
or union to inspect the same at all reasonable times,
free of any charge for such inspection, and to furnish
copies of the same, being paid for such copies at and
after the rate of 3d. for every folio of seventy-two
words ; and in case any such churchwarden or overseer,
guardian, clerk, clerk of the peace, or clerk to the'
justices to whom such rules, orders, or regulations, or
copies thereof, shall be sent as aforesaid, shall neglect
to keep and preserve, notify, and give publicity to the
same in the mode prescribed or directed by the said
commissioners, or shall refuse such inspection, or to
furnish or allow such copies thereof to be taken as
aforesaid, every person so offending shall, for every
such offence, be subject and liable to a penalty not ex-
ceeding the sum of 101. nor less than 405., to be re-
coverable in the same manner as any penalties are by
this act directed to be recovered : Provided also, that
if any such rule shall, after the same shall have come
into operation, be disallowed in manner herein-before
Mentioned, then, and in every such case, the said com-
missioners shall send by the post, or in such a manner
as they shall think fit, to every parish or union affected
by the said rule, notice of such disallowance ; such
notice of disallowance to be addressed, kept, preserved,
notified, and publicly inspected, and copies thereof
furnished or allowed to be taken in such and the same
manner, and subject to the same penalties, as are here-
inbefore mentioned respecting the rules, orders, and
regulations of the said commissioners.
15. And be it further enacted, that except where
otherwise provided by this act, all the powers and
authorities given in and by a certain act of parlia-
ment passed in the 22d year of the reign of his late
Majesty King George 111., entitled " an act for the
better relief and employment of the poor," and in and
by a certain other act passed in the 59th year of the
reign of his said late Majesty, entitled " an act to
amend the laws for the relief of the poor ;" and all
acts for amending such acts respectively, and also all
the powers and authorities given by every other act of
parliament, general as well as local, for or relating to
the building, altering, or enlarging, of poorhouses and
workhouses, and to the acquiring, purchasing, hiring,
holding, selling, exchanging, and disposing thereof,
or of land whereon the same may have been or may
hereafter be erected, or of preparing such houses for
the reception of poor persons, and the dieting,
clothing, employing, and governing of such poor,
and the raising, or borrowing of the same, and all
powers of regulating and conducting all other work-
houses whatsoever, and of governing, providing for, and
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