An Act to explain Two Acts of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, concerning the Appointments of Overseers, and the Authority of Justices of the Peace to act in certain Matters relating to the Poor in Cities and Boroughs.
WHEREAS by the Act passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, Chapter Eight, it was enacted, that in every City, Town Corporate, or Borough the Justices of the Peace having Jurisdiction therein should have the exclusive Right of appointing the Overseers of the Poor of the several Parishes, Townships, or other Places separately maintaining their own Poor, or of any Parts thereof within the said Cities, Towns Corporate, and Boroughs respectively, in like Manner and with the same Ef...