Poor Relief Act 1691

II. The Note of Settlement must be read in the Church and registered in the Poors Book.

But forasmuch as the said Acts are somewhat defective and doubtfull for supplying and explaining the same Be it further provided and enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Forty days co[n]tinuance of such person in a Parish or Towne intended by the said Acts to make a Settlement shall be accounted from the Publication of a Notice in Writing which he or she shall deliver of the House of his or her Abode and the number of his or her Family if he or she have any to the Churchwarden or Overseer of the Poor which said Notice in Writing the said Churchwarden or Overseer of the Poor is or are hereby required to read or cause to be read publickely immediately after Divine Service in the Church or Chappel of the said Parish or Towne on the next Lords day when there shall be Divine Service in the same And the said Churchwarden or Overseer of the Poor is or are hereby required to register or cause to be registred the said Notice in Writing in the Book kept for the Poors Accounts.