An Act to enable Boards of Guardians of certain Unions to obtain temporary Aid to meet the extraordinary Demands for Relief therein.
WHEREAS by reason of the closing of Mills and Factories in certain Parts of the Country great Numbers of the labouring and manufacturing Classes have been thrown out of Employment, and having become chargeable to the Unions and Parishes wherein they reside the Ratepayers within the same are likely to be subjected to very heavy and extraordinary Burdens, and it is expedient that Means should be afforded whereby temporary Relief may be rendered to such Ratepayers: Be it enacted by the Queen's m...