Poor Apprentices, etc. Act 1814
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1814 c. 107 |
| Year | 1814 |
(54 Geo. 3) C A P. CVII.
[23d July 1814]
'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Forty third Year of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth, intituledAn Act for the Relief of the Poor , it is enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Churchwardens and Overseers, or the Poor of any Parish, or the greater Part of them, by the Assent of Two Justices of the Peace, to bind the Children of such Parents as shall not by the said Churchwardens and Overseers, or the greater Part of them, be thought able to maintain their Children, to be Apprentices: And Whereas by an Act paid in the Eighth and Ninth Year of His late Majesty King the Third, intituledAn Act for supplying some Defects in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom , it is enacted, That Persons coming to inhabit in any Parish, Township or Place, shall bring with them a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, or the major Part of them, of some other Parish, Township or Place, thereby owning and acknowledging the Person or Persons mentioned in the said Certificate, to be an Inhabitant or Inhabitants legally settled in that Parish, Township or Place: And Whereas divers Parishes contain within themselves several Townships, Hamlets or Chapelries, each of which separately maintains its own Poor: And Whereas in such Parishes the Churchwardens are for the most Part sworn into their Offices as Churchwardens of the whole Parish, although in Truth and in Fact they act as Churchwardens of the separate Townships, Hamlets or Chapelries therein contained: And Whereas divers Indentures for the binding of Parish Apprentices, and Certificates of the Settlements of Poor Persons, have heretofore been signed and executed by a Person or Persons styling himself or themselves, and stated in such Indentures and Certificates, to be Churchwarden or Churchwardens, Chapelwarden or Chapelwardens, of the Township, Hamlet or Chapelry, binding such poor Apprentices, or granting such Certificate: And Whereas such Person or Persons have not been sworn into the Office of Churchwarden or Chapelwardens of such Township, Hamlet or Chapelry, but of Churchwarden of the Parish wherein such Township, Hamlet or Chapelry is contained;' Be it therefore enacted by The King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and...
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