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SECTION XXXI. 



WE recommend provision to be made that the original 

 rate shall never be raised by more than one-fifth, unless 

 for the purpose of emigration, save by the authority of 

 Parliament. 



SECTION XXXII. 



WE now come to the course to be pursued with respect 

 to voluntary associations. 



We propose that the Poor Law Commissioners shall 

 frame rules for the government of all associations that may 

 become connected with them ; that each association shall 

 before a certain period in each year transmit to the Com- 

 missioners an estimate of its probable expenditure and of 

 its funds for the year ensuing, specifying the particulars 

 thereof; and that the Commissioners be authorized to 

 award such grant to it as they shall think proper. 



We propose that the Commissioners shall be authorized 

 to advance for any voluntary association, out of the national 

 rate, the whole sum which may be necessary for the build- 

 ing and outfit of a mendicity or almshouse for any parish 

 or parishes ; and that if such mendicity or almshouse be 

 not afterwards duly maintained, the sum advanced shall be 

 repaid by the parish or parishes for which the same shall 

 be established, by four instalments, such instalments to 

 be levied by the Board of Guardians, and the amount 

 paid over to the Central Board, to the credit of the na- 

 tional rate. 



