CHURCH RATE, 1:-1. How made, 1:—what and in what
cases, 1; the vestry meeting, 1; the assessment, 3. Chapel
rate, 4.
2. Payment of the church rate, how enforced, 5;
in the ecclesiastical court, 5; before justices of the
peace, 5, complaint, 6, summons, 6, hearing, 7, order, 8,
appeal, 11.
CHURCHWARDENS, 11:—who, 11;-when and by whom
chosen, 11;-their rights and duties, 12;-actions, &c.
by and against them, 13. Churchwardens in new dis-
tricts, 13.
CLERGYMEN OF THE PARISH, 13;-who, 13;-advowson,
14; tithes, 23; their rights and privileges, 35; their
duties, 36.
COLLECTOR OF THE POOR RATE, 40:-in parishes not in
unions, 40 ;-in parishes in unions, 40; his appointment,
40;-queries to be answered before appointment by
guardians, 42; his qualification, 43; his duties, 43; his
accounts, 44; his salary, 47; security, 47; continuance
in office, 48.
CONSTABLE, 49. Petty Constables, 49:-1. Who may be,
49;-who qualified, 49, who exempted, 49, who dis-
qualified, 50.
2. How chosen and sworn into office, 51;-special
sessions, 52, precepts to the overseers, 52, lists by vestry,
52; union of parishes for the purpose, 52; overseers to
return the lists, 53; appointment, 54; swearing in, 54;
substitutes, 55; lists of those appointed, 55; refusing to
serve, 55; vacancy by death, refusal to serve, &c., 55.
4. Constables' fees, allowances, &c., 58:-their ordi-
nary fees, allowances, &c., 58; expenses on account of
parish, 59.
5. Their punishment for offences, 59 ;-extortion, 59;
false imprisonment, 59; neglecting duty or disobeying
orders of justices, 60; permitting escape, 60.
6. Constables, how protected, 61-actions against
them, 61; assaulting them, 61; killing or being killed
by them, 61.
2. Borough Constables, 62;-how appointed and regu-
lated, 62; their duties, 63; in what cases they may take
bail, 64; penalty for neglect of duty, 64; assaulting
them in the execution of their duty, 65; their wages,
expenses, &c., 65.
3. County Constables, 66:—in what cases appointed,
66; appointment of the chief constable, 68; deputy chief
constable, 69; superintendents, &c., 70; appointment
of the petty constables, 70. Station-houses, 71; their
exemption from toll, 73; their powers and duties, 73;
neglect of duty, 73; publicans harbouring them, 74;
their dismissal, 75. Local constables, 75. Their pay,
fees, &c. 76; superannuation fund, 77; superannuation
to chief constables, 79. Private constables, 79. Inspec-
tors, 79; returns, 80: expenses, 80.
4. Borough and County Constables consolidated, 81.
5. Constables on Canals and Navigable Rivers, 83:-
their appointment, 83; how and by whom paid, 84;
their power and duties, 84; neglect of duty, 86; their
dismissal, 86; assaulting them, 87; actions against
them, 87.
6. Special Constables, 88:-in what cases and how
appointed, 88; refusal to be sworn, or to serve, 89;
where and how they may act, 90; service determined, 91;
their allowance and expenses, 92; assaulting or resisting
them, 93. Special constables in boroughs, 93.
7. Duties of Constables, 94:-as to ale-houses and
beer-houses, 95;-apprehending offenders without war-
rant, 96, in the act of committing the offence, 96, in
case of riots, 98, as to hawkers, 99, and vagrants, 99;
after the offence committed, 101; in prevention of offences,
102; on hue and cry, 103; when and where, 103; how,
103.-Apprehension of an offender under a warrant, 104,
warrant, in what cases and how, 104, or summons and
warrant, 104, warrant, how, and where executed, 105.
Betting houses, 106.-As to confession of prisoner, 106.-
Coroner's jury, summoning, 107.-County rate, 107.-
Distress for rent, 108.-Lunatics found wandering at
large, 108.-Military, 109: billeting troops on service,
109, billeting the guards, 111; offences with respect to
billeting, 111; -Militia, 112.-Prosecuting disorderly
houses, gaming houses, &c., 114.-Search warrant, 115.
-Summons, service of, 116.-Warrant to apprehend on
an information or complaint, 116.-Warrant of distress
upon a conviction, &c., 117, how executed, 117, in what
cases backed, 117, how returned, 118.-Warrant of com-
mitment on a conviction or order, 118.
GUARDIANS OF THE POOR, 119:-1. Guardians in Unions,
119; their number and qualification, 119; how elected,
120; malpractices at elections, 126; justices of the peace
guardians ex officio, 127; guardians incorporated, how
to sue and be sued, 127; their meetings, 128; proceed-
ings of the board, 129; contracts by them, 131; mode
of obtaining contributions to union funds, 133; payments
by them, 135; custody of bonds, 135; what costs they
may pay, 135; their duty in maintaining the poor out of
the parish funds, 136; their duty as to able-bodied poor,
139; relief to married women, 149; relief to widows,
149; relief to the families of absent seamen, 149; relief to
casual poor, 151; their duty as to non-settled and non-resi-
dent poor, 151; their duty in maintaining the poor out of
the union fund, 152; their duty as to burying paupers,
153. Government of the workhouse, 154; admission of
paupers, 155; classification of paupers, 156; discipline
and diet of paupers, 158; punishment for misbehaviour
of paupers, 162; visiting committee, 165; repairs and
alteration of workhouse, 167. Their duty as to pauper
lunatics, 167; as to expenses of maintenance and removal,
&c. of pauper and other lunatics, 182. Their duty in
enabling the poor to emigrate, 193; their duty in bind-
ing pauper apprentices, 195; their certificate of charge-
ability, 199; their duty as to payment of county rate,
200; their duty as to vaccination, 201; their duty in
prosecuting for certain offences, 202; their duty in respect
to the removal of Irish and Scotch paupers, 202. Their
clerk, 204.
2. Guardians of the Poor for Single Parishes, 206.
3. Guardians of the Poor under Local Acts, &c.,
207.
HIGHWAYS, 209:-I. Highway Rate, 209; by whom and
how made, 209; form and amount, 209; errors in it,
how rectified, 210; what persons excused, 210; rates
how recovered, 210; composition for rates, 210; appeal
against a rate, 210.
II. Highways, Surveyors of, 212:-1. Appointment
of officers for the repair, &c., of the highways, 212; sur-
veyors for single parishes, &c., 212; officers in large
parishes, 213; officers appointed in districts, 214.
2. The Duties of Surveyor, 217 :-to repair the high-
ways, 217; materials purchased, 217; materials from
waste lands, 218; materials from inclosed lands, 219;
damage in getting materials, 220; penalty for taking
away materials, 221; repairs how compelled by petty
sessions, 222; repairs how compelled by indictment, 224;
width of the highways, 224; width of gates, 225; way
whilst highway repairing, 225; parish when compelled
to contribute to repair turnpike roads, 225.
Duty of surveyor to widen highways, 227.
Duty of surveyor to stop up or divert highways, 230;-
previous application to justices, 230; justices' view and
certificate, 231; order where there is more than one high-
way, 232; appeal, 232; order of sessions, 234; liability
to repair the new way, 235.
Duty of surveyor to erect direction posts, &c., 235; to
remove snow or other obstructions, 235.
Duty of surveyor to prosecute for nuisances, 236;-
trees near the highway, 236; hedges, 236; ditches, 237;
encroachments, 239; steam-engines, windmills, &c., 239;
gates on railways, 240; riding on footpaths, injuring the
road, making fires, &c., 240; matters laid on highways,
241; cattle straying on highways, 242; nuisances at
common law, 243.
Duty of surveyor to account, deliver up books, &c.,
243;-To account, 243; to deliver up books, &c., on
quitting office, 244.
3. Penalties for neglect of duty, 245.
Penalties how recovered, &c., 245; securing unknown
offenders, 245; summons, information, &c., 245; wit-
nesses, 246; penalties, &c., how levied, 246.
LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOR THE REMOVAL OF NUISANCES,
248.-1. The local authority, 248; how in extra-paro-
chial places, 249; sanitary inspector, 250; expenses how
defrayed, 250.
2. Nuisances, 252; what, 252; open ditches, &c., 253;
water corrupted by gas washings, 254; unwholesome
provisions, 254; noxious trades, &c., 255; over-crowded
houses, 256.
3. Proceedings to abate them, 256; notice of nuisance,
256; entry to view, 257; complaint, summons and
order, 260; how if party complained of cannot be found,
264; the proceedings, 265; penalties, 266; costs and
expenses, 269; appeal, 270; actions, &c., 271.
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, 272-1. Their appointment,
272; who may be appointed, 272; for parishes, 274; for
townships, hamlets, &c., 274; for extra-parochial places,
278; when, 279; how, 280; appointment, how enforced,
282; appeal against the appointment, 282.
2. Their Duties, 284:-their duty in relieving the
poor in single parishes, &c., where there are no guardians
or select vestry, 284; parish poor, 284; able-bodied
poor, 286; casual poor, 287; prisoners, 288; in the
workhouse, 289; out of the workhouse, 289.
Their duty in relieving the poor in parishes in unions
or under select vestries, 291.
Their duty in connection with the election of guar-
dians, 294.
Their duty in removing the poor, 295; in what cases
generally and how, 295; in particular cases, 297.
Their duty as to the poor rate, 299:-1. Making and
collecting the rate, 299; on whom, 299; how, 300; new
valuation of the rateable property, 300; form of the rate,
301, its allowance and publication, 304; inspection of it
to be granted, 304; collection of it, 304. 2. As to levy-
ing the rate, 303; in what cases, 305; rate demanded,
305; complaint, 305; summons, 307; warrant of dis-
tress, 307; costs, 309; commitment in default of dis-
tress, 309; tender of rate and costs, 310; how, where an
appeal is pending, 310; how, in case of rate-payers
removing, 311; in what place the distress may be levied,
312.
Duties of overseers in other respects, 313:-appren-
ticing poor children, 313; apprentices to the sea service,
315; beer-house, 316; borough or county rate, 316;
burying dead bodies, 318; constables' list, 319; disor-
derly houses, gaming houses, &c., 319; gaol passes,
319; lists of voters for guardians, 320: jury lists, 320;
lunatics, 323; registration of parliamentary voters for
counties, 323; the like for boroughs, 325; attending
revising barristers, 329; overseers' expenses as to regis-
tration, &c., 330.
3. Their Accounts.— Parishes not in union, 330;
overseers to account, 330; accounts to be examined and
allowed, 331; what disbursements to be allowed, 331;
appeal, 331.
4. Frauds and Offences, &c., by Overseers, 335 :—
frauds with respect to settlements, 335; neglect of duty,
or disobeying the orders of justices, 337; embezzling
money, &c., 338; being concerned in furnishing goods,
&c., for the poor, 339.
5. Actions, &c., by or against them, 340:-actions,
&c., by them, 340; recovery of parish houses, &c., 340;
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