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Shall be provided & kept in every Parish(at the Charge
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of the same Parish)a Book or Books wherein the Names
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of all such Persons who do or may receive Collection shall
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be Registered with the Day & Par when they were first
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admitted to have Releif & the Occasion which brought
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them under that Necessity: And that yearly in Easter
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Week(or as Often as it shall be Thought Convenient)the
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Parishioners of every Parish shall meet in their Vestry
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or other usuall Place of meeting in the same Parish
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before whom the sd. Book shall be Produced & all Persons
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receiving Collection to be called over & the Reasons of their
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Taking Releife Examined & a new List made & Entered of
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such Persons as they shall think fitt & allow to receive of
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the sd. Parish that no other Person be allowed to have or
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receive Collection at the Charge of the sd. Parish but by
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the Authority under the Hand of one Justice of Peace residing
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within such Parish(if none be there dwelling)in the Parts
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near or next adjoyning or by Order of the Justices in their
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Respective quarter Sessions Except in Cases of Pestilential
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Deseases Plague or small Pox & for in Respect of such
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Familys only as are or shall be there with Infected
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Stat 9: Geo 1: Chap 7: which Recites the former Stat 3: W & M:
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Sect 1: Directs that no Justice of Peace shall Order Releife
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to any poor Person till Bath be made of a Reasonable Cause
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& Summons of Two of the Overseers of the Poor to show Cause
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why such Releife should not be given:
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Bet 2:- Be it further Enacted by the authority aforesd.
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that the Person whom such Justice of Peace shall think
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fitt to Order to be Received shall be Entered in such Book
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or Books so to be kept by the Parish as one of these who is
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to receive Collection as long as the Cause for such Releife
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continues & no longer & that no Officer of any Parish
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shall(Except upon sudden & Emergent Occasions)bring
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to the Account of the Parish any Monies he shall give to
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any poor Person of the same Parish who is not registered
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in such Book or Books to kept by the sd. Parish as a Person
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Entitiled to Receive Collection on Pain of Forfeiting the Sum
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of five Pounds to be levied by Dishess & Sale by Warrt: of any
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Two or more Justies of the Peace of the same County who
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