A justice, or a medical man, or clergy- 

 man, by warrant of a justice, may visit 

 workhouses, and examine the state of 

 them, and hear complaints, and certify 

 to the sessions ; and if there should be 

 any infectious disorder, the visiting jus- 

 tice shall apply to another justice, or any 

 other person visiting, which two jus- 

 tices shall order such regulations as they 

 deem necessary, till the next sessions. 

 30 George. III. c. 49, s. 1, 2. 



Names of persons receiving parish re- 

 lief to be entered in a book. 3. Wil- 

 liam, c. 11, s. 11. And no other person 

 to be relieved but by order of a justice. 

 Ibid. 



No relief to be ordered by a justice un- 

 less for a reasonable cause, proved on. 

 oath, and unless the pauper shall have 

 first applied to a parish officer or a vest- 

 ry, nor before the justice shall have sum- 

 moned the parish officers. 9 George I. 

 c. 7, s. 1. 



The name of such person to be enter- 

 ed with the others ; and no parish officer, 

 except on sudden emergency, shall bring 

 any charge on the parish for persons not 

 so registered. P. 51. R. distress. J. 2. A. 

 poor. Ibid. s. 2. 



Persons receiving relief to be badged 

 on the shoulder with a large Roman P, 

 and the initial of the name of the parish. 

 P. forfeiture of the relief, or commitment 

 for not above twenty-one days. J. 1. 

 And on every peace officer who shall re- 

 lieve any person not so badged, 20s. 

 R. distress. J. 1. A. half to the inform- 

 er, half to the poor. 8, 9 William, c. 3. 

 s. 2. 



Settlements. The general heads on 

 which settlements are founded are, birth, 

 apprenticeship, service, serving offices, 

 renting 10/. per annum, marriage, and 

 estate. 



1. Birth. Children, primd facie, whe- 

 ther bastard or legitimate, are settled 

 where born : but with respect to bas- 

 tards, if a woman goes collusively to be 

 delivered in another parish, the child 

 gains no settlement there. 



Bastards born during an order of re- 

 moval, or the suspension of it, belong 

 to the mother's parish. 35 George III. 

 c. 101, s. 6. And so of bastrads born in 

 vagrancy. 17 George II. c. 5, s. 25. And 

 so if born in houses of industry in incor- 

 porated districts. 20 George III. c. 36. 

 Or in friendly societies. 33 George III. 

 c. 54, s. 25. Or in lying-in hospitals. 13 

 George III. c. 82. 

 Legitimate children are settled as their 



parents, till old enough to gain a settle- 

 ment of their own ; the earliest period 

 of which is seven years : at which age, 

 by 5 Elizabeth, c. 5, s. 12, a child may be 

 apprenticed to a person using the seas ; 

 and by 17 George II. c. 5, justices may 

 bind the child of a vagrant of the same 

 age ; and any apprentice gains a settle- 

 ment in a place where he has resided as 

 such for forty days. 



2. Apprenticeship. The time required 

 to gain a settlement has just been men- 

 tioned. The apprentice must be legally 

 bound, except that the contract not be- 

 ing indented, which is fatal to the legali- 

 ty in every other case, is not in this. 31 

 George 1.1. c. 11. 



3. Service. Unmarried person without 

 children, hired and serving for a year, 

 gains a settlement. 3. \Villiam, c. 11. 

 But must continue a whole year in such 

 service. 8, 9 William, c. 30. Serving a 

 certificated member of a benefit society, 

 no settlement. 33 George III. c. 54, s. 

 24. Forty days residence in the place 

 necessary, but they need not be all to- 

 gether. Where the last forty days are 

 in different places, settlement where the 

 servant slept the last night. General 

 hiring deemed hiring for a year. Hir- 

 ing for a year, with liberty to be absent ^ 

 at harvest, sheep-shearing, Sec. gains no 

 settlement; but to serve a month in the 



militia does. Hiring for one day short of 

 a year no settlement. Serving for three 

 hundred and sixty -five days, if leap-year, 

 no settlement. Hiring at so much per 

 week, conditionally to part at a month's 

 warning, deemed a general hiring ; and, 

 as such, a hiring for a year. 



4. Serving Offices. Persons coming to 

 inhabit a place, and executing any annual 

 and public office for a year, settlement. 

 3 William, c. 11. s. 6. 



5. Renting 10!. per Annum. This gains 

 a settlement, if resided on forty days. 13, 

 14 Charles II. 



6. Marriage. As a general rule, the 

 wife follows the husband's settlement; 

 but if the husband has no settlement, 

 or it is not known at his death, her 

 own settlement is restored, and if the 

 husband deserts his wife, her settlement 

 remains. 



7. Estate. No person shall be remov- 

 ed from any estate while he remains 

 on it. 9 George I. c. 7. But no per- 

 son gains a settlement by any estate 

 whose purchase was less than 301. Ibid. 



Persons who have no settlement, as 

 foreigners, or whose settlement cannot 

 be known, as deserted infants, must be 



