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ROUNDSMAN See also:

SYSTEM

SYSTEM (sometimes termed the See also:
BILLET
billet, or See also:
TICKET (O. Fr. esliquet, also estiquette, mod. etiquette, from Ger. sleeken, to stick up)
ticket, or See also:
ITEM (a Latin adverb meaning " also," " likewise ")
item system) , in the See also:

ENGLISH

English poor See also:

law, a See also:

plan by which the See also:

PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish paid the occupiers of See also:

PROPERTY

property to employ the applicants for See also:

RELIEF

relief at a See also:

RATE

rate of See also:

WAGES (the plural of " wage," from Late Lat. wadium, a pledge, O. Fr. wagier, gagier)

wages fixed by the parish. It depended not on the services, but on the wants of the applicants, the employer being repaid out of the poor rate all that he advanced in wages beyond a certain sum. According to this plan the parish in See also:

general made some agreement with a See also:

FARMER, RICHARD (1735–1787)

farmer to sell to him the labour of one or more paupers at a certain See also:

price, paying to the pauper out of the parish funds the difference between that price and the See also:

ALLOWANCE (from "allow,' derived through 0. Fr. alouer from the two Lat. origins adlaudare, to praise, and allocare, to assign a place; so that the English word combined the general idea of "assigning with approval")

allowance which the See also:

scale, according to the price of See also:

BREAD

bread and the number of his See also:

FAMILY

family, awarded to him. It received the See also:

LOCAL

local name of billet or ticket system from the ticket signed by the overseer which the pauper in general carried to the farmer as a See also:

WARRANT (Med. Lat. warantum; O. Fr. garant, warant, derived from O.H.G. root represented in modern German bygewdhren)

warrant for his being employed, and afterwards took back to the over-seer, signed by the farmer, as a See also:

PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof that he had fulfilled the conditions of relief. In other cases the parish contracted with a See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person to have some See also:

WORK

work performed for him by the paupers at a given price, the parish paying the paupers. In many places the roundsman system was carried out by means of an See also:

AUCTION

auction, all the unemployed men being put up to See also:

sale periodically, sometimes monthly or weekly, at prices varying according to the See also:

time of See also:

YEAR

year, the old and infirm selling for less than the able-bodied. The roundsman system disappeared on the reform of the poor law in 1834.

End of Article: ROUNDSMAN SYSTEM (sometimes termed the billet, or ticket, or item system)

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