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A35223 A proposal offered to the committee of the honourable House of Commons appointed to consider of ways for the better providing for the poor and setting them on work, and now under their consideration. Cary, John, d. 1720? 1700 (1700) Wing C732; ESTC R37475 3,369 9

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A PROPOSAL Offered to the COMMITTEE OF THE Honourable House of COMMONS APPOINTED To consider of Ways for the better providing for the POOR and setting them on Work And now under their Consideration THAT the Laws now in force about Vagrants Rogues Beggars Lewd Women Bastards c. and also the Laws about the Settlement of the Poor be comprehended in one Statute that so they may be more easily understood by those who shall undertake the Care of the Poor That the Laws about Providing for and Employing the Poor be still in force where new Corporations for the Poor are not setled That Encouragement be given for erecting Hospitals Houses of Correction and Work-houses for Maintaining and Employing the Poor of this Kingdom in all the Counties Cities and Towns under the Management of Corporations settled either under the Great Seal of England or by Act of Parliament or by the Justices of the Peace in their quarter-Quarter-Sessions That where these Corporations are settled in Cities or Towns Corporate the Poors Rates of all the Parishes be united into One and equally raised on the Inhabitants according to their Estates both Real and Personal except in London or other very large Places which may be divided into several Corporations by discretion of the Justices who may bring the Charge to an Equality either by joyning rich Parishes with poor or by making the richer Corporations contribute to the Poorer That the Corporations in the Country be not extended so large as to comprehend a whole County the Poor thereof being too many for one Corporation to govern but rather confined to a Hundred or Hundreds whose Parishes to be comprehended in One and each of them to contribute to the Charge thereof not by bringing them to an equal Pound-rate on their Lands and Personal Estates which I fear will discourage them from uniting but by taxing every Parish according to what it paid before there not being the same Parity of Reason for this way of Rating in the Hundreds as there is in Cities and Towns because in the Hundreds the Parishes do not receive an equal Benefit from the Labour of the Poor of other Parishes as they do in Cities and Towns yet this may be referred to the Justices of the Peace to proportion which I humbly conceive is all can be done except you make this Law compulsive That the Sums of Money to be raised for this Work shall not exceed what was paid in one of the last Three Years for the Maintenance of the Poor in all the Parishes thus united That these Corporations shall be obliged to maintain all the Poor impotent People within their Jurisdictions to provide Work for those who are willing and to force those to work who are idle and to assist those poor People whose Labour will not maintain their Charge That Hospitals and Work-houses and Houses of Correction shall be erected in convenient Places under the Government of each Corporation wherein the impotent Poor shall be provided for Vagrants and Idle People punished and kept at Hard Labour Young People of both Sexes bred up to work till the Age of Sixteen and also taught to read and the said Corporations shall have power to bind them out Apprentices the Boys to the Age of _____ and the Girls to the Age of _____ or time of Marriage Which Hospitals Work-houses and Houses of Correction shall be built at a general Charge to be raised in proportion according as each Parish pays to the Poor That the Governours of these Hospitals Work-houses and Houses of Correction in Cities and Towns Corporate be the Mayor and Aldermen together with a number of Guardians chosen out of each Parish and in the Hundreds all the Justices of the Peace inhabiting therein also a number of Inhabitants chosen out of each Parish in proportion to the Sum of Money it pays which Choice to be made once in every year when one half of them which were first chosen shall go forth and the remaining half shall stay in for the next Year The Electors in the Cities and Towns Corporate to be such as pay One penny per Week to the Poor in their own Rights and in the Hundreds the Freeholders of Forty shillings per Annum and in Case of the Death of any Guardian another to be chosen in his room by the Parish for which he served which Elections shall be made on the _____ in Courts held in each Parish by the Justices or Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor or the Constables That these Guardians shall chuse a Governour Deputy-Governour Treasurer and Assistants yearly and shall hold Courts and make By-Laws for the better carrying on this Work shall appoint how many of their Members shall make a Court shall settle the number of their Assistants and shall adjorn from time to time but shall be obliged once in every Calander Month at least to hold a Court which shall be held by the Governour Deputy-Governour or one half of the Assistants That the Court do once in every Year or once in Six Months agree how much Money will be necessary for the Maintaining and Employing their Poor for the Year or Six Months ensuing and that this be certified in each City and Town-Corporate to the Mayor and Aldermen of that City and Town-Corporate and in every Hundred to the Justices dwelling within the said Hundred at a Meeting to be held for that purpose who shall proportion the said Sum regularly on each Parish and grant out their Warrants to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor to assess it thereon and afterwards other Warrants to collect and pay it in to the Treasurer of the Corporation and if the Mayor and Aldermen in the Cities and Towns-Corporate or the Justices of the Peace in the Hundreds shall refuse or neglect by the space of _____ Days next after such Certificate made to them to issue out their Warrants to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor to make such Assessments or after such Assessments made by the space of _____ Days to issue out Warrants for the gathering of the same and paying it to the said Treasurer that then the several Corporations shall by their own Warrants under their Common Seal require the said Churchwardens and Overseers to do the same and if they neglect by the space of _____ Days after the issuing out such Warrant by the Mayor and Aldermen in the said Cities and Towns-Corporate or by the Justices of the Peace in the said Hundreds or on their neglect or refusal by the said Corporations to make Assessments and gather and pay the same to the said Treasurer then the said Corporations shall have power to levy the same on the Offenders for the use of the said Corporations That all charitable Gifts given for the use of the Poor after the erecting of these Corporations shall belong to that Corporation of which the Parish is a part to whom it is given That each of these Corporations be one Body Politick in Law and may sue and be sued and may without Licence in Mortmain purchase take and receive any Lands Tenements or Heriditaments and transfer the same and any Goods and Charttels whatever for the benefit of the said Corporation That the said Courts shall have these powers following viz. To Summon before them any Inhabitants within their Jurisdictions to answer to Matters relating to the said Corporations To appoint a Common Seal or Seals for the benefit of the said Corporations To buy Necessaries for putting the Poor at work To compel all People who seek to them for Relief or ought to be maintained by them to dwell in their Hospitals and Work-houses To inflict reasonable Correction on all poor Persons in their Hospitals and Work-houses To examine what Poor shall come to reside in any of their Parishes and to send them by their Warrants to the place of their last legal Settlement or to bring them before the Justices in order thereto Appeals as before To apprehend Rogues Vagrants Beggars loose and disorderly Persons and to cause them to be set at work for _____ Years in their Work-houses Hospitals or Houses of Correction To chuse and entertain necessary Officers and to pay them out of their Stock To certifie what Money will be necessary for building Hospitals Work-houses and Houses of Correction and to raise it as before and when raised to buy or build such Hospitals Work-houses and Houses of Correction To set down and agree on what Terms they will receive Honorary Guardians These Corporations not to have power over any Alms-houses Hospitals or other charitable Gifts already settled but that all those Gifts which have been given in general terms for the use of the Poor shall be in them No Officer in these Corporations by reason of such Office shall be liable to the Penalties mentioned in an Act made 25 Car. 2. for the preventing the Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants because this may keep out many People who may be very instrumental in carrying on this work The Treasurer of these Corporations to account with such Persons as they shall appoint and to make up his Accounts annually Forfeitures to be levied by Sale of the Offenders Goods by warrant under the Hand and Seal of the Treasurer That the Poor employed in the Woollen-Manufactures be paid for their Work in Money and not in Goods by all who do employ them That the Rates of Spinning be set every Year by _____ and that the pound of Wool delivered out to the Poor to be Spun by any Manufacturer do not exceed 16 oz. A Clause to secure those from unnecessary Suits who shall Act by virtue of this Law All which is Humbly Submitted to the Wisdom of this Honourable Committee John Cary.