ABSTRACT
As the law now stands the overseers are to make, assess, collect and distribute the fund for the relief of the poor. They are to decide in the first instance what amount of money is wanted, what persons are to pay it, and in what proportions; they are to enforce payment of it from those persons, and they are to dole it out to those whom they think proper objects of relief so as to satisfy what they think the necessities of those objects. Where a Select Vestry exists, they are desired by the 59 Geo. III. c. 12, to conform to the directions of that vestry, but as the Act does not put an end to their responsibility or enact any penalty for their non-conformance, this clause, though productive of important results in practice, appears to want legal sanction.
OVERSEERS.
