Lord John Russell Poor-law Bill Features Outlined
Summary of Lord John Russell's proposed poor law reforms as presented on Friday. Key provisions include appointment and removal of commissioners, rules and orders distinction, rapid effect of urgent orders, proof of rule sending, union dissolutions, parish and union mergers for services, board of management powers, guardianship duties, lunatic asylums visitation, and provisions on infant and infirm poor, parish burials, emigration funding, and apprentice regulations. The bill also extends to London and surrounding counties, with specifics on funding and governance.
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J. Russell Bill
Aehrand
See
Victoria
George III
Board of Management
Middlesex
Surrey
London
Westminster
Metropolitan Police District
Boards of Guardians
Board of Guardians
Consolidated Poor Relief Provisions and Guardian Rules
A sequence of clauses detailing burial costs for paupers, removal notices, and the charge of poor rates to the entire union. It sets rules for guardians appointments, ward divisions, proxy voting limits, and salary payments from poor rates. It limits eligibility of overseers as guardians and outlines audit and appointment processes for officers and guardians. It covers union formation, voting qualifications, and continuity of guardians, also restricting the act to England and Wales with amendatory provisions for the current session.
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Vasay
Board of Guardians
Comecelonels
England and
Wales
Paris fortifications law sets Paris under wall and forts
Paris papers report the fortification act passed by 237 to 162, creating a surrounding wall bastioned and terraced with escarpe and exterior, bomb proof works to be built. Vincennes likely the nearest detached fort. 140 million francs allocated with earlier expenditures. amendment to avoid martial law rejected. Interior minister presents 1,000,000 francs for secret service.
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Vincennes
M. Lherbette
Marshal Soult
Napoleon
14Th Light Infantry
Amiens
Gazette de France
Gazette
Louis Philippe
Louis Philippe d’Orleans
Bugden
Wilmot
Sicily
Cadiz governor orders funds by force for garrison
A military governor in Cadiz, with armed force, confronted the provincial intendant to obtain funds for maintaining the garrison troops. Refugees returning to Spain were reported by Pau on the 20th. Civil registry reforms in Madrid govern deaths births and marriages, while Basque elections favored constitutionalists. Portugal's budget outlines 1841/42 spending, with wage cuts and military expansion under discussion.
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Duke of Victoria
Isabella
Cortes
Madrid Gazette
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Maprio
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Castellano
Cadiz
Pau
Urdax
Bergara
St. Sebastian
Messia
Fermin Lasala
Joaquim Galberon
Tran
Debt figures loom over state finances in canal era
The piece notes the state debt stands at 15,064,746 dollars, excluding loans to railroads and canal companies unlikely to be repaid. It warns that plans to enlarge the Erie Canal could raise the debt to more than 30,000,000 dollars, highlighting fiscal strains of the period.
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Uri
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Schaffhausen
M. de Bombelles
Universal Gazette of
Meni
Wellingen
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M‘leod
Lockport
Caroline
Mackenzie
Mexico
New Orleans
Texas
Missouri
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Porter
State of New York
Metropolis Debates Opening Lambeth Bridges Toll Abolition
A large public meeting in Lambeth, chaired by Mr Hawes and with MPs Tennyson D Eyncourt and others, votes to open the Thames bridges and explore metropolitan improvement funding. Debate covers cost of Waterloo, Southwark and Vauxhall bridges, coal duty, and equitable redemption through Parliament. The motion passes unanimously with caution about prioritizing local wishes.
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Hardy
Fall
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Revoru Cius-Houss
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Szamen
King William-street
John Labouchere
Friends of the Association
Friends of the Hospital
Newcastle
North
South Shields
Sunderland
Hartlepool
Stockton
Whitby
Scarborough
Yarmouth
Betalem Hospital
Badewell and
Bethlem Hospitals
Bethlem Hospital
Southey
Mayo
Lord Normanby
Peter Laurie
House Committee
Sergeant Adams
Middlesex
Brighton Shaft Accident At Clayton Tunnel Damages Boy
A fatal accident occurred at shaft No 6 in Clayton tunnel on the London and Brighton line near Cuckfield. A boy named Marshall, guiding earth skids, was crushed when a rope failed and the drum revolved, leaving him severely injured and sent to Sussex County Hospital where his prospects were hopeless. This marks the fourth incident at that shaft, causing major alarm among workers below.
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Brighton
Clayton Tunnel
London and
Marshall
Sussex County Hospital
Bristol
Christopher George
George
J. George
Maze
Mr. George
King
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