18l6.] Progress of the British Legislation in l&\6. 4.37 



engaging to discharge the hospital of 1809, when Ihere were upon tlie rhar^e 



tliem before or after tlie age of fifteen 



years, if the governors shall so require.— 



if the father is minister of the parisli, the 



certificate to be signed by the officiating 



minister of a neighbouring parisli. 



Was any examination, before 1809, 

 made into the truth of the ccrtifieatcs .' 

 — No otiier examination than what is 

 pursued now; pievionsly, not perhaps 

 quite so strict ; in fact, t!ie examination 



of tlie hospital, chiklicn 1065, sixty-liv« 

 of whom wore girls ; 



" That of the 1000 boys— 

 161 were ailniitted ou gifts from compi- 



nies, parishes, &C. 

 498 sons of freemen. 

 23y sons ofnonfrecmen. 

 102 sons of clergymen, who had, ■ 



exchisive of the boys in the iios- 



|)ital, other cliikhen 



did not go so strictly into the capability Tiiat the parents of U7 1 boys, had, 

 of the parents to niuiiitain them, gr<-at exch.Mve of those m the ho: ■ 

 ■ - - ■ tal, other children 



dependence being placed upon the ho- 

 nour of the governor, that he would con- 

 form liimstif to the rules respecting the 

 qualifications. 



Are there many instances of cliildrcn 

 being admitted whose paretils are to- 

 tally destitute? — Very many. 



Is tiiat the case with the majority of 

 the ciiildrcn admitted? — No. It «p- 

 jicars, "that on the 17th of rebruary. 



lad, ■% 



lOS- I 



, iiad, > 

 lospi- (. 



57% 



5606 



And that '■Z7 boys had neither brother nor 



sistfr. 



" That out of the 973 boys, ther« 

 were as under: 

 Orphans ....... 571 



Sons of widows .... t'loV 360 



Motherless boys .... 93 j 



" Of t'ic above number, 400 were » 

 Hertford." 



(To be rcsianed in our next Number,^ 



BRITISH LEGISLATION. 



ACTS PASSED in the 5Gth YF.AR of the KEIGN q/" GEORGE THE THIRD, or in tfie 

 FOURTH SESSION of the FIFTH PARLIAMENT of the UIxITHU KINGDOM. 



CAP. IjXVI. For reducing the 

 Duties paijabh on Horses, used for 

 the Purposes tisercin mentioned, for two 

 Years ; and for repealing the Acts f^raut- 

 iuff Allowances in respect to Children. — 

 Jjune 22. 



At the end of this Act, made fur a totally 

 dijfircnt ])urj)(ise, is very iinpropirli/ iii'.eipo- 

 lated'ihe folliiwing most important ■ laiise: 



"From and after the passing of this Act, 

 a certain Act passed in the foity-sixth year 

 of the reign of his present Majesty, inti- 

 tided, " An Act to grant certain Allow- 

 ances ont of the Duties under the Manage- 

 ment "f the Commissiouers for the Affairs 

 of Taxes, to Persons in respect of the 

 Number of their Children;" and also a 

 certain other Act passed in the fifty-se- 

 cond yeaj of the reign of bis present Ma- 

 jesty, intituled, " An Act for regulating 

 the Allowances granted out of the linlics 

 of Asse'ised Taxes to Persons in respect of 

 the Number of their Children, by an Act 

 passed in the forty-sixfh.yearof his present 

 M.ijcHty, and for cxlinding the Llmnaiion 

 m.'.iiiiuned in the said Act in proportion to 

 the Iiicreaxe of the said duties,' shall be, 

 and ilie same are hereby, respectively 

 rej)eaJed." 



Which, ill truth, is a heavy Impost on fa- 

 thers of families, laid on without imhtic 

 notice, or any Huspiclnii on the part nf 

 tliote afcct,;!. 'Ihe difference to tli': edi- 

 tor of tliis Mairaziiie is 1 li. per aiiniiin, so 

 tliitt what wa» huilcd Ai u boou to ha^bttU'. 



dry, is thus to be paid by another equally 

 important class of the cornnninity. 



Cap. T.XVII. To enable such 00. 

 vers, Mariners, and Sn/diers, as have 

 been in the Land or Sea Service, r>r in tha 

 Marines, or in the Militia, or in any 

 Corps of Feneible Men, since the fortir- 

 sccond Year of his present Majesty's 

 Reign, to exercise Trades.— inne 22. 



Cap. LXVin. To provide for c 

 New Silver Coinage, and to regulate the 

 Currency of the Gold and Silver Coin of 

 this licalni. — June 22. 



The preamble recites, that silver coiiis 

 of the realm have, by long ii<e and other 

 circumstances, become greaily diininishtd 

 iuniimlier, and deteriorated in value, so 

 as ii'jt to be sniTuient for the payment* 

 required in dealings under the vahie of tire 

 current gold coins, by reason whereof a 

 great quantity of ligiit ami connteifeit sil- 

 ver coin and foieigu coin has been intrcn 

 dticed into ciicalatiitn ; and the evils re» 

 suiting tliercfrnm can only be remedied by 

 anew coinage of silver money, to be made 

 and iisiied under |)ro))er regulations fof 

 maintaining its value and preserving the 

 same 111 circuliition. 



The pound iroy of stanrlard silver, ole* 

 ven Otia<:es two penny vveif;liis fine, &c. 

 nny be coined intosixty-six slnllitii;;.s. 



Old silver ci'iii of the realm liruiiLrht trt 

 the mint, m.iy be exchanged for its full 

 iiominul value in new silver coin, 



TIk trutwuiy luay appoint persons ts 



K'OtfivC 



