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
Senior, Nassau William
Poor -- Europe; Poor -- United States; Working class
Should any person, (the law goes on to say,) who has led an
irreproachable life, and has become unprotected, not through
an unsteady or reprehensible conduct, but from causes which
cannot be reasonably laid to his charge, and who has obtained
an extension of time for procuring protection, still remains
without yearly employment or other lawful means of support,
and not be willing to try in other places to gain the means of
support, or shall have transgressed the orders that may have
been given him, and (being a male person) should not prefer to
enlist in any regiment, or in the royal navy, or should not
possess the requisite qualifications for that purpose, the
person shall be sent to be employed on such public works as
may be going on in the neighbourhood, or to a work institution
within the county, until such time as another opportunity may
offer for his maintenance; he shall however be at liberty,
when the usual notice-day arrives, and until next moving-time,
to try to obtain legal protection with any person within the
county who may require his services, under the obligation to
return to the public work institution in the event of his not
succeeding. Should there be no public work to be had in the
neighbourhood, or the person cannot, for want of necessary
room, be admitted, he shall be sent to a public house of
correction, and remain there, without however being mixed with
evil-disposed persons or such as may have been punished for
crimes, until some means may be found for him or her to obtain
a lawful maintenance.--(p. 362.)
Servants or other unprotected persons who have of their own
accord relinquished their service or constant employ, and by
means of such or other reprehensible conduct have been legally
turned out of their employ, or who do not perform service
with the master or mistress who has allowed such person to
be rated and registered with them, or who, in consequence of
circumstances which ought to be ascribed to the unprotected
person himself, shall become deprived of their lawful means
of support, but who may not be considered as evil-disposed
persons, shall be bound to provide themselves with lawful
occupations within 14 days, if it be in a town, and within
double that number of days if it be in the country. Should the
unprotected person not be able to accomplish this, it shall
depend on Our lord-lieutenant how far he may deem it expedient
to grant a further extended time, for a limited period, to a
person thus circumstanced, in order to procure himself means
for his subsistence.--(p. 363).
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