单词 | poor law commissioner |
释义 | > as lemmasPoor Law commissioner General attributive, as Poor Law bill, Poor Law commissioner, Poor Law officer, Poor Law system, etc. ΚΠ 1774 W. Greaves Reasons for Law to prevent Unnecessary Removals of Poor 8 He..takes the liberty of submitting to calm and public consideration, whether that act (which makes up so material a part of our Poor law-system) has not been greatly misunderstood, or most strangely perverted. 1817 Times 30 Aug. 2/5 Among the many other consequences of our poor law system, the pernicious bounty which it holds up to the premature marriages of young peasants and manufacturing labourers, has been too frequently dwelt upon to need much further elucidation. 1838 Dyott's Diary 16 May II. 272 A Mr. Stevens, one of the poor law commissioners, dined. 1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida I. xi. 110 How the new Poor Law Bill will work remains to be proved. 1885 Sir C. Dilke in Daily News 14 Oct. 6/1 Highway parishes and land-tax parishes, as distinguished from poor-law parishes, and other anomalies. 1918 D. Irving Let. 25 Feb. in K. Gregory First Cuckoo (1978) 106 I have, within the last two days, been present at a meeting of a committee of women Poor Law Guardians in one of our great provincial cities. 1965 Mod. Law Rev. 28 v. 512 In the eighteenth century control of local government had been exercised by the Courts in Westminster Hall, through supervisory powers over J.P.s and Poor Law Boards. 1992 Raritan Summer 141 He depended upon exhaustive interviewing of schoolboard visitors, poor-law officials,..and the like. < as lemmas |
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