Poor Act 1762
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1762 c. 22 |
| Year | 1762 |
(2 Geo. 3) C A P. XXII.
'W H E R E A S the keeping regular, uniform and annual Registers of all Parish Poor Infants under four Years of Age, within the Bills of Mortality, may be a Means of preserving the Lives of such Infants;' May it therefore please your Majesty, that it may be enacted; and Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, Thatthe Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of every Parish within, the Bills of Mortality, or some one or more of them, shall, on or before the first Day ofJuly in the present Year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-two, provide, or cause to be provided, at the Expence of their respective Parish, one Book of Royal Paper; and the Book belonging to such respective Parish wherein there is or shall Workhouse, Hospital, or other House or Place provided for the Maintenance of the Poor, shall, in every Page, be ruled with distinct Columns, and the Title of each Column shall be wrote or printed in such Page, agreeable to the Schedule hereunto annexed, marked (A); and the Book belonging to each respective Parish wherein there is not, nor shall be, any such Workhouse, Hospital-house or Place, shall, in every Page, be ruled with distinct Columns, and the Title of each Column shall be wrote or printed in such Page, agreeable to the Schedule hereunto annexed, marked (B).
II All Infants under 4 Years of Age, which shall be in any such Workhouse, &c.
II. And be it further enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That the said, Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, or some one or more of them, shall enter, or cause to be entered, in the Book belonging to their respective Parish, and provided in pursuance of this Act, all the Infants under the Age of four Years, which, on the said first Day ofJuly , shall be in the Workhouse or Workhouses, Hospital or Hospitals, or other House or Houses, Place or Places, provided for the Maintenance of the Poorof each Parish, respectively, or under the Care of the said Churchwardens or Overseers of the Poor, with the Times when they were received, their Names, Age, and whatever Description relates to them, as far as can be traced, being agreeable to the Schedules annexed.
III as shall also all Infants under the said Age, which shall be brought to the Workhouse, or be under the Care of the Churchwardens, after the said Day.
III. And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the said first Day ofJuly all Infants under the Age of four Years, who shall be brought to any Work-house or Hospital-house, or Place provided for the Maintenance of the Poor, or be under the Care of the said Churchwardens or Overseers of the Poor, in their respective Parishes, or any of them, shall be, by the said Churchwardens or Overseers of the Poor, or some one or more of them, or by the Direction or Command of some one or more of them, entered regularly in the Book aforesaid, with the Times of their Admittance, and all Circumstances relating to them, agreeable to the Titles and Heads of the Columns in the said Schedules mentioned and set forth.
IV The first annual Register is to commence on the said 1 July, and end on 31 Dec. ensuing; and afterwards to commence on 1 January, and end on 31 December following.
IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the first annual Register hereby intended and directed to be kept, shall shall commence on the said first Day ofJuly , and shall end on the thirty-first Day of December ensuing; and, after that Time, the said annual Register shall commence the first Day of January , and end the thirty-first Day of December following.
V At the Expiration of each Year, all Infants under the Age aforesaid, then living and registered, and not discharged, shall be transferred to the Register for the ensuing Year, previous to any further Entry;
V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid; That after the Expiration of each Year, the Names of all the Infants under four Years of Age, then living and registered in the said annual Register, and not discharged from being under the Care of the Churchwardens or Overseers of the Poor, shall be transferred to the Registers for the Year...
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