The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-18 00:00:00

SELECT VESTRY.-TIIESDAY

After some discussion, the bill for £75 10s., sent in by
Mons. Huguenin for fitting up a gymnasium at the In-
dustrial Schools, was ordered to be paid.
James Martindale was appointed to the situation of re-
lieving officer, at a salary of £lO5, he giving a bond to the
amount of £2OO.

A letter from the poor-law commissioners, approving
of the recent appointment of relieving officers, was read;
so also was a letter from Mr. Twistleton, assistant poor-
law commissioner, announcing that William Rees had
been elected to the office of auditor for this district.
Mr. Walker, the late auditor, sent in an abstract of
the parochial accounts for the last half-year, and stated,
that the additional collectors appointed some time since
tad well succeeded in getting in the rates, and that an
improved system of keeping the accounts had been

matured.
Mr. HENDERSON called attention to an edict issued by
the poor-law commissioners, to the effect that, in inden-
tures of apprenticeship, the circumstances attending the
life of the party bound should be stated at length ; for
instance, whether he had been imprisoned or transported,
or whether he was illegitimate. Mr. H. strongly de-
nounced the edict, said it was infamous, and that, without
doing any good whatever, it might inflict a serious injury
on the apprentice through after life.
Mr. BREMNER said the filling up of the indentures
seemed at present to be a vexata questio throughout the
kingdom.
At the suggestion of Mr. EARLF,, it was agreed that
the board should remonstrate with the poor-law commis-
sioners on the subject, and either ascertain their reasons
for having the insertion made, or procure some alteration.
Mr. and Mrs. Gardner, master and mistress of Nor-
wood School, were appointed to the infant-school at
Kirkdale, at a salary of £lOO per annum, with board and

lodzing.
Mr. BREMNER brought forward his motion, of which
he had given notice, on the necessity of an alteration in
the mode of administering relief to the poor. He entered
at great length into the subject, contending that a change
bad lately been introduced—that the sick cases were not
kept in a separate book, and that the relieving officer bad
power to stop a card on his own responsibility, a power
which ought to be in the hands of the board. He con-
cluded by submitting a resolution embracing the follow-
ing points :—That the sick cases be kept in a separate
book, and be not granted cards, but on'_y relief from week
to week ;—that in those cases the relieving officer's book
and the medical certificate be received weekly ;—that no
relieving officer should stop any card or relief on his own
responsibility ;—that a report of such cases as he thought
ought to be stopped be laid before the quorum ;—and that
it be an instruction to the Finance Committee to inquire
and report as to the necessity of increasing the number
of relieving officers.
Mr. HENDERSON seconded the motion.
Mr. FERGUSON complained that the board had been
taken completely by surprise, and suggested that the con-
sideration of the matter be allowed to stand over for a

week.
Mr. URQUHART contended that the present plan was a
decided improvement upon the former one, and that unless
Mr. Bremner could show some evil had arisen out of it,
he was trifling with the time of the board.
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Mr. IT ART said that Mr. Bremner had totally misap-
prehended the subject. The relieving officer was the
agent of the quorum. He did as they desired. If the
quorum thought a party should only have relief for a week,
at the end of that time they were at liberty to have the
party brought before them again. The relieving officer
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did not stop relief in any case without bringing it again
before the quorum ; and it was quite a mistake t OM
that be could stop it without authority. .
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Mr. BRIGHT eulogised the working of , . e ioebenV
and said that a system less creditable t
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Mr. EARLE characterised the motion vie 1!!•:',:i.17--4 4,,,ii ,-
struggle—a dying kick at the poor-law Tip ... :,, ,
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and nothing else. (A laugh.) :/. ~, -.:•N:
1 After a few further observations, the f ; .
i don of the subject was postponed until t n. ''4lllle4,'l
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