things, for or on account of which such action or actions shall be brought, or such bill or bills of indictment preferred, is or are the property of the inspectors, without particularly stating or specifying the name or names of all or any of the said inspectors. Id. s. 60.
It shall be lawful for the said inspectors from time to time to provide and keep up fire engines, with pipes and other utensils proper for the same, for the use of the parish adopting the provisions of this Act, and to provide a proper place or places for the keeping of the same, and to place such engines under the care of some proper person or persons, and to make him or them such allowance for his or their trouble as may be thought reasonable; and the expenses attending the providing and keeping of such engines shall be paid out of the money authorized to be received by the inspectors under the provisions of this Act. Id. s. 44.
Able-bodied paupers, how relieved by the guardians, 137;
how, by the overseers, 286.
Accident, relieving officers to procure medical relief in cases
of, 357.
Accounts to be kept and rendered by churchwardens, 12;-by
constables, 59; by constables for counties and districts,
69;-by paid officers, 351; by relieving officer, 358;—
by surveyors of the highways, 243, 214;-by treasurer of
union, 356;-by vestry clerk, 416;-by watching and
lighting inspectors, 445.
Accounts of collector of poor-rates, 44.
Accounts of overseers of the poor, 330;-accounts audited
by justices of the peace, 330; overseers to account, 330;
accounts to be examined and allowed, 331; what dis-
bursements to be allowed, 331; appeal, 334.-Accounts
to be audited by the district auditor, 371.
Accoutrements of constable, other person having in possession,
71; constable dismissed not giving them up, 75.
Actions by and against churchwardens, 13;-against con-
stables, 61, 87; against justices for issuing warrant of
distress for poor rates, 308;-against any person for
obeying a peremptory mandamus, 308;-by or against
overseers of the poor, 340;-by and against watching and
lighting inspectors, 446.
Administration of the sacraments, duty of churchwardens to
provide everything necessary for, 1, 2, 12.
Admission of paupers into workhouse, 155.
Advances by overseers of the poor, how repaid, 334.
Advocates in ecclesiastical courts, exempt from serving as
constables, 50.
Advowson, 14; presentation, 15; institution, 15; induction,
15.
Affray, who may interfere to prevent it, 96.
Aiders of constables, killed in executing a warrant, in what
cases murder, 61.
Alehouse-keeper, cannot be constable, 50.
Alehouses, duty of constable as to, 95; and as to billeting
soldiers upon, 109.
Alien cannot be churchwarden, 11.
Allotment of land for the repair of highways, 219.
Allowances to constables, 58; to constables for boroughs, 65;
to constables for counties and districts, 76; to constables
on canals and navigable rivers, 84; to special constables, 92.
Allowance of poor rate, 304.
Allowance of indenture of pauper apprentices, 314.
Allowance of overseers' accounts by justices, 331; by district
auditor, 371.
Allowance, weekly, to paupers, to be paid by relieving officer,
358.
Amputation, remuneration to medical officer of union for, 363.
Apothecary exempt from serving as constable, 50;—or as
churchwarden, 11.
Appeal against church-rate, 11;—against highway rate, 210;
against order for contributing to repair turnpike road, 226;
against stopping up or diverting a highway, 232; not
against the allowance of surveyor's accounts, 244;
against the allowance of overseer's accounts, 334;-
against poor-rate, payment of rate pending it, 310;—
against auditor's allowance, disallowance, or surcharge,
Applications on behalf of guardians to justices, to be made by
their clerk, 355.
Appointment of churchwardens, 11, 412; of churchwardens in
new districts, 13;-of clerk to the guardians, 353 ;—of
collector of the highway-rate, 38;-of collector of the
poor-rate, 40;-of constables, petty constables, 49, 53,
paid constables, 56, borough constables, 62, county con-
stables, 66, chief constable, 68, deputy chief constable, 69,
superintendent constable, 70, local constables, 75, private
constables, 79, constables on canals and navigable rivers,
83, special constables, 88;-of district auditor, 367;—
of medical officer of union, 359;-of overseers of the poor,
272, 282;-of assistant overseer, 343;—of paid officer of
union, 345;—of parish clerk, 400;—of relieving officer,
357;-of sexton, 400;-of treasurer of union, 356 ;—of
officers under the lighting and watching Act, 443.
Appraisers of goods distrained for rent, to be sworn by con-
stable, 108.
Apprehending offenders without warrant, 96, 98, whilst in the
act of committing the offence, 96, in the case of riots, 98,
hawkers, 99, vagrants, 99;-after the offence committed,
101;-in prevention of offences, 102;—
;-on hue and cry, 103;
-when and where, 103;-how, 103.
Apprehending an offender under a warrant, 104 ;-warrant in
what cases and how, 104, or summons and warrant, 104 ;—
warrant how and where executed, 105;-apprehension
under search warrant, 115.
Apprehension, shooting, &c., to prevent, 62;-persons found
in betting houses, 106;-of lunatics wandering at large,
108;-apprehension under a warrant on an information or
complaint before justices, 116;-under a warrant of com-
mitment, 118.
Apprehension, in what cases by borough constables, 63; by
constables on canals and navigable rivers, 85.
Apprenticing poor children, duty of guardians in respect of,
195;-duty of overseers in respect of, 313; apprenticing
to the sea service, 315.
Apprentices, ill-using, or not providing food for, punishment,
202; guardians or overseers when to prosecute, 202, 342.
Army, officers of, exempt from serving as constables, 50.
Arrest by constables, how made, 103; when and where, 103;
party arrested, how disposed of, 106.
Arrest, clergymen when exempt from, 35.
Assaults on constables, punishment, 61; assaulting borough
constables, 65; assaulting constables on canals or navi-
gable rivers, 87; assaulting special constables, 93.
Assaults by masters on apprentices or servants, prosecutions
for, by guardians or overseers, 202, 342.
Assault, arrest for, when, 101, 102.
Assessment to church-rate, 3; when and how made out, 4.
Assistant-overseer disqualified from being guardian, 120; how
appointed, and his duties, 343, 413; his salary, by whom
paid, 333.
Assistance to constable, when and by whom to be given, 102, 103.
Asylum for lunatics, order to send pauper to, 178.
Attempt to shoot, to prevent apprehension, 61.
Attorney, exempt from serving as churchwarden, 11; or as
constable, 50.
Attorney employed by overseers, when to be paid, 333; his
bill, when and by whom taxed, 373; when clerk to the
guardians, what duties he shall perform, 355.
Audit of overseers' accounts, by justices of the peace, 330; by
the district auditor, 371. See "Accounts."
Audit of accounts of relieving officer, 358.
Auditing of accounts, 381.
Auditors of unions and parishes therein. See "District
Auditors."
Auditors appointed under stat. 1 & 2 W. 4, c. 60, p. 418;
adoption of the Act by a parish, 418; election of auditor,
421; their number and qualification, 424, 425; their
mode of audit, 428; abstract of the accounts to be pub-
lished, 429.
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