The Jurisdiction & Practice of the Court of Quarter Sessions; With Forms of Indictments, Notices of Appeal, Etc (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1836 Excerpt: ... of the poor, in pursuance of stat. 43 Eliz. c. 2, or other statutes upon the subject, shall be allowed to them. See 43 Elix. c. 2, . 1. 22 G. 3, c. 83, s. 8. 41 G. 3, c. 9, s. 2. 2. All payments which they are obliged to make by any statute, such, for instance, as their parish's proportion of the county rate, (see 12 G. 2, c. 29, s. 2, ) the preminms paid by them with parish boys when apprenticed to the sea service, (2 o; 3 A. c. 6, s. 2, ) or the like, shall be allowed to them. 3. All sums paid by them to the constable, in pursuance of stat. 18 G. 3, c. 19, i. 3, 4. 4. The expenses of litigating settlements, Per Ashurst, J., R. v. Essex, 4 T. ft. 595, and such other law expenses as have been properly incurred, R. v. Micklefield, 1 Bott, 91, shall be allowed to them. But where a pauper, guilty of riotous conduct towards an overseer, being given in charge to a constable, was rescued; and the rescuer being indicted and acquitted, the overseer paid the costs of the prosecution, and charged them in his accounts: the Court held that these costs could not be charged to the parish by the overseer, as expenses incurred by him in the execution of his office. R. v. Bird et al. 2 6. % Aid. 522. 5. The salary of the assistant overseer (if any have been appointed, ) under stat. 59 G. 3, c. 12, s. 7, shall be allowed to them. But an overseer cannot charge for a salary to himself: and therefore, where, upon appeal against an overseer's accounts, on the ground that a salary had been allowed to him, and was charged in the account, and the Sessions allowed it: the Court of King's Bench held, that no such charge could legally be made, saying, that an overseer has no right to a salary for his services; it being suggested, however, that this was really not a salary, but a sum paid