The History of the Cotton Famine: From the Fall of Sumter to the Passing of the Public Works ActSaunders, Otley, and Company, 1865 - Всего страниц: 350 |
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... poverty at home which would seem starva- tion to an Englishman - have swollen the army ... poor and unimprovable country , an increase of population diminishes the ... rate commensurate with the increasing wealth of the community . 6 The ...
... poverty at home which would seem starva- tion to an Englishman - have swollen the army ... poor and unimprovable country , an increase of population diminishes the ... rate commensurate with the increasing wealth of the community . 6 The ...
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... rate of extension . Taking the whole county , the population had increased 100 per cent . in little over thirty years — a rate ... Poor Law Commissioners , giving a full account of the improved con- dition of some families which had abandoned ...
... rate of extension . Taking the whole county , the population had increased 100 per cent . in little over thirty years — a rate ... Poor Law Commissioners , giving a full account of the improved con- dition of some families which had abandoned ...
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... rates of profit . Such a glut of production had there been in 1859 and 1860 , that at the time to which we are ... Poor Law allowances or private benefactions , we might well think the title of this history a misnomer , and question the ...
... rates of profit . Such a glut of production had there been in 1859 and 1860 , that at the time to which we are ... Poor Law allowances or private benefactions , we might well think the title of this history a misnomer , and question the ...
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... poor , and what capacity of expansion or adaptation to these peculiar and unprecedented circumstances this machinery ... rates . But the old system made many beggars , and starved those who could not , or who were too proud to beg . There is ...
... poor , and what capacity of expansion or adaptation to these peculiar and unprecedented circumstances this machinery ... rates . But the old system made many beggars , and starved those who could not , or who were too proud to beg . There is ...
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... Poor Laws of the reign of George III . , the only one of particular importance is that the 54th Geo . III . c . 170 - which enables justices to excuse poor persons from the payment of rates , upon receiving proof of their poverty . A ...
... Poor Laws of the reign of George III . , the only one of particular importance is that the 54th Geo . III . c . 170 - which enables justices to excuse poor persons from the payment of rates , upon receiving proof of their poverty . A ...
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American amount Ashton Ashton-under-Lyne assistance authority bales Blackburn boards of guardians capital cent Central Executive Committee Central Relief Committee charitable clothing condition considerable cotton districts Cotton Famine cotton manufacture cotton supply cotton trade demand difficulty distress duty emigration employment England English equal estimated expenditure extent fact factory facturers Farnall Glossop Government hands Haslingden honour improvement increase India interest labour Lancashire land large number less Liverpool loans Lord Lord Derby machinery Manchester Mansion House Committee manufac manufacturing districts ment mills months Oldham operatives outdoor outdoor relief parish persons Poor Law Board poor-rates population possessed post 8vo pound Preston production profits rate of relief rate-in-aid rateable value ratepayers raw material Ready received relief funds Rochdale shillings spindles Staleybridge Stockport subscriptions suffering sufficient Surat tion towns township unemployed Union Relief Aid Villiers wages week Wigan yarn
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Стр. 50 - Every able-bodied male person, if relieved out of the workhouse, shall be set to work by the guardians, and be kept employed under their direction and superintendence so long as he continues to receive relief.