A'BECKETT G. A. 281. 282. 321.
Able-bodied adult paupers, number
of, 13.

in London, number of, 42.
and total number of paupers
receiving out-door relief, number of,

18. 378.

— men receiving relief on one day
and during the half year, number of,

18.

-

paupers in a quarter, number of
paupers and, (1842—48), 14.;
these returns inaccurate, as includ-
ing vagrants, 15.; but useful as ap-
proximating to the number of pau-
pers in a year, 16.; inferences drawn
from them by the Poor Law Board
unfounded, 17.

Accident, persons chargeable on ac-
count of temporary sickness or, are
not to be removed, 276.
Acland, T. D. 298.
Administrative reform, Poor Law
Amendment Act was an important
step, but was little more than, 265.
274.

Adult paupers, number of, 13.

women form the largest part of,

19.
"Adventures Advenues en France, Les,"

161 n.

Agricultural and manufacturing coun-
ties, amount of poor-rate in the
pound in, 73.

comparison of crime in, 82.
in Scotland, proportion of pau-
pers to inhabitants in, 60.

number of insane paupers in, 126.
number of paupers in, 76.; ap-
portionment of them, 78.

number of paupers and of ille-
gitimate children in union work-
houses in, 120. 393.

population, value of property

and net rental of real estate per head
on population in, 66. 69.
Agricultural and manufacturing coun-
ties, proportion as to average of Eng-
land of illegitimate births in, 121.392.

proportion as to the average of
England of men who sign the mar-
riage register with marks in, 89.

391.

-, proportion of criminals in, 83.
proportion of paupers to inhabit-
ants in, 76.

and England, acres of land per
head on population in, 70. 388.

and England, proportion of lu-
natic and idiot paupers to population
in, 126.

London and England, average
mortality in, 69. 388.

Middlesex, Surrey, and England,
number of lunatic and idiot paupers
in, 126. 394.

Agricultural counties, and in four
other agricultural counties, number
of prisoners committed for trial per
thousand on the population in, 86.
391.

and in London, poor-rate per head
on population in, 74. 79.

and three towns, comparison of
pauperism in two, shown by rate
per head on population of expend-
iture for relief, 79. 390.

-, charities in, 70.

-, comparison of pauperism in, and
in Scotland, 79.

comparison of pauperism in, and
in Ireland, 80.

(four), expenditure for relief per
head on population in, 86.
ignorance in, 88.

in 1844 and 1845, expenditure
for relief in, and increase per cent of
the latter, 132. 395.

Bastardy law, demoralising and inju-

rious influence of, 123. 199.

Beaumanoir, 165 n.

Bedford, Duke of, 291. 296 n.

"Bureau des Longitudes, Annuaire

du" (1851), 127 n. 387.

Buret, M. 20. 379.

Burn, Dr. 177. 239. 248. 266.

rates in the, 332.

Beg, licenses to. See "Justices."
Beggars. See "Vagrants."
Belgium, and Departement du Nord,
France, sum distributed by Bureaux
de Bienfaisance in, and rate per
head on population and on paupers
of same, 387.

Bequest "to Christ," was, under Justi-
nian, to be distributed to the poor,
141.

Berkshire, Resolutions of justices of,
adopting the allowance system, 357.
Beugnot M. 152 n. 165 n.
Bill for establishing parochial manu-
factories, House of Commons in
1704, passed a, 243.

Birmingham, expenditure for relief,
and number of in-door and out-door
paupers in, 72. 390.

income of, and number of per-
sons relieved by charities in, 72.
Birth, settlement by, absurdity
present law of, 269.

of

settlement by, Commissioners
for inquiring into poor laws (1834),
recommended the adoption of, ex-
lusively, 265.

Bishops were, by the Canon Law, to
administer relief to the destitute,
145. 148.

Blackstone, Sir W. 99, 100. 183 n.
209.

Board of Trade, Report from, to the

Lords Justices (1696), 235.
Boards of Guardians. See "Guar-

dians."

Boccaccio, 161n.

Bodkin, W. H. 278.

Boehmer, 147 n.

Book of Common Prayer of Church of
England, 159.

"Bread for the Poor," 237.
"British and Foreign Medico-Chi-
rurgical Review," 99.

"British Association, Transactions of
the," 45. 47.

Brodie, G. 179 n.

Cecil, Mr. Secretary, 210. 213.
"Central society of education, third

publication of," (1839) 116 n.
Certificates to settled paupers to re-
move into other parishes, 8 & 9 W. 3,
c. 30, gave power to parish officers
and two justices to grant, 238; they
became practically useless by 35
Geo. 3, c. 101. 252.

de Chamborant, C. G. 209.
Channing, Dr. 130.

Chargeability, actual, a necessary con-
dition to removal of the poor, by 35
Geo. 3, c. 101. 252.

removal not to take place until
after 21 days' notice of, sent, 262.
Charges, establishment, or union. See
"Union charges."

Charities, income of, and number of
persons relieved by, in Birmingham,

72.

income of in agricultural coun-

Brooke, Mr. 252.

Brussel, 234 n. 350 n.

Bryant, Mr. 335.

Buller, Mr. Charles, 227. 280. 307.

1848) as to vagrancy, 363.

land, 2.