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Poor Rate Act 1743

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 6 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Anno decimo septimo GEORGII II. Regis. An Act to oblige Overseers of the Poor to give publick Notice of Rates made for the Relief of the Poor, and to produce the same.

(17 Geo. 2) C A P. III.

'WHEREAS great Inconveniencies do often arise in Cities, Towns Corporate, Parishes, Townships and Places, by reason of the unlimited Power of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, who frequently on frivolous Pretences, and for private Ends, make unjust and illegal Rates in a secret and clandestine Manner, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of a Statute made in the forty and third Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth , intituled, ;' For Remedy whereof, and preventing the like Abuses for the future, 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 Parliamentassembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the first Day ofMay one thousand seven hundred and forty-four, the Churchwardens and Overseers, or other Persons authorized to take Care of the Poor in every Parish, Township or Place, shall give, or cause to be given, publick Notice in the Church, of every Rate for the Relief of the Poor, allowed by the Justices of Peace, the next Sunday after the same shall have been so allowed; and that no Rate shall be esteemed or reputed valid and sufficient, so as to collect and raise the same, unless such Notice shall have been given.

S-II The Rates to be inspected by any Inhabitant, and Copies taken.

II The Rates to be inspected by any Inhabitant, and Copies taken.

II. And be it further enacted, That the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, or other Persons authorized as aforesaid, in every Parish, Township or Place, shall permit all and every the Inhabitants of the said Parish, Township or Place, to inspect every such Rate at all seasonable Times, paying one Shilling for the same, and shall upon Demand forthwith give Copies of the same or any Part thereof, to any Inhabitant of the said Parish, Township or Place, paying at the Rate of six Pence for every twenty-four Names.

S-III Penalty on not permitting any Inhabitant to inspect, &c.

III Penalty on not permitting any Inhabitant to inspect, &c.

III. And be it further enacted, That if any Churchwarden or...

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