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POOR RELIEF (IRELAND).
COPIES of Four Orders of the Poor Law Commissioners to .Unions
in Ireland.
Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 3 August 1844.
WORKHOUSE RULES.
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To the Guardians of the Poor of the several Unions named in the Schedule hereunto annexed, and the Officers of the Workhouses of such Unions; To the Clerk or Clerks to the Justices of the Petty Sessions held for the Division or Divisions in which the Townlands and Places comprised within the said Unions are situate; and to all others whom it may concern.
WE, the Poor Law Commissioners, in pursuance of the authorities vested
in us, by an Act passed in the second year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled, " An Act for the more effectual Relief of the Destitute Poor in Ireland," and by the Acts amending the same, do hereby order, direct, and declare, with respect to each and every of the unions named in the Schedule hereunto annexed, and with respect to the government of the work¬ house in the said unions, as follows :—
Admission of Paupers.
Article 1.—Every
pauper who shall be admitted into the workhouse, either upon his first or any subsequent admission, shall be admitted in one of the following modes only, that is to say ;— * 1.
By a written or printed order of the Board of Guardians, signed by their clerk or presiding chairman.
2.
By the master of the workhouse (or, during his absence or inability to act, by the matron), without any such order, in case of any sudden and urgent necessity, or in case of his receiving a written recommendation from a warden to admit, provisionally, any person or persons mentioned by name therein, whom the master shall, on due examination of the circumstances of the case, believe to be destitute, and deem to he a proper object for admission to the workhouse.
Article 2.—No
pauper shall be admitted under any written or printed order as mentioned in Article 1, if the same bear date more than three days before the pauper duly presents it at the workhouse.
Article 3.—If
a pauper be admitted in any other than the first of the two modes mentioned in Article 1, the admission of such pauper shall be brought before the Board of Guardians at their next meeting, who shall decide on the propriety of the pauper's continuing in the workhouse or otherwise, and make an order accordingly.
Article 4.—As
soon as a pauper is admitted, his name and religious per¬ suasion shall be duly entered in the register, and he shall be placed in the probationary ward, or in some room to be exclusively appropriated for the purpose, and shall there remain until examined by the medical officer of the workhouse.
Article 5.—If
the medical officer, upon such examination, pronounce the pauper to be labouring under any disease of body or mind, the pauper shall be placed either in the sick ward, or in such other ward appropriated to the recep¬ tion of such cases, as the medical officer shall direct.
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