POOR LAWS. 
*ary, till the next sessions. 30 George III. 
c. 49, s. 1, 2-. 
Names of persons receiving parish relief 
to be entered in a book. 3 William, 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 ap- 
plied to a parish officer or a vestry, nor be- 
fore the justice shall have summoned the 
parish officers. 9 George I. c. 7, s. 1. 
TJie name of such person to be entered 
with the others ; and no parish officer, ex- 
cept on sudden emergency, shall bring any 
charge on the parish lor persons not so re- 
gistered. P. bl. 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. for- 
feiture of the relief, or commitment for 
not above twenty-one days. J. 1. And 
on every peace officer who shall relieve any 
person not so badged, 20s. R. distress. 
J. 1. A. half to the informer, half to the 
poor. 8, 9 William, c. 3. s. 2. 
Settlements. The general heads on which 
settlements are founded are, birth, appren- 
ticeship, service, serving offices, renting 101. 
per annum, marriage, and estate. 
1. Birth. Children, primti facie, whether 
bastard or legitimate, are settled where 
born : but with respect to bastards, 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. 3.5 George III. c. 101, 
s. 6. And so of bastards born in vagrancy. 
17 George II. c. 5, s. 25. And so if born 
in houses of industry in incorporated dis- 
tricts. 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 settlement 
of their own ; the earliest period of which 
is seven years : at which age, by 5 Eliza- 
beth, c. 5, s. 12, a child may be appren- 
ticed to a person using the seas ; and by 
17 George II. c. 5, justices may bind the 
child of a vagrant of tlie same age ; and 
any apprentice gains a settlement in a place 
where he has resided as such for forty 
days. 
2. Apprenticeship. The time required to 
gain a settlement lias ju.st been mentioned. 
The apprentice must be legally bound, ex- 
cept that the contract not being indented, 
which is fatal to the legality in every otlier 
case, is not in this. 31 George II. c. 11. 
3. Service. Unmarried person, without 
children, hired and serving for a year, gains 
a settlement. 3 William, c. 11. But must 
continue a whole year in such service. 8, 9 
William, c. 30. Serving a certificated mem- 
ber 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 together. Where the last 
forty days are in different places, settlement 
where the servant slept the last night. Ge- 
neral hiring deemed hiring for a year. Hir- 
ing for a year, with liberty to be absent at 
harvest, sheep-shearing, &c. gains no settle- 
ment; but to serve a nionth 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 settle- 
ment. Hiring at so much per week, con- 
ditionally 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 in- 
habit a place, and executing any annual and 
public office for a year, settlement. 3 Wil- 
liam, c. 11 , s. 6. 
5. Renting 101. 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 removed 
from any estate while he remains, on it. 
9 George I. c. 7. But no person gains a 
settlement by any estate whose purchase 
was less than 301. Ibid. 
Persons who have no settlement, as fo- 
reigners, or whose settlement cannot be 
known, as deserted infants, must be kept 
by the parish where they happen to be. 
Certifieate's. This head is almost done 
away by the salutary law which will be no- 
ticed under 
Removals. So much of 13, 14 Charles IL 
c. 12, as enables justices to remove persons 
likely to become chargeable, is repealed ; 
and no person can now be removed till ac- 
tually chargeable. 35 George III. c. 101, 
s. 1. 
Justices may suspend removal of persons 
ill, either under a vagrant pass, or order of 
