Metropolitan Houseless Poor Act 1864
WHEREAS it is expedient that Provision should be made for distributing the Charge of the Relief of certain poor Persons in the Metropolis during the ensuing Winter otherwise than is now lawful: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,