Agricultural counties, land is in large properties in, 128.
number of landowners in, 68. number of occupiers and la- bourers in, 66.
proportion of juvenile criminals to population in, 88.
selected, and grounds for se- lection, 65. Agricultural districts, disregard of edu- cation in, 92.
-, incompetency of schoolmasters in, 92.
increase in value of, 62.
in other countries are less bur- dened with pauperism than manu- facturing and commercial districts, 58.; France, 60.; Scotland, 60.; Switzerland, 60; Wurtemburg, 61. Agricultural labourers careless about education, 96.
Agricultural unions and eastern dis- trict of London, population, net rental, expenditure for relief, &c. in, 75. 389.
Albert, Prince, Model cottages of, a declaration that the wealthy should make some better provision for the poor, 290. Allowance system, degrading tendency of, 246.
resolutions of Justices of Berk- shire adopting the, 257. Almoner, Lord, still exists, 157. Almoners, kings, abbots and bishops had their, 156.
Alnwick Union, inequality of poor- rates in the, 332. Anastasius, 141.
Anglo-Saxon Church. See " Church.” Annual value of property. See "Net rental."
Antioch, Council of, (a.d. 341) 146. Apostolical Canons, 145, 146 n. Appeals against orders of removals, provisions of 8 & 9 Will. 3. c. 30. as to the trial and costs of, 241. Appellants against order of removal should be required to give notice to the parish in which they intend to set up subsequent settlement, 262. Apprenticeship, settlement by, present law of, 267.; reasons for abolishing it, ib.; Commissioners for inquiring into poor laws (1834) pointed out absurdities in, 266.
Aquisgranense Concilium, (A.D. 816) 145 n. Ariphro of Sicyon, 288.
Army and Navy, effects of intem- perance in the, 105.
Assessed for different purposes, net rental as, tithe commutation rent charge, and expenditure for relief, in thirteen parishes in Bedfordshire,
Assessment for poor-rate on tithe commutation rent charge is on full value, but on land, usually about 25 per cent below, 348. Assessments Act, Parochial, is insuffi- cient to effect its object, 349. "Assises de Jerusalem," 165_n. Athalaric, 142.
Augustine, St. 135 n. 143. Austin, Mr. 291.
Austria, crime in town and country provinces of, 84.
number of children of age to attend, and number attending school in provinces of, 115. 392.
number of illegitimate births in town and country provinces of, 122. official statistics of, 19. 84. 115. 122. 379. 392.
population and number of sol- diers in several provinces of, 19. 379.
Bacon, Lord, 212. 386.
opinion of, in favour of small properties of land, 214. Bacon, R. N. 64.
Badge (P), 8 & 9 Will. 3. c 30, di- rected the poor to wear, 240. 305. Bailey, Rev. H. H. 305. Baluze, 145 n. 153 n, 154 n. Bancroft, G. 113.
Barrington, Daines, 218, 219. Barton, J. 86 n. 128. Bastards, first provision as to the affili- ation of, 199.
Bastardy clauses in Poor Law Amend- ment Act, 201. Bastardy law, Commissioners for in- quiring into poor laws (1834) re- commended repeal of 199.
Bastardy law, demoralising and inju-
rious influence of, 123. 199.
Beaumanoir, 165 n.
Bedford, Duke of, 291. 296 n.
"Bureau des Longitudes, Annuaire
du" (1851), 127 n. 387.
Buret, M. 20. 379.
Burn, Dr. 177. 239. 248. 266.
Bedford Union, inequality of poor- Burnet, Bishop, 177. 185. 242.
Beg, licenses to. See "Justices." Beggars. See "Vagrants." Belgium, and Departement du Nord, France, sum distributed by Bureaux de Bienfaisance in, and rate per head on population and on paupers of same, 387.
Bequest "to Christ," was, under Justi- nian, to be distributed to the poor, 141.
Berkshire, Resolutions of justices of, adopting the allowance system, 357. Beugnot M. 152 n. 165 n. Bill for establishing parochial manu- factories, House of Commons in 1704, passed a, 243.
Birmingham, expenditure for relief, and number of in-door and out-door paupers in, 72. 390.
income of, and number of per- sons relieved by charities in, 72. Birth, settlement by, absurdity of present law of, 269.
settlement by, Commissioners for inquiring into poor laws (1834), recommended the adoption of, ex- lusively, 265.
Bishops were, by the Canon Law, to administer relief to the destitute,
Blackstone, Sir W. 99, 100. 183 n. 209.
Board of Trade, Report from, to the
Lords Justices (1696), 235. Boards of Guardians. See "Guar-
Boccaccio, 161n.
Bodkin, W. H. 278.
Boehmer, 147 n.
Book of Common Prayer of Church of England, 159.
"Bread for the Poor," 237. "British and Foreign Medico-Chi- rurgical Review," 99.
"British Association, Transactions of the," 45. 47.
Buller, Mr. Charles, 227. 280. 307. Minute prepared by, (4th Aug., 1848) as to vagrancy, 363.
Cecil, Mr. Secretary, 210. 213. "Central society of education, third publication of,” (1839) 116 n. Certificates to settled paupers to re- move into other parishes, 8 & 9 W. 3, c. 30, gave power to parish officers and two justices to grant, 238; they became practically useless by 35 Geo. 3, c. 101. 252.
de Chamborant, C. G. 209. Channing, Dr. 130.
Chargeability, actual, a necessary con- dition to removal of the poor, by 35 Geo. 3, c. 101. 252.
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