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A91084 Proposals for making provisions for setting the poor on work 1700 (1700) Wing P3728; ESTC R230122 5,404 4

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PROPOSALS For Making PROVISIONS for Setting the Poor on Work SINCE it is manifest That the Encrease of the Poor is become a Burthen to this Kingdom and their loose and idle Lives do contribute to the Depravation of Manners the principal Ground whereof proceeds from the Default of the Execution of the Laws And that it is an indispensable Duty That the Poor who are not able to help themselves should be maintain'd and such as are able and willing be employed and those that are obstinate and unwilling be compelled to labour For that end It is Proposed That after the 25th day of March 1701 there may be a Corporation to continue for ever in all Cities Boroughs Towns Corporate and Market-Towns except London and such other Cities and Towns whose Poor are already provided for by particular Acts of Parliament consisting of the several Persons herein after mentioned viz. in Cities and Towns Corporate of the Mayor Aldermen Bailiff or other Chief Magistrate and Minister of each Parish with such a particular Number of Guardians of the Poor as may be Elected out of such Inhabitants as contribute towards the Relief of the Poor And in Boroughs and Market-Towns not Incorporated of the Minister of each Parish with a particular Number of Guardians to be ascertained by the said Inhabitants at a General Meeting for that purpose which may be called a General Court and be Summoned by the Mayor Aldermen Bailiff or Chief Magistrate in Cities and Towns Corporate and by the Minister Churchwardens or Overseers of the Poor in Towns not Incorporated And such Guardians may continue till others are Elected in their rooms in such manner as is herein after mention'd And in case of the Death of any such Guardian the Mayor and Aldermen in Cities and Towns Corporate and the Ministers Churchwardens or Overseers of the Poor in Boroughs and Market-Towns not Incorporated may call a Court and chuse another in the place of such Persons so dying which several Persons before mention'd together with such Charitable Persons as may be elected may be Guardians of the Poor for such Places And to the intent that the said Guardians may have perpetual Succession It is further Proposed That the Mayor Aldermen Bailiff or Chief Magistrate in Cities and Towns Corporate and the Minister Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor in Towns not Incorporated may at a certain Time in the second Year and so in every succeeding Year meet and by the Votes of the Inhabitants so qualified as aforesaid chuse one third part of the number as they did at the first Election of the Inhabitants to be Guardians of the Poor the Vacancy to fall on a third part of the number of those that were first elected in the second and third Year by Lot to be cast amongst the said Guardians first elected and for every Year after a third part of the said number of Guardians to go out and their Places to become vacant by Seniority and Priority of Election none being intended to continue longer than three Years unless again chosen by their own consents except such other charitable Persons as may be constituted as herein after is appointed That the said several Persons before mentioned and those that hereafter may be chosen may be one Body Politick and Corporate in Law and be called by the Name of the Governor Deputy-Governour Assistants and Guardians of the Poor and may Sue and be Sued by that Name and without Licence in Mortmain purchase or take any Lands of the Gift or Alienation of any Person whatsoever And for the better Governing the said Corporations That the Persons before mentioned may within fourteen Days after their Incorporation meet and chuse a Governour Deputy-Governour and Treasurer and as many Assistants as may be convenient to continue for one Year and no longer That the said Governour and in his default the Deputy-Governour and in his default one third of the Assistants may hold a Court of the said Corporations Monthly And upon any Emergency signified to the said Governour by one third of the said Guardians that an Extraordinary Court ought to be held the said Governour or in his default the Deputy and in his default one third of the Assistants may call the same and all Members to be obliged to attend or a Fine be laid on them by the said Court without some lawful Excuse for the same who may have Power to summon any the Inhabitants before them in Matters relating to the said Corporation That the said Corporation may have a common Seal and make Bye-Laws for the better Governing and Employing their Poor to continue for six Months only unless confirmed by the Justices of Assize or by the Justices of the Peace in their General Quarter Sessions and may have Power to buy or erect Hospitals Work-Houses or Houses of Correction and to provide Necessaries for setting the Poor to Work and to compell all poor People seeking Relief to inhabit in such Work-Houses and take in Children of any Persons willing to put them in such Hospitals until their Age of Eighteen Years and then to put them out Apprentices and during their stay in the said Hospitals may cause them to be taught to Read and be instructed in the Common Fundamental Principles of the Protestant Religion by Law Established in this Kingdom And further That the said Courts may have Power to inflict reasonable Correction on such Persons as shall not conform to their Rules or misbehave themselves in the said Hospitals or Work-houses And for the carrying on so pious a Work It is Proposed That each Corporation shall ascertain what Summs of Money may be needful for the buying or building Hospitals Work-houses and Houses of Correction and for a Stock for Employing the Poor and to ascertain what Weekly Monthly or other Summs will be needful for maintaining and setting them to Work the same to be raised in a proper and lawful manner and by proper and lawful methods That the said Corporation may have care of all the Poor within their respective Jurisdictions except such as are in Alms-Houses and otherwise provided for and maintain their Impotent Poor and provide Work for those whose Charge of Children is too great to be maintained by their own and Childrens Labour and to apprehend all Rogues and Vagrants and cause them to be kept and set to Work and examine and search what poor Persons are come into or residing within their respective Jurisdictions and remove them to the place of their last legal settlement if they think fit and may put in execution all the Laws that relate to such Rogues and Vagabonds That the said Governour Deputy and Treasurer of the said Corporations may be Justices of the Peace as to the putting such Laws in execution and be invested with such Powers as Justices of the Quorum have by the said Statutes within their respective Jurisdictions That in all the said Cities and Towns the Authorities of the Justices of the Peace for the
Counties at large as to the putting the said Laws in execution be taken away unless for Confirmation of their Bye-Laws or upon application by way of Appeal as before so as not to deprive the Mayor and Chief Officer in Cities or Towns Corporate of any Jurisdiction which they before lawfully had within their Cities and Towns Corporate That the said Corporations may not have any Power over Alms-Houses and Hospitals already erected or other Charitable Gift already given except for so much Charitable Gift as is appointed for the Use of the Poor and that all such Gifts which have already and may be given after the erecting of these Corporations for the Use of the Poor of any Parish or Precinct within the said Corporation except Alms-Houses or Hospitals already erected may be received by that Corporation to be erected to which the said Parish or Precinct belongs unless such Gift be limited to any other particular Use and the said Guardians to have like Power of Letting and putting out any Money or Lands already given after the Leases now in being expired as they may have of any Lands or Moneys given for the Use of the Poor And that for the Encouragement of such as may be Benefactors to so good a Design It is Proposed That if any Charitably disposed Person shall give the Summ of Fifty Pounds or more to any Corporation towards carrying on the said Work the said Corporation may constitute such Persons to be Guardians of the Poor of the said Corporations for Life unless for just cause he shall be removed by any succeeding Court which said Persons so chosen to be called an Honorary Guardian and not be obliged to attend the Business of the said Corporation or its Courts unless of his own free Will And that the said Corporations in their Courts may have Power to chuse and entertain all such Officers as may be needful to be employed in the Premisses and remove them as they see cause and upon the death or remove of any of them to chuse others in their rooms and to give such reasonable Allowances to them as they shall think fit to be paid out of the Poors Stock That no Officer so chosen or employed as aforesaid be lyable by reason of his Office or Execution to the Penalties mentioned in an Act of 25 Car. II. for preventing the Danger which may happen from Popish Recusants and that every Guardian of the Poor elected and constituted as aforesaid may in respect of his trouble be excused from serving any Parish Office during such his Guardianship That the Treasurer and all other Officers for the time being may from time to time before such Persons as the said Corporation shall appoint account for such Money Stock and other things belonging to the said Corporation as shall come to their hands or be under their care upon reasonable Warning given and on neglect shall by the said Corporations be committed to Prison without Bail until they shall Account and if upon Account there appear any thing to be in their hands belonging to the said Corporation they pay and deliver or give Security for the same as the said Corporations shall direct and approve of upon pain of forfeiting Double what is due from him That all Pains and Penalties may be recovered in a lawful manner for the Benefit of the Corporation That after the said 25th Day of March 1701 it may be lawful for any County Hundred Town Parish or Place not being a Borough Town Corporate or Market-Town or Place united together with some Borough or Market-Town to associate themselves to erect Hospitals Houses of Correction and Work-houses for maintaining and employing the Poor belonging to such respective places which being confirmed and recorded in their General Quarter-Sessions may be a Corporation for such particular place and consist of all the Justices of the Peace for the time being within the County Hundred Town Parishes or Places so United and Incorporated together with the Ministers of each Parish and such number of the Guardians of the Poor as may be elected out of the most substantial Inhabitants of every such place by the Votes of such respective Inhabitants as contribute towards the Relief of the Poor or the major part of them then present such number of Guardians for each Parish to be setled in proportion to the Money it pays towards the Relief of the Poor by the said Justices in their said General Quarter-Sessions and may be elected at a Meeting of the Inhabitants for that purpose in each Parish such Meeting to be summoned by the Minister Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of each Parish after Notice given from the General Quarter-Sessions Which Guardians so chosen may continue in their Offices till others be elected by the Inhabitants of each Parish or Place respectively in their rooms according to the method before Proposed in Boroughs and Market-Towns not Incorporated Which said Justices Ministers and other Charitable Persons may be Guardians of the Poor And to the Intent the said Guardians may have perpetual Succession That the Ministers Churchwardens or Overseers of the Poor in each Parish or Place in the second Year from the first Election and so in every Year succeeding may Meet and by the Votes of the Inhabitants qualified as aforesaid chuse one third part of the Number they did chuse at their first Election to be Guardians who shall succeed the same Number first elected the Vacancy to fall by Lot in all respects and in the same manner as is before Proposed in the case of Cities and Market-Towns not Incorporated That the said several Persons may be one Body Politick and have a perpetual Succession and be called by the Name of the Governour Deputy-Governour Assistants and Guardians of the Poor and may Sue and be Sued in all Places of Judicature and without Licence Purchace in Mortmain and Grant and Demise or do all such other things as in the Case of Cities Towns Corporate Boroughs and Market-Towns is limited and proposed to be done and may have Power to appoint a Common Seal and make and ordain By-Laws erect Hospitals Work-houses and Houses of Correction and provide Necessaries for setting the Poor to Work and inflict reasonable Punishment for neglect of their Duty to put forth Children Apprentices And that the said Governour Deputy-Governour and Treasurer may be Justices of the Peace and of the Quorum as to the Execution of their Laws and Statutes within their Limits so as not to exclude the Authority of Justices of the Peace in the County at large And all Charitable Persons that shall give Fifty Pounds towards the carrying on the said Work to be elected an Honorary Guardian as aforesaid And that the said Corporation may chuse all such other Officers and make reasonable Allowances for them to be paid in manner as aforesaid who shall not be liable to the Penalties in the said Act of 25 Car. II. and the said Guardians to be exempted from all Parish Offices during such his Guardianship and the Treasurer and all other Officers to Account before such Person and in such manner as in the Case of Boroughs and Market-Towns not Incorporated That any Borough or Market-Town not Incorporated may associate together with one or more Boroughs Market-Towns Parishes or Places adjacent in the same County by their mutual Consent which being recorded by the Justices in their General Quarter-Sessions to be declared Corporations for ever and to be invested with all the Powers herein before mention'd in Case of Cities Towns Corporate Boroughs and Market-Towns not Incorporated That these PROPOSALS are not intended to be Compulsory to any small Borough Town Corporate or Market-Town the Poors Rates whereof have not in one of the three Years past exceeded 150 l. a certain Summ. Which notwithstanding may be at liberty to Incorporate themselves as any other Town Parish or Place in the County at large not being a City Town Corporate or Market-Town according to the several Appointments Directions and Limitations before express'd That all Mayors Justices Sheriffs Bailiffs Constables and other Officers of Justice be Aiding and Assisting to the said Corporations and to all Officers by them to be employed therein In case any Persons can propose any better Expedient or make any reasonable Additions to or Alterations of the said PROPOSALS they are desired to impart the same to Mr. Jodrell at his House in Chancery-lane so that the same may be considered by such Persons as intend to put their Hands to this great Work for the bringing the same to effect if it may be something of this nature in the City of Bristol and other Places having met with good Success LONDON Printed by J. LEAKE in Jewin-Street 1700.