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poor relief.
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place he removed from, or stands in need of such relief during the first calendar
year after such migration, he is regarded as having his domicile in the place
from which he has migrated. No one can be refused the right of changing
his abode on the ground that he may possibly come to need parish relief. —
Appeals against the refusal of parish relief can be brought before the Communal
Assembly and after that before the Governor.
Begging is forbidden by law. If the beggar arrested is in necessitous
circumstances, he obtains assistance; if otherwise, he is warned and, in bad cases,
can be sentenced to compulsory work. Minors (under 15 years of age) who have
repeatedly been guilty of begging, are chastised by order of the police authorities
in their parents’ or guardians’ homes.
The Poor Law Guardians are bound on receipt of application for
relief to inquire carefully into the petitioner’s position and needs, and
into how far such relief should be afforded; to see that necessitous
children not only receive maintenance, but also a fixed abode and
Christian education; to take note that such support is properly applied,
and with that object to divide the community into districts, each
under the inspection of a special Guardian.
Poor Law Guardians have the right of guardians and masters over
those who are entirely dependent on them for maintenance, and all that
they possess devolves on the community. The Poor Law Guardians
have the right of masters over a) everyone who is in receipt of other
relief than full maintenance; b) those whose wives, or children under
age, are entirely dependent on them for maintenance; c) those who
through idleness bring their wives or children to such poverty that
the latter are in need of assistance, even if that assistance be only a
temporary one.
If those falling under the dominion of the guardian are capable of work, but
refuse to perform the tasks assigned to them, or otherwise conduct themselves
contumaciously or licentiously, then such are to be warned, and if the warning is
unheeded, they are to be brought before the Governor, who has the power to
condemn them to enforced labour. In the case of those under age, the Board can
order them a thrashing. — The community has the right to be compensated
for relief afforded out of such property as the recipient of such relief possesses
or may come to possess, and out of the earnings accruing to the latter for work
performed while in the dominion of the guardians. In the case of the recipient
of relief having a kinsman properly answerable for his maintenance, the latter
shall pay this. If this be not done voluntarily, then the matter is to be brought
before the Governor.
Communities make their own regulations. The most common is
that children (less frequently elderly persons) who get direct poor
relief are boarded out, but elderly persons with none to care for them,
widows, and unmarried women with children are taken care of in
Poor-Houses or similar establishments, while the rest receive quarterly or
monthly allowances in money or kind whilst they live in their own
cottages or are boarded out. There are Workhouses in the larger towns.
In the country, Poor-farms have of låte years been more and more
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