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employing the poor therein, and all powers auxiliary
to any of the powers aforesaid, or in any way relating
to the relief of the poor, shall in future be exercised
by the persons authorised by law to exercise the
same, under the control, and subject to the rules,
orders, and regulations of the said commissioners ; and
the said commissioners and assistant commissioners
respectively, and every of them, shall be entitled to
attend at every parochial and other local board and
vestry, and take part in the discussions, but not to
vote at such bottrd or vestry Provided always that
nothing herein contained shall be construed to give
the said commissioners or assistant commissioners any
power to order or direct the building, purchasing,
hiring, altering, or enlarging of any workhouse, or the
purchasing or hiring of any land at the charge or -for
the use of any parish or union, save and except so far
as such powers are expressly given.
16. And whereas by the said act made and passed
in the 22d year of the reign of his late Majesty King
George 111., it is (among other things) enacted, that
the rules, orders, and regulations specified and con-
tained in the schedule thereunto annexed, should be
duly observed and enforced at every poorhouse or
workhouse to be provided by virtue of the said act,
with such additions as should be made by the justices
of the peace of the limit wherein such house or houses
should be situate, at some special session, provided
that such additions should not be contradictory to the
rules, orders, and regulations established by that act,
and provided that the same should not be repealed by
the justices at their quarter sessions of the peace ; and
it is expedient that such additions, or other rules,
orders, or regulations, under that or any local act,
should not in future be made without the sanction of
the said commissioners : Be it therefore enacted, that
no additions shall hereafter be made to the rules,
orders and regulations contained in the schedule to
the said recited act, and no rules, orders, and regula-
tions shall hereafter be made under the authority of
the said recited act, or any local act relating to poor-
houses, workhouses, or the relief of the poor, until the
same shall have been submitted to and approved and
confirmed by the said commissioners; and that the
same, when so confirmed, shall be legally valid and
binding upon all persons ; and the said justices. at
quarter sessions shall have no power to, repeal the
same.

17. And be it further enacted, that it shall be
lawful for the said commissioners, and they are hereby
empowered, from time to time when they may see fit,
by any writing under their hands and seal, by and
with the consent in writing of a majority of the
guardians of any union, or with the consent of a ma-
jority of the owners of property, entitled to vote as in
manner hereinafter prescribed, and rate-payers in any
parish, such last-mentioned majority to be ascertained
in manner provided in and by this act, to order and
direct the overseers or guardians of any parish or
union not having a, workhouse or workhousesy to build
a workhouse or workhouses, and to purchase or hire
land for the purpose of building the same thereon,
or to purchase or hire a workhouse or workhouses,
or any building or buildings, for the purpose of
being used as or converted into a workhouse or work-
houses ; and with the like consent to order and direct
the overseers and guardians of any parish or union
having a workhouse or workhouses, or any buildings
capable of being converted into a workhouse, to enlarge
or alter the same in such a manner as the said com-
missioners shall deem most proper for carrying the
provisions of this act into execution, or build, hire, or
purchase any additional workhouse or workhouses, or
any building or buildings for the purpose of being
used as or converted into a workhouse or workhouses,
or to purchase or hire any land for building such ad-
ditional workhouse or workhouses thereon, of such
size and description, and according to such plan, and
in such manner as the said commissioners shall deem
most proper for carrying the provisions of this act
into execution ; and the overseers and guardians to
whom any such order shall be directed, are hereby
authorised and required to assess, raise, and levy such
sum or sums of money as may be necessary for the
purposes specified in such order, by such power, ways,
and means as are now by law given to or vested in
such churchwardens and overseers or guardians of the
poor, for purchasing or hiring land, or for building,
hiring, and maintaining workhouses for the use of the
poor in their respective parishes or unions, or to bor-
row money for such purposes, under the provisions of
this or any other act or acts.

18. And be it further enacted, that for the better
and more effectually securing the repayment of any
sum or sums of money which may be borrowed for the
purposes aforesaid, with interest, it shall be lawful for
the said overseers or guardians to charge the future
poor-rates of such parish or union with the amount of
such sum or sums of money : Provided always, that
the principal sum or sums to be raised for such pur-
poses, whether raised within the year or borrowed,
shall in no case exceed the average annual amount of
the rates raised for the relief of the poor in such pa-
rish or union for three years, ending at the Easter
next preceding the raising of such money ; and that
any loan or money borrowed for any of the purposes
aforesaid shall be repaid by annual instalments of not
less than one-tenth of the sum borrowed, with interest
on the same in any one year.
19. And be it further enacted, that it shall be law-
ful for the said Commissioners, and they are hereby
empowered, without requiring any such consent as
aforesaid, by any writing under the hands and seal of
the said Commissioners, to order and direct the over-
seers or guardians of any parish or union having a
workhouse or workhouses, or any building capable of
being converted into a workhouse or workhouses, to
enlarge and alter the same according to such plan, and
in such a manner, as the said Commissioners shall
deem most proper for carrying the provisions of this
act into execution ; and the overseers or guardians to
whom any such order shall be directed, are hereby
authorized and required to assess, raise, and levy such
sum or sums of money as may be necessary for the
purposes specified in such order, by such powers, ways,
and means as are now by law given to, or vested in,
churchwardens and overseers, or guardians of the poor,
for altering, enlarging, and maintaining workhouses
for the use of the poor in their respective parishes or
unions : Provided always, that the principal sum or
sums to be raised for such purposes, and charged upon
any parish, shall not exceed in the whole the sum of
501., nor in any such case exceed one-tenth of the
average annual amount of the rates raised for the re-
lief of the poor in such parish for the three years end-
ing at the Easter next preceding the raising of such
money.
20. And be it further enacted, that it shall be law-
ful for the said Commissioners, by order under their
hands and seal, to declare so many parishes as they
may think fit' to be united for the administration of the
laws for the relief of the poor, and such parishes shall
thereupon be deemed a union for such Hrpose ; and
thereupon the workhouse or workhouses of such pa-
rishes shall be for the common use of the poor of such
united parishes in such workhouse or workhouses ac-
eordingly, and such poor may be received, maintained,
and employed in any such workhouse or workhouses,
as if the same belonged exclusively to the parish to
which such poor shall be chargeable ; but, notwith-
standing such union and classification, each of the
said parishes shall be separately chargeable with and
liable to defray the expense of such of its poor as maybe
received and maintained in any of the said workhouses.

MEETING OF THE CLERGY.--A requisi-
tion is in course of signature by the clergy to the
Archdeacon of York and the West Riding, desiring
him to call an early meeting of the clergy of his arch-
deaconry, to collect their sentiments upon the measures
now before the legislature, affecting the established
church of Great Britain and Ireland, and to express
the same in petitions to both houses of Parliament,
and in an address to the King's Most Excellent
Majesty; the requisition is intended to be presented
at the approaching visitation.—Leeds Intelligencer.

The Quarterly Review for June, just pub-
lished, makes the following remarks on Miss gdge-
worth's new novel " Helen." "If any of our readers
have ever listened to the envious whispers, so indefa-
tigably circulated among certain circles, to the effect,
that Miss Edgeworth's vein of creative fancy had been
buried with her father, " Helen" will undeceive them,
and vindicate that great and truly modest genius from
any such disparaging suspicion. As writers of a re-
flective and introspective turn advance in the walk of
life, they are likely to detach their imagination more
and more from the broad and blazing contrasts which
delight the eye and` heart of youth ; and it is no
wonder that the interest of this tale, put forth after an
interval of, we believe, nearly twenty years, should be
of a more sober cast than Miss Edgeworth chose to
dwell upon in some earlier works. But the interest
is not less potent on that account ; on the contrary,
we venture to say, that if any one will, after r.,ading
" Helen," turn to even the best of her old ncvAs, he
will feel, that in all the more profound and perma-
nently pleasing beauties of moral delineatioi, the
artist has made marked progress.