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A53174 Observations upon a paper intituled, Reasons humbly offered to this honourable House why a Bill pretended to give further powers to the Corporation for setting the poor of the city of London and liberties thereof to work, should not pass into a law. 1700 (1700) Wing O108A; ESTC R223774 1,600 1

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OBSERVATIONS Upon a Paper intituled Reasons humbly offered to this Honourable House why a Bill pretended to give further Powers to the Corporation for setting the Poor of the City of London and Liberties thereof to work should not pass into a Law TO the first Paragraph 'T is presumed no further Powers are desired by the President Governours and Assistants of the City of London than what are granted in several late Acts to other Corporations in order to the clearing of the Streets from Beggars To the 2d By the Bill no single person of the Corporation hath power to determine any Allowance between any Complainant and the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor but such only as live within the respective Ward where such poor person is legally settled which Governour may reasonably be supposed as well to understand the condition of the Complainant as of any the said Churchwardens or Overseers of the Poor and more likely to do Justice between them To the 3d. There are few or no Churchwardens either in City or Country are desirous to have their Accounts publickly examin'd while their own Vestrys chuse the Auditors of the said Accounts without ever consulting the Justices therein But the Bill proposes no less than 7 of the Corporation to examin their Accounts And if the said Accounts are just they need not fear who inspects them nor will any honest man be discourag'd thereby from being Churchwarden and others are not fit to be intrusted Besides all which any Determinations of the said Corporation are subject to an Appeal to the Justices at the next open Sessions To the 4th The Collections desir'd were propos'd to be made as well at all other places appointed for Religious Worship as at Church-doors and only intended to ease the several Parishes in raising Mony to the Corporation by appointment of the Common Council pursuant to 13 and 14 Car. 2. To the 5th That tho the Corporation have power according to the foresaid Act of Parliament to apply to the Common Council to raise a Year's Tax ' as often as they have occasion yet have they endeavour'd to raise only one half Year's Tax in two years last past and hope they may not have any further occasion in some considerable time And the said Corporation have not power to maintain the Impotent but only to set those to work that are able And what Mony the Corporation have rais'd and disburs'd they have given an account of to the Justices of the Peace at the open Sessions and are obliged yearly so to do by the foresaid Act. And one 3 d part of those Persons the said Paper stiles these men are the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and besides divers others of the Gentlemen of the Corporation have served or fined for the Office of Sheriffs of the said City and none are chose but by the Common Council And whereas the Corporation are charg'd with requiring twelve pence per week they propos'd it only for Children and not for other persons which Children are fed clothed lodged and taught to get their own livings and when able to maintain themselves the Churchwardens are at liberty to take them away and the Corporation will be willing to take more and teach them in like manner And the Corporation having now about 200 Children in their Workhouse so maintain'd as aforesaid the several Parishes of the City of London which send them do by that particular only save 800 l. per ann And the said Children are taught to read and do go to Great St. Hellens Church twice every Sunday and are there catechised And the Corporation do imploy a great part of their time in serving the Publick without one penny benefit to themselves but on the contrary they spend their own Mony and did advance a considerable Sum for carrying on that Work before any Mony could be rais'd by the Common Council for that end Whereas in one or two of the Parishes in Farringdon without it has been customary to spend twenty pounds at a Scavenger's and three or four and twenty pounds at a Perambulation dinner which Mony is generally rais'd by overrating the Inhabitants As to the Honorary Governors the Writer of the said Paper arraigns the Wisdom of the Parliament who have given the like Powers to other Corporations for the encouraging their Charity without having any respect to their Persuasions To the Conclusion Tho the said Writer Will not allow the Reasonableness of the Bill now desired by the Corporation yet he desires to have a like Bill for Farringdon without who yet have an equal number of their Ward that are of the said Corporation already