ABSTRACT
A little lame girl and a little boy applied for relief under the following circumstances:—They were soldier’s children, and were born in the Isle of Wight, and their parents being dead the little girl obtained a subscription in Yorkshire were they resided latterly to enable her to come to Dublin, and get the boy into the Hibernian School. The boy was refused admission on the ground that his father was married before he entered the army. The girl stated that she only wanted means to take her back to Shropshire. The guardians decided that they should be sent to the Night Asylum, in the hope that the Mendicity Committee would send them to England. If they were allowed into the house for a night only they would become in the eye of the law paupers in the union, and to send them to Liverpool or any other English town would render the guardians liable to a prosecution.
