Observations on the state of the indigent poor in Ireland; and the existing institutions for their relief being a sequel to "The principle of the English poor laws illustrated and defended" - Softcover

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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.1830 Excerpt: ... risb.es did not support him, and the plan fell to the ground. It was, however, proved to the satisfaction of the gentleman from whose evidence the above facts are taken, that if the system had continued, there would have been a considerable saving to the farmers, not only in what they gave, but also in the robberies and thefts committed on them by beggars. This last-named evidence, although only of an insulated fact and experiment, corroborates the opinions given as it were incidentally in every report or statement from which I have quoted. A respectable evidence, too, whose opinions are adverse to the introduction of Poor Laws, does not found his objections on the difficulty of finding persons to manage the system; for he thinks the English Highway Acts (13 Geo. III. and its amendments) might be safely applied to Ireland, placing the administration in vestries and surveyors, under the control of magistrates-. And this principle has begun to be. recognised by the legislature, by the Act 59 Geo. III. cap. 41, which empowers the inhabitants of any city or town in which the population amounts to one thousand or upwards, to establish officers of health, to secure constant attention to the prevention of contagious diseases, principally by re Lords' Evidence, 1824: p. 220. f 16th March 1825: p. 177. moving beggars from the same, and raising a fund by parochial assessments, to defray their expenses, although their own labour is gratuitous. The principle also has been recognised to a certain degree by the Acts , which rendered it necessary for the parish in which a deserted child is found, to pay hi. and the expenses of its maintenance and conveyance to the Foundling Hospital at Dublin. The earlier statutes direct that annual vestries should be held, and overseers...

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