Poor Relief Act 1662

V. Regulations of the like Nature for Workhouses within the Bills of Mortality.

Quarter Sessions to require Accounts of Receipts and Payments of Officers;; and of the State of the Workhouses.; President, &c. to have Succession; how to be sued.; May purchase Lands not exceeding £ 3000 per Annum;; may take Gifts of Personal Estate;; may meet and keep Courts, &c.; and may appoint a Common Seal.

And for the said places within the weekely Bills of Mortality in the said Counties of Middlesex and Surrey respectively there shall be elected and chosen by the major part of the Justices of the Peace for the said Còunties in theire respective Quarter Sessions assembled out of the most able and honest Inhabitants and Freeholders of every of the said Counties of Middlesex and Surrey respectively a President a Deputy President a Treasurer and Assistants for the Corporation or Corporations Workhouse or Workhouses of the places aforesaid in Middlesex and Surrey And that upon the vacancy by death or otherwise of any [X1 of] the Presidents Deputy Presidents Treasurers or Assistants in the City of Westminster and places aforesaid in Middlesex and Surrey the power to elect others in theire roomes be in the major part of the respective Justices of Peace who in theire General Quarter Sessions from time to time shall accordingly supply such vacant places And that at every Quarter Sessions they shall require and take an account in writing of all the Receipts Charges and Disbursements of the Officers and Treasurer of such Corporac[i]on or Corporac[i]ons Workhouse or Workhouses how and how many Poore people have beene imployed and set to worke in the yeare last past and what stock there was and is remaining which President Deputy President and Treasurer for the time being respectively shall for ever hereafter in name and fact be Bodies Politique & Corporate in Law to all intents and purposes and shall have a perpetual Succession and may sue or plead or be sued and impleaded by the Name of the President and Governours for the Poore of the respective places aforementioned in all Courts and Places of Judicature within this Kingdome and the Dominion of Wales and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed And by that Name every of the said Corporations shall and may without License in Mortmain purchase or receive any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments not exceeding the yearely value of Three thousand pounds per annu[m] of the Gift Alienation or Devise of any person or persons who are hereby without further License enabled to give the same and any Goods Chattels or su[m]ms of money whatsoever to the use intent and purposes hereafter limited and appointed And the each respective Corporation or any Seaven of them shall have hereby Power and Authority from time to time to meet and keepe Courts for the ends and purposes in this act expressed at such time and place as shall be appointed by the said President his Deputy or the Treasurer who are hereby required upon the desire of any foure of the said Corporation at any time to cause a Court to be warned accordingly And shall have hereby Aoverbar said Corporation

Editorial Information

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