A Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor Volume 3 (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. 1814 edition. Excerpt: ...be established, used, or appropriated, or continue to be used or appropriated, for the public reCeption of pregnant women, under public or private support, regulation, and management, in any parish within that part of Great Britain called England, unless a licence shall be first had and obtained, in manner hereafter mentioned, from the justices of the peace, at some one of their general quarter sessions to be held for the county, riding, division, city, ' or corporation, wherein such hospital or place shall be situated; and such justices are hereby authorised and required to grant" such licence to any person or persons who shall apply for the same, such person or persons paying the sum of forty shillings for every such licence to the clerk ofthe peace of such county, riding, or division, or to the town-clerk of such IO ' city lying-in Hospitals. city or corporation, as a perquisite for his trouble, and as a fund to defray the expence of the stamp and parchment that shall be used for the grant of such licence. II. And be it further enacted, That every such licence shall be written on parchment, and stampt with a five shilling stamp; and a copy thereof shall be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose by such clerk of the peace, or town clerk, and preserved as a public register amongst the records of the county, riding, division, or of such city or corporation, as the case may be, to be inspected by any person or persons on payment of one shilling; and every such licence shall be signed by two or more such justices of the peace at their general quarter sessions, and shall intitle the person or persons to whom such licence shall be granted to keep one hospital, house, or place, and no more, for the public or charitable reception of...