Folios 13-14. Draft letter from Poor Law Commission to R M Hodge [Richard Michell...

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Reference	MH 12/1530/7
Date	1847-02-23
Description	Folios 13-14. Draft letter from Poor Law Commission to R M Hodge [Richard Michell Hodge], Clerk to the Guardians of the Truro Poor Law Union, stating in charging the relief in the case of pauper Robert Stevenson: the Commission do not see that the guardians can take any notice of the question pending between the parishes of St Agnes and Kea as to the settlement of the pauper. Although the parish officers of Kea have not yet appealed against the order of removal taken out in the case of the pauper Stevenson, it would seem that they do not admit the settlement. Then the wife and children of Robert Stevenson were residing in St Agnes when the outdoor relief was given on the first occasion. So also Robert Stevenson was residing with his family in that Parish on the second occasion, when he applied for admission into the union workhouse and obtained relief in that form. Now by law the primary liability to afford relief attaches to the parish in which the destitute person is resident at the time relief becomes necessary. On this ground, the Commission consider that the parish of St Agnes is liable for the relief given on both occasions'. [Folio 15 is unused]. Paper Number: 1744/A/1847. Poor Law Union Number 57. Counties: Cornwall.
Held by	The National Archives, Kew
Legal status	Public Record(s)
Language	English
Closure Status	Open Document, Open Description

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