An Act to make Provision for the Dissolution of Combinations of Parishes in Scotland as to the Management of the Poor
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Eighth and Ninth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled An Act for the Amendment and Administration of the Laws relating to the Relief of the Poor in Scotland, it was provided, in the Sixteenth Section thereof, that the Board of Supervision thereby established, if satisfied that the Administration of the Affairs of the Poor in any Two or more Parishes, might "be carried on with greater Advantage to the said Parishes and to the Poor therein,...