A. D. Year of Reign. Cap. Sec.

Subject, Page.

R. An Act for erecting workhouses and houses of
correction in the town of Kingston-upon-
Hull, for the employment and maintenance
of the poor there.

Recites that, it was found by experience that
the poor in the town of Kingston-upon-Hull do
daily multiply, and through idleness or want
of employment and sufficient authority to
compel them thereunto, become indigent and
disorderly; and, that many poor children that
might be taught to get themselves a main-
tenance, are accustomed to begging and wan-
dering, against which public mischief sufficient
redress hath not been provided.

It is enacted, that from 1st June, 1698, there shall be a corporation consisting of the Mayor, recorder and aldermen, and twenty-four other persons to be elected by the inhabitants, paying 2d. per week poor rates.

That the corporation be called the governor, deputy governor, assistants and guardians of the poor, may sue and be sued by that name, may purchase lands and elect officers.

Penalty on persons elected officers, not serving.

Time and manner of holding courts. Corporation empowered to have a Common Seal, make By-Laws, purchase and erect Workhouses, take up idle persons, and set children to work and bind them apprentices.

Court may inflict punishment on poor persons misbehaving.

Sums necessary for erecting Workhouse (not exceeding £2000,) and for maintenance of the poor (not exceeding what had been paid in any one of the preceding years) to be certified by the corporation to the Mayor, Recorder and Aldermen, who shall cause the same to be raised and levied by taxation of every inhabitant, and of all lands, houses, tythes impropriate, appropriation of tythes, and all stocks and estates in the said town and the lordship of Myton, in equal proportions according to their respective values, and apportion the same upon each parish and precinct within the said town, and shall cause the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of each respective parish to assess and levy the same, and to pay the same unto the treasurer or treasurers of the said corporation for the time being.

Persons aggrieved may appeal.

If Mayor refuse to issue warrant for the
assessment of the rate, corporation empowered
to issue warrants for that purpose.

Any person giving £50 may be elected a
guardian.
Corporation to provide for the poor, and set
idle persons to work.

Alms Houses not to be subject to the cor-
poration.

Corporation may choose other officers and allow them salaries.

1698.9 11 Gul. III. 18

Subject.

R. An Act for the more effectual punishment of
vagrants, and sending them whither by law
they ought to be sent.

8 Recital, that there is an ancient hospital or
corporation in the town of Kingston-upon-Hull,
called or known by the name of the guild or
brotherhood of masters and pilots seamen of
the Trinity-House, in Kingston-upon-Hull,
founded upon the encouragement of shipping
and navigation, and for the relief of poor dis-
tressed seamen, their widows and children,
within the said town of Kingston-upon-Hull.

ib.

ib.

And reciting that by an act passed in the 9th and 10th Gul. II. intituled "An Act for erecting workhouses and houses of correction, in the town of Kingston-upon-Hull, for the employment and maintenance of the poor there," wherein is contained a clause, that all charitable gifts, devises and dispositions that shall hereafter be given, devised, or disposed to or for the use of the said town, or of any place within the same, shall be paid to the corporation in the said act mentioned, to and for the use of the poor of the said town; by which clause all gifts made by seafaring men, or others, well disposed for the endowment of the said hospital of the Trinity-House, in Kingston-upon-Hull, for the better and further maintenance of the said distressed seamen, their widows and children, are or may be prevented or discouraged to bestow any charitable benefaction thereon, lest the same should be or be claimed, to be applied to the use of the poor of the said town, in general, contrary to the intention of such benefactors, by means whereof the said hospital is likely to be greatly prejudiced by the clause aforesaid, and other clauses in the said act.

It is enacted that the said clause shall be repealed, and that neither the said clause, or any other thing in the said act contained, shall affect the said hospital or corporation of the TrinityHouse, or to the prejudice of the poor belonging thereto, but shall stand repealed and void.

An Act for the public registering of all deeds,
conveyances, wills, and other incumbrances
within the East Riding of the county of
York, or the town and county of the town
of Kingston-upon-Hull, after the 29th Sept.
1708.

1707

6 Anne. 62

Page.

Memorials of wills to be registered within six months after the death of devisor or testatrix, in England; and within three years after the death of devisor or testatrix beyond sea.

If wills contested, a memorial of such contest to be registered..

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Bargain and sale enrolled at register office, as effectual as in the courts at Westminster.

No judgment to affect lands until registered, crown excepted.

For other clauses see the act.

R. An Act for the more effectual provision for the
poor in the town of Kingston-upon-Hull.
Recites 9 and 10 Gul. III. c. 47.

That the poor had so increased, that the
yearly assessments fell short of answering the
necessity of such poor.

It is enacted that after the 1st May, 1710, the corporation constituted by the recited act, shall assess such further sum annually, not exceeding £130 per annum, to be employed for the purposes mentioned in the former act, all the clauses of which were confirmed.

No person shall be assessed towards the raising of the said assessment who was not or shall not hereafter be assessed by virtue of the former act at 2d. or more per week.

R. An Act for explaining, amending, and making
more effectual two acts of parliament, one
passed in the 9th and 10th years of the reign
of his late Majesty King William the Third,
for erecting workhouses, and houses of cor-
rection, in the town of Kingston-upon-Hull,
for the employment and maintenance of the
poor there; and the other passed in the eighth
year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen
Anne, for the more effectual provision of the
poor in the said town.

Recites 9 and 10 Gul, III. c. 18. and 8 Anne
c, 24.

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Subject.

That, by reason of the great increase in the
number of inhabitants in the said Town since
the making of the said recited act, (which is
computed to be about one half more than it
was then, and is yet increasing) the poor is
become so numerous that the sums raised, with
the revenues and other incomes of the said cor-
poration, are not sufficient for the maintenance
of the said poor. It is enacted, that after the
Ist May, 1742, the corporation shall be em-
powered to ascertain and certify such sum as
shall be necessary for the maintenance of the
poor, not exceeding in any one year £650, to
be apportioned and assessed by the Mayor &c.
Disposition of the Money.
Penalty for neglect of duty.
Power to deduct charges of distraining.
Corporation invested with powers of the
former act.

Power to displace or remove Guardians.
All the powers of former act to extend to
this act.

Mayor and Aldermen not to make alterations
in assessments, but in open court at Quarter
Sessions on appeal.

Limitation of actions.

Persons sued may plead the general issue, and give special matter in evidence, and recover treble costs.

Act declared to be a public act.

E. An Act for repairing the Road between the
town of Kingston-upon-Hull and the town of
Beverley, in the East Riding of the county
of York.

E. An Act for repairing the Road leading from the
town of Kingston-upon-Hull, to and through
the town of Anlaby, and from thence to the
town of Kirkella, in the county of the said
town of Kingston-upon-Hull.

E. An Act for repairing the Road leading from a
gate commonly called Sacred Gate, on the
south east side of the town of Hedon, in the
East Riding of the county of York, through
the said town to Hull North Bridge.

An Act for vesting the equity of redemption of
divers messuages, lands, and hereditaments,
in Kingston-upon-Hull, and the county of
York, late the estate of George Dawson, Esq.
deceased, in Roper Dawson, his eldest son
and heir, upon his undertaking to discharge
the several incumbrances affecting the same,
and to make a provision for his brothers and
sisters.

R.* An Act for explaining, amending, and mak-
ing more effectual several acts of parliament
relating to the maintenance and employment
of the poor of the town of Kingston-upon-Hull,
and for better paving. preserving, and cleans-

Repealed so far as relates to the Poor.

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