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Statement of the Provision for the Poor, and of the Condition of the Labouring Classes in a Considerable Portion of America and Europe: Being the preface to the foreign communications contained in the appendix to the Poor-Law ReportSenior, Nassau William

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Statement of the Provision for the Poor, and of the Condition of the Labouring Classes in a Considerable Portion of America and Europe: Being the preface to the foreign communications contained in the appendix to the Poor-Law Report

Name: Statement of the Provision for the Poor, and of the Condition of the Labouring Classes in a Considerable Portion of America and Europe: Being the preface to the foreign communications contained in the appendix to the Poor-Law Report
Author: Senior, Nassau William

Senior, Nassau William

Poor -- Europe; Poor -- United States; Working class

(_b_). _Brest_--by A. Perrier, Esq., ditto                     724

        (_c_). _La Loire Inferieure_--by Henry Newman, Esq., ditto     171

        (_d_). _Bourdeaux_--by T. B. G. Scott, Esq., ditto             229

        (_e_). _Bayonne_--by J. V. Harvey, Esq., ditto                 260

        (_f_). _Marseilles_--by Alexander Turnbull, Esq., ditto        186

    15. _Portugal_--by Lieut. Col. Lorell, ditto                       642

    16. _The Azores_--by W. H. Read, Esq., ditto                       643

    17. _Canary Islands_--by Richard Bartlett, Esq., ditto             686

    18. _Sardinian States_--by Sir Augustus Foster, his Majesty’s
    Minister                                                           648

    19. _Greece_--by E. J. Dawkins, Esq., ditto                        665

        (_a_). _Patras_--by G. W. Crowe, Esq., his Majesty’s Consul    668

    20. _European Turkey_--                                            669

It is impossible, within the limits of a Preface, to give more than a
very brief outline of the large mass of information contained in this
volume, respecting the provision made for the poor in America and in
the Continent of Europe.




AMERICA.


It may be stated that, with respect to America, a legal provision is
made for paupers in every part of the United States from which we have
returns, excepting Georgia and Louisiana; and that no such provision
exists in Brazil or in Hayti, or, as far as is shown by these returns,
in any of the countries originally colonized by Spain.

The system in the United States was of course derived from England, and
modified in consequence, not only of the local circumstances of the
country, but also of the prevalence of slavery in many of the States,
and of federal institutions which by recognising to a certain extent
each State as an independent sovereignty, prevent the removal from one
State of paupers who are natives of another. Such paupers are supported
in some of the northern districts not by local assessments, but out of
the general income of the State, under the name of state paupers.

The best mode of treating this description of paupers is a matter now
in discussion in the United States.

The following passage in the report of the Commissioners appointed to
revise the civil code of Pennsylvania, shows the inconveniences arising
from the absence of a national provision for them: (pp. 139, 143.)

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Statement of the Provision for the Poor, and of the Condition of the Labouring Classes in a Considerable Portion of America and Europe: Being the preface to the foreign communications contained in the appendix to the Poor-Law Report

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