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POOR-RELIEF.
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relief from the 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
settlement 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.
Complaints against the refusal of relief may be preferred before the
representatives of the community, but appeals against their decisions, respecting relief
applied for but refused, can only be made on the score of informality. Appeals
touching other questions must come before the Governor of the Län, whose
decision may, in certain cases, be referred to the Audit Court (Kammarrätten).
Poor-House in the Country (Nacka).
Everyone who solicits alms by word or gesture, from any other than the
person appointed by the community to receive application for poor relief, is
considered to have been begging. Within every poor law parish, there shall exist
a competent number of overseers, whose duty it is to stop beggars and institute
an examination of them. If the detained man is in a necessitous condition, he
receives relief; otherwise he is warned and may in more serious cases be
sentenced to compulsory labour. The same consequences threaten any who permits
a child under age to beg, whether it is his own or under his guardianship.
The poor law also prescribes that the community must concern itself with
providing an institution for giving work to those who are under the domestic
authority of the board of guardians; and their operations must tend to obviate
the need of poor relief in the future as much as possible, by the establishment
of savings-banks and relief funds, or by other effective methods.
Gradually, however, the latter instruction fell entirely into oblivion in the
majority of the communities, and the general interest in poor relief, which
had been awakened by the expectation of fresh legislation, had consequently
relaxed, and so in the sixties, seventies and eighties it depended completely
upon the responsible managing director in the board of guardians, his
interest and competence, that the care of the poor was in a satisfactory state.
Apparently the general public almost forgot that a parish poor law existed,
although the heavy rates might well have reminded them of the fact. At
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