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<HEAD>PROPOSALS For Making PROVISIONS for Setting the Poor on Work.</HEAD>
<P>SINCE it is manife&s;t, That the Encrea&s;e of the <HI>Poor</HI> is become a Burthen to this Kingdom, and their loo&s;e and idle Lives do contribute to the Depra|vation of Manners, the principal Ground whereof proceeds from the Default of the Execution of the Laws: And that it is an indi&s;pen&s;able Duty, That the Poor who are not able to help them&s;elves, &s;hould be maintain'd; and &s;uch as are able and willing, be employed; and tho&s;e that are ob&s;tinate and unwilling, be compelled to labour:</P>
<P>For that end, It is Propo&s;ed,</P>
<P>That after the 25th. day of <HI>March,</HI> 1701, there may be a Corporation, to continue for ever, in all Cities, Boroughs, Towns Corporate, and Market-Towns, (except <HI>London,</HI> and &s;uch other Cities and Towns who&s;e <HI>Poor</HI> are already provided for by particular Acts of Parliament) con&s;i&s;ting of the &s;everal Per&s;ons herein after mentioned, <HI>viz.</HI> in Cities and Towns Corporate, of the Mayor, Aldermen, Bailiff, or other Chief Magi&s;trate and Mini&s;ter of each Pari&s;h, with &s;uch a particular Number of Guardians of the Poor as may be Elected out of &s;uch Inhabitants as contribute towards the Relief of the Poor. And in Boroughs and Market-Towns not Incorporated, of the Mini&s;ter of each Pari&s;h, with a particular Number of Guardians to be a&s;certained by the &s;aid Inhabitants, at a General Meeting for that purpo&s;e, which may be called a <HI>General Court,</HI> and be Summoned by the Mayor, Aldermen, Bailiff, or Chief Magi&s;trate in Cities and Towns Corporate, and by the Mini&s;ter, Churchwardens or Over&s;eers of the Poor in Towns not Incorporated. And &s;uch Guardians may continue till others are Elected in their rooms, in &s;uch manner as is herein after mention'd. And in ca&s;e of the Death of any &s;uch Guardian, the Mayor and Aldermen in Cities and Towns Corporate, and the Mini&s;ters, Churchwardens, or Over&s;eers of the Poor, in Boroughs and Market-Towns not Incorporated, may call a Court, and chu&s;e another in the place of &s;uch Per&s;ons &s;o dying; which &s;everal Per&s;ons before mention'd, together with &s;uch Charitable Per&s;ons as may be elected, may be Guardians of the Poor for &s;uch Places.</P>
<P>And to the intent that the &s;aid Guardians may have perpetual Succe&s;&s;ion, It is further Propo&s;ed,</P>
<P>That the Mayor, Aldermen, Bailiff or Chief Magi&s;trate in Cities and Towns Cor|porate, and the Mini&s;ter, Churchwardens and Over&s;eers of the Poor in Towns not Incorporated, may at a certain Time, in the &s;econd Year, and &s;o in every &s;ucceeding Year meet, and by the Votes of the Inhabitants &s;o qualified as afore&s;aid, chu&s;e one third part of the number as they did at the fir&s;t Election of the Inhabitants, to be Guardians of the Poor, the Vacancy to fall on a third part of the number of tho&s;e that were fir&s;t elected in the &s;econd and third Year, by Lot, to be ca&s;t among&s;t the &s;aid Guardians fir&s;t elected; and for every Year after, a third part of the &s;aid number of Guardians to go out, and their Places to become vacant by Seniority and Priority of Election; none being intended to continue longer than three Years, unle&s;s again cho&s;en by their own con&s;ents, except &s;uch other charitable Per&s;ons as may be con&s;tituted as herein after is appointed.</P>
<P>That the &s;aid &s;everal Per&s;ons before mentioned, and tho&s;e that hereafter may be cho&s;en, may be one Body Politick and Corporate in Law, and be called by the Name of <HI>the Governor, Deputy-Governour, A&s;&s;i&s;tants and Guardians of the Poor,</HI> and may Sue and be Sued by that Name; and without Licence in Mortmain, purcha&s;e or take any Lands of the Gift or Alienation of any Per&s;on what&s;oever.</P>
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<P>And for the better Governing the &s;aid Corporations,</P>
<P>That the Per&s;ons before mentioned may within fourteen Days after their Incorpora|tion meet and chu&s;e a Governour, Deputy-Governour, and Trea&s;urer, and as many A&s;&s;i&s;tants as may be convenient, to continue for one Year, and no longer.</P>
<P>That the &s;aid Governour, and in his default the Deputy-Governour, and in his default one third of the A&s;&s;i&s;tants, may hold a Court of the &s;aid Corporations Monthly: And upon any Emergency &s;ignified to the &s;aid Governour by one third of the &s;aid Guardians, that an Extraordinary Court ought to be held, the &s;aid Governour, or in his default the Deputy, and in his default one third of the A&s;&s;i&s;tants may call the &s;ame, and all Mem|bers to be obliged to attend, or a Fine be laid on them by the &s;aid Court (without &s;ome lawful Excu&s;e for the &s;ame) who may have Power to &s;ummon any the Inhabitants before them in Matters relating to the &s;aid Corporation.</P>
<P>That the &s;aid Corporation may have a common Seal, and make Bye-Laws for the better Governing and Employing their Poor, to continue for &s;ix Months only, unle&s;s confirmed by the Ju&s;tices of A&s;&s;ize, or by the Ju&s;tices of the Peace in their General Quarter Se&s;&s;ions, and may have Power to buy or erect Ho&s;pitals, Work-Hou&s;es, or Hou&s;es of Correction, and to provide Nece&s;&s;aries for &s;etting the Poor to Work, and to compell all poor People &s;eeking Relief, to inhabit in &s;uch Work-Hou&s;es, and take in Children of any Per&s;ons willing to put them in &s;uch Ho&s;pitals until their Age of Eighteen Years, and then to put them out Apprentices; and during their &s;tay in the &s;aid Ho&s;pitals may cau&s;e them to be taught to Read, and be in&s;tructed in the Common Fundamental Prin|ciples of the Prote&s;tant Religion, by Law E&s;tabli&s;hed in this Kingdom.</P>
<P>And further, That the &s;aid Courts may have Power to inflict rea&s;onable Correction on &s;uch Per&s;ons as &s;hall not conform to their Rules, or misbehave them&s;elves in the &s;aid Ho&s;pitals or Work-hou&s;es.</P>
<P>And for the carrying on &s;o pious a Work, It is Propo&s;ed,</P>
<P>That each Corporation &s;hall a&s;certain what Summs of Money may be needful for the buying or building Ho&s;pitals, Work-hou&s;es, and Hou&s;es of Correction, and for a Stock for Employing the Poor, and to a&s;certain what Weekly, Monthly, or other Summs will be needful for maintaining and &s;etting them to Work, the &s;ame to be rai&s;ed in a proper and lawful manner, and by proper and lawful methods.</P>
<P>That the &s;aid Corporation may have care of all the Poor within their re&s;pective Ju|ri&s;dictions, (except &s;uch as are in Alms-Hou&s;es, and otherwi&s;e provided for) and main|tain their Impotent Poor, and provide Work for tho&s;e who&s;e Charge of Children is too great to be maintained by their own and Childrens Labour, and to apprehend all Rogues and Vagrants, and cau&s;e them to be kept and &s;et to Work, and examine and &s;earch what poor Per&s;ons are come into or re&s;iding within their re&s;pective Juri&s;dictions, and remove them to the place of their la&s;t legal &s;ettlement, if they think fit, and may put in execu|tion all the Laws that relate to &s;uch Rogues and Vagabonds.</P>
<P>That the &s;aid Governour, Deputy, and Trea&s;urer of the &s;aid Corporations, may be Ju&s;tices of the Peace as to the putting &s;uch Laws in execution, and be inve&s;ted with &s;uch Powers as Ju&s;tices of the <HI>Quorum</HI> have, by the &s;aid Statutes, within their re&s;pective Juri&s;dictions.</P>
<P>That in all the &s;aid Cities and Towns, the Authorities of the Ju&s;tices of the Peace for the Counties at large, as to the putting the &s;aid Laws in execution, be taken away, unle&s;s for Confirmation of their Bye-Laws, or upon application by way of Appeal (as before,) &s;o as not to deprive the Mayor, and Chief Officer, in Cities or Towns Corporate, of any Ju|ri&s;diction which they before lawfully had within their Cities and Towns Corporate.</P>
<P>That the &s;aid Corporations may not have any Power over Alms-Hou&s;es and Ho&s;pitals already erected, or other Charitable Gift already given, except for &s;o much Charitable Gift as is appointed for the U&s;e of the Poor; and that all &s;uch Gifts which have already and may be given after the erecting of the&s;e Corporations, for the U&s;e of the Poor of any Pari&s;h or Precinct within the &s;aid Corporation, (except Alms-Hou&s;es or Ho&s;pitals already erected) may be received by that Corporation, to be erected, to which the &s;aid Pari&s;h or Precinct belongs, unle&s;s &s;uch Gift be limited to any other particular U&s;e; and the &s;aid Guardians to have like Power of Letting and putting out any Money or Lands already given, after the Lea&s;es now in being expired, as they may have of any Lands or Moneys given for the U&s;e of the Poor.</P>
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<P>And that for the Encouragement of &s;uch as may be Benefactors to &s;o good a De&s;ign, It is Propo&s;ed,</P>
<P>That if any Charitably di&s;po&s;ed Per&s;on &s;hall give the Summ of Fifty Pounds or more to any Corporation towards carrying on the &s;aid Work, the &s;aid Corporation may con|&s;titute &s;uch Per&s;ons to be Guardians of the Poor of the &s;aid Corporations, for Life, unle&s;s for ju&s;t cau&s;e he &s;hall be removed by any &s;ucceeding Court; which &s;aid Per&s;ons &s;o cho&s;en, to be called an <HI>Honorary Guardian,</HI> and not be obliged to attend the Bu&s;ine&s;s of the &s;aid Corporation, or its Courts, unle&s;s of his own free Will.</P>
<P>And that the &s;aid Corporations, in their Courts, may have Power to chu&s;e and enter|tain all &s;uch Officers as may be needful to be employed in the Premi&s;&s;es, and remove them as they &s;ee cau&s;e; and upon the death or remove of any of them, to chu&s;e others in their rooms, and to give &s;uch rea&s;onable Allowances to them as they &s;hall think fit to be paid out of the Poors Stock.</P>
<P>That no Officer &s;o cho&s;en or employed, as afore&s;aid, be lyable, by rea&s;on of his Office or Execution, to the Penalties mentioned in an Act of 25 <HI>Car.</HI> II. for preventing the Danger which may happen from Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants; and that every Guardian of the Poor, elected and con&s;tituted as afore&s;aid, may, in re&s;pect of his trouble, be excu&s;ed from &s;erving any Pari&s;h Office during &s;uch his Guardian&s;hip.</P>
<P>That the Trea&s;urer, and all other Officers for the time being, may from time to time, before &s;uch Per&s;ons as the &s;aid Corporation &s;hall appoint, account for &s;uch Money, Stock, and other things belonging to the &s;aid Corporation, as &s;hall come to their hands, or be under their care, upon rea&s;onable Warning given; and on neglect, &s;hall by the &s;aid Corporations be committed to Pri&s;on, without Bail, until they &s;hall Account; and if upon Account there appear any thing to be in their hands belonging to the &s;aid Corporation, they pay and deliver, or give Security for the &s;ame, as the &s;aid Cor|porations &s;hall direct and approve of, upon pain of forfeiting Double what is due from him.</P>
<P>That all Pains and Penalties may be recovered in a lawful manner, for the Benefit of the Corporation.</P>
<P>That after the &s;aid 25th. Day of <HI>March,</HI> 1701, it may be lawful for any County, Hundred, Town, Pari&s;h or Place (not being a Borough, Town Corporate, or Market-Town or Place united together with &s;ome Borough or Market-Town) to a&s;&s;ociate them&s;elves to erect Ho&s;pitals, Hou&s;es of Correction, and Work-hou&s;es, for maintaining and employing the Poor belonging to &s;uch re&s;pective places; which being confirmed and recorded in their General Quarter-Se&s;&s;ions, may be a Corporation for &s;uch par|ticular place, and con&s;i&s;t of all the Ju&s;tices of the Peace for the time being, within the County, Hundred, Town, Pari&s;hes or Places &s;o United and Incorporated, toge|ther with the Mini&s;ters of each Pari&s;h, and &s;uch number of the Guardians of the Poor as may be elected out of the mo&s;t &s;ub&s;tantial Inhabitants of every &s;uch place, by the Votes of &s;uch re&s;pective Inhabitants as contribute towards the Relief of the Poor, or the major part of them then pre&s;ent, &s;uch number of Guardians for each Pari&s;h to be &s;etled in proportion to the Money it pays towards the Relief of the Poor, by the &s;aid Ju&s;tices, in their &s;aid General Quarter-Se&s;&s;ions, and may be elected at a Meeting of the Inhabitants for that purpo&s;e in each Pari&s;h, &s;uch Meeting to be &s;ummoned by the Mini&s;ter, Churchwardens and Over&s;eers of the Poor of each Pari&s;h, after Notice given from the General Quarter-Se&s;&s;ions: Which Guardians &s;o cho&s;en may continue in their Offices till others be elected by the Inhabitants of each Pari&s;h or Place re&s;pectively, in their rooms, according to the method before Propo&s;ed in Boroughs and Market-Towns not Incorporated: Which &s;aid Ju&s;tices, Mini&s;ters, and other Charitable Per&s;ons may be Guardians of the Poor.</P>
<P>And to the Intent the &s;aid Guardians may have perpetual Succe&s;&s;ion,</P>
<P>That the Mini&s;ters, Churchwardens or Over&s;eers of the Poor in each Pari&s;h or Place, in the &s;econd Year from the fir&s;t Election, and &s;o in every Year &s;ucceeding, may Meet, and by the Votes of the Inhabitants qualified as afore&s;aid, chu&s;e one third part of the Number they did chu&s;e at their fir&s;t Election to be Guardians, who &s;hall &s;ucceed the &s;ame Number fir&s;t elected, the Vacancy to fall by Lot in all re&s;pects, and in the &s;ame manner as is before Propo&s;ed in the ca&s;e of Cities and Market-Towns not Incorporated.</P>
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<P>That the &s;aid &s;everal Per&s;ons may be one Body Politick, and have a perpetual Suc|ce&s;&s;ion, and be called by the Name of <HI>the Governour, Deputy-Governour, A&s;&s;i&s;tants and Guardians of the Poor,</HI> and may Sue and be Sued in all Places of Judicature, and, with|out Licence, Purchace in Mortmain, and Grant and Demi&s;e, or do all &s;uch other things as in the Ca&s;e of Cities, Towns Corporate, Boroughs and Market-Towns is limited and propo&s;ed to be done, and may have Power to appoint a Common Seal, and make and ordain By-Laws, erect Ho&s;pitals, Work-hou&s;es, and Hou&s;es of Correction, and provide Nece&s;&s;aries for &s;etting the Poor to Work, and inflict rea&s;onable Puni&s;hment for neglect of their Duty; to put forth Children Apprentices: And that the &s;aid Governour, Deputy-Governour and Trea&s;urer may be Ju&s;tices of the Peace, and of the <HI>Quorum,</HI> as to the Execution of their Laws and Statutes within their Limits, &s;o as not to exclude the Authority of Ju&s;tices of the Peace in the County at large: And all Cha|ritable Per&s;ons that &s;hall give Fifty Pounds towards the carrying on the &s;aid Work, to be elected an <HI>Honorary Guardian,</HI> as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>And that the &s;aid Corporation may chu&s;e all &s;uch other Officers, and make rea&s;onable Allowances for them, to be paid in manner as afore&s;aid, who &s;hall not be liable to the Penalties in the &s;aid Act of 25 <HI>Car.</HI> II. and the &s;aid Guardians to be exempted from all Pari&s;h Offices during &s;uch his Guardian&s;hip; and the Trea&s;urer and all other Officers to Account before &s;uch Per&s;on, and in &s;uch manner as in the Ca&s;e of Boroughs and Market-Towns not Incorporated.</P>
<P>That any Borough or Market-Town not Incorporated, may a&s;&s;ociate together with one or more Boroughs, Market-Towns, Pari&s;hes or Places adjacent in the &s;ame County, by their mutual Con&s;ent; which being recorded by the Ju&s;tices in their General Quarter-Se&s;&s;ions, to be declared Corporations for ever, and to be inve&s;ted with all the Powers herein before mention'd in Ca&s;e of Cities, Towns Corporate, Boroughs and Market-Towns not Incorporated.</P>
<P>That the&s;e PROPOSALS are not intended to be Compul&s;ory to any &s;mall Borough, Town Corporate, or Market-Town, the Poors Rates whereof have not in one of the three Years pa&s;t exceeded 150<ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> a certain Summ. Which (notwith&s;tanding) may be at liberty to Incorporate them&s;elves as any other Town, Pari&s;h or Place in the County at large, not being a City, Town Corporate, or Market-Town, according to the &s;everal Appointments, Directions and Limitations before expre&s;s'd.</P>
<P>That all Mayors, Ju&s;tices, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Con&s;tables and other Officers of Ju&s;tice be Aiding and A&s;&s;i&s;ting to the &s;aid Corporations and to all Officers by them to be em|ployed therein.</P>
<P><HI>In ca&s;e any Per&s;ons can propo&s;e any better Expedient, or make any rea&s;onable Addi|tions, to, or Alterations of the &s;aid</HI> PROPOSALS, <HI>they are de&s;ired to impart the &s;ame to Mr.</HI> Jodrell, <HI>at his Hou&s;e in</HI> Chancery-lane, <HI>&s;o that the &s;ame may be con&s;idered by &s;uch Per&s;ons as intend to put their Hands to this great Work, for the bringing the &s;ame to effect, if it may be; &s;omething of this nature in the City of</HI> Bri&s;tol, <HI>and other Places, having met with good Succe&s;s.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by J. LEAKE, in <HI>Jewin-Street,</HI> 1700.</P>
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