A Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor: Volume I
In: Routledge Library Editions: The History of Social Welfare
In: Routledge Library Editions: the History of Social Welfare Ser
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter I. Of the Manner of providing for the Poor previous to the Statute 43 Eliz. c. 2. -- Chapter II. Of the Divisions by which the Poor are to be maintained. -- Part II. Of appointing Overseers, and their Duties. -- Of The Poor's Rate. -- Chapter III. Of making, allowing, and publishing the Rate. -- Chapter IV. Of the Time for which the Rate is to he made. -- Chapter V. Of the general Purposes to which the Rate is to be applied. -- Chapter VI. Of Persons and Property to be rated. -- Sect. I. Of rating Land, Houses, and Profits annexed thereto. -- Sect. II. Incorporeal Hereditaments per fe. -- Sect. III. Titbes. -- Sect. IV. Coal Mines. -- Sect. V. Saleable Underwoods. -- Chapter VII. Of real Property exempted by particular Statutes. -- Chapter VIII. Of the Ratcability of Personal Property. -- Chapter IX. Of the Profit necessary. -- Sect. I. Of the Profit necessary. -- Sect. II. Of the Occupation necessary. -- Chapter X. Of Rating double. -- Chapter XI. Property, in what Place rateable. -- Chapter XII. Of the Principles upon, and Proportions in which the Rate is to be made. -- Chapter XIII. Of rating Parishes in Aid. -- Chapter XIV. Of levying and distraining for the Poor's Rate. -- Chapter XV. Of ascertaining what Poor the the Parish are bound to maintain. -- Chapter XVI. Of the several Kinds of Settlements, and General Rules which govern them. -- Chapter XVII. -- Sect. I. Of the Settlement by Marriage. -- Sect. II. Of the Proofs necessary to establish a Settlement by Marriage. -- Chapter XVIII. Of the Settlement of Legitimate Children by Birth. -- Chapter XIX. Of the Settlement of Illegitimate Children by Birth. -- Sect. I. Of the Settlement -- Sect. II. Of the Proofs.