A Proposed Plan for the Equalization of the Poor Rates; Throughout the Various Parishes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Providing for the Abolition of the Law of Settlement Rendering Thereby the Removal of Paupers Unnecessary, and Saving A (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. 1846 Excerpt: ...before his personal liberty "can be infringed by a forcible conveyance from "one part of the kingdom to another. Still consider"able hardship is occasionally suffered, and we may "be allowed to quote the preamble of a Bill, intro"duced into the House of Commons in the Session "1819, by Mr. Sturges Bourne and Lord Castle"reagh, as shortly stating the evils of both kinds "alluded to above: 'Whereas many poor and "' industrious persons are, when no longer able to "'maintain themselves, liable to be removed from "' the parishes in which they have resided and "' laboured many years to other and distant places "' of legal settlement, derived from their pa"' rents, or as being the places of their birth, or of " their transitory residence in the early part of "' their lives, and where they are forgotten and "' unknown, and great sums are yearly expended in "' the litigation of the numerous and complicated "' questions of law and of fact which arise in regard "' to such settlements; and it is expedient that a "' more reasonable, simple and uniform mode of Founded on the recommendation of the Committee before referred to: see note ante, page 39. "' acquiring legal settlements by residence should "' be established.' "We repeat, therefore, the most advantageous "position for a pauper born in England is clearly "the recognition of his right to relief without the "liability to removal; and it is equally clear that "this position is that of a person having no place "to which he can be legally removed; that is, having "no settlement." "If, therefore, settlements and removals were abo"lished, the pauper would ga...