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Poor Laws—England
Source of package eng.corpus.poor_settlement · HC Deb 17 April 1834 vol 22 cc874-898
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- urn:eng:corpus:clir:poor-settlement#HANSARD_1834
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- HC Deb 17 April 1834 vol 22 cc874-898
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- urn:eng:corpus:clir:poor-settlement#parliamentary_record
Historic Hansard digital transcript
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- urn:eng:corpus:clir:poor-settlement#HANSARD_1834_TRANSCRIPT
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- en
- officiality
- official
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- PINNED_UNOFFICIAL_COPY
- life cycle
- adopted: 1834-04-17
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Fragments — 1
commons/1834-04-17/column-886 · speech
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One of the advantages to be gained would be the complete simplification of the system; the apprehensions at present entertained by the farmer of hiring a man for longer than fifty-one weeks lest he should gain a settlement would be abolished; the removal of his clothes from the house of his employer within that period for a day would become unnecessary, and, therefore, it would follow that the farmer would not hesitate to take the labourer best calculated to suit his purposes, and consequently the labourer who best deserved it would obtain employment.
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