This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 edition. Excerpt: ... no better for Scotland to contend, that the statutory law has sunk into disuse; on the contrary, that can only render the disease the more inveterate, and the more difficult of cure. It is evident, from the questions that have been submitted by labourers for legal opinions, whether people out of work ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 edition. Excerpt: ... no better for Scotland to contend, that the statutory law has sunk into disuse; on the contrary, that can only render the disease the more inveterate, and the more difficult of cure. It is evident, from the questions that have been submitted by labourers for legal opinions, whether people out of work are not entitled to parish support, that the opinions of the people in Scotland as to independence, and as to the state of the law, are undergoing a rapid change, and that they may before long be reduced to the same state as in the worst managed parts of England, if acts be not passed to define the law, to limit its operation within proper bounds, and to protect the landed proprietors from their fancied blessings and supposed immunities from poverty. The very unsatisfactory state of the law of Scotland respecting the poor, is ably and forcibly represented by Mr. T. F. Kennedy, in his evidence before the emigration committee. "There can be no doubt," he says, "that, according to the ancient law of Scotland, personal as well as real property is rateable for the poor. In very populous places, and in the border counties, a practice has arisen not very dissimilar to the practice of England, namely, that a legal and compulsory relief has been established; but in the county of Ayr (to which his evidence is principally applied) there cannot be said to be a compulsory relief for the poor: at the same time it should be considered, that on many occasions the proprietors of land come forward in a very liberal manner with a voluntary contribution, in order to avoid what they apprehend would be the consequence if refused, that measures would be taken to compel them to give extensive relief to the poor." Such is the description of a voluntary contribution...
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