An Abridgment of the Cases Upon the Subject of the Poor Law (Volume 2); Decided Since the Passing of the 4 & 5 Will. IV. C. 76, and a Collection of the Subsequent Enactments Upon the Same Subject (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. 1843. Excerpt: ... Overseers' Accounts. How to be produced to the Auditor. Q. v. The Overseers of the Poor of Halifax. 10 L. J. R. (n. s.) M. C. 81. The overseers of the parish of Halifax, in the account which they submitted to the Auditor of the Halifax Union, inserted an item for constables' expenses, 104/. 9. 8d., but refused to furnish any particulars of that sum. A rule for a mandamus to them to exhibit to the Auditor a statement of the particulars of this charge was moved for. Williams, J.--" A mandamus is not necessary. The Au"ditor has the remedy in his own hands. Unless particulars "are furnished he need not allow the charge. " Rule refused. Disallowance by the Justices. Q. v. Fouch and another. 1 G. & D. 585: S. C. 11 L. J. R. (n. s.) M. C. 1. The parish of Warfield, in the East-Hampstead Union, was valued under the Parochial Assessment Act, 6 & 7 Will. IV. c. 96, 3, by a surveyor, but the parish refused to adopt his valuation. The parish officers made a new valuation upon their own responsibility, and a poor-rate on that valuation. The rate was appealed against at the Special Sessions, under the 6th section of that Act. The Justices altered the assessments in ten cases, and ordered the parties to pay their own expenses. The overseers inserted in their accounts payments to two surveyors and a solicitor, amounting in the whole to 85?. 8s. 8d. The Auditor allowed these payments, and the majority of the parishioners, at a vestry, sanctioned them. The Justices, however, at a Special Session, on objection, disallowed them, and the Quarter Sessions, on appeal, confirmed the disallowance, subject to a case. Against their order it was argued, that these were items of expense necessarily incurred by the Overseers in their official capacity. They had made the poor-r...