Folios 118-122. Draft letter from Poor Law Commission to [William Ashton, Clerk to...

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Reference	MH 12/9228/55
Date	1836-01-01
Description	Folios 118-122. Draft letter from Poor Law Commission to [William Ashton, Clerk to the Guardians of the Basford Poor Law Union], in response to the recent Minutes of the Basford Poor Law Union board of guardians sent to the Poor Law Commission. Their comments are as follows; Relief to bastards. Mentions the 54 [section], classes of paupers. Also mentions 15 Section of the Poor Law Amendment Act and the rules and regulations for the administration of relief to the poor. Section 27 of the Act authorises justices to award relief to the old and infirm and by Section 54 to award temporary relief denied by the overseer and medical relief to paupers. A quote from the Act regarding justices powers. The Act allows the guardians to use their discretion in giving relief to a bastard child outside of the workhouse. Mentions statute papers with regard to a mother of a bastard child's duties and quotes the 18 Elizabeth [Act] and justices and churchwardens roles. They write of the decision in the case of Rex versus Haigh 3 GR [George Rex] 637, upon the 9 George 1 c 7 s 4, questioned and considered by, in particular, Mr Nolan. Guardians to use discretion in testing cases of destitution. Poor Law Union Number 334. Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
Held by	The National Archives, Kew
Legal status	Public Record(s)
Language	English
Closure Status	Open Document, Open Description

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