...stated, in sulisi .mi v, " that the township of Todmordea and Walsden was part of a certain union, for the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor ; and that hy a certain order of the commissioners, of which the defendants in their character of overseers,...

...of Rugeley aforesaid, should, on the 21st of December then next, be, and thenceforth should remain united, for the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor, by the name of ' the Lichfield Union,' and should contribute and be assessed to a common fund...

...lawful for the said Commissioners, by order under their hands and seal, to declare so many parishes u they may think fit to be united for the administration...relief of the poor, and such parishes shall "thereupon bedremed a union for such purpose, and thereupon the workhouse or workhouses of such parishes shall...

...as they may think fit to call before them upon any Question or Matter connected with or relating to the Administration of the Laws for the Relief of the Poor, and also to make any Inquiries and require any Answer or Returns as to any such Question or Matter, and...

...production on oath of books, accounts, £c., upon any question or matter connected with or relative to the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor; and, by the 13th section, a party refusing to attend or act in obedience to the summons of a commissioner...

...Parishes may be the said Commissioners, by Order under their Hands and Seal, to united by Comdeclare so many Parishes as they may think fit to be united for nusslonersthe Administration of the Laws for the Relief of the Poor, and such Parishes shall thereupon...

...they may think fit to call before iliem, upon any question or matter connected with or relating to the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor, and also to make any inquiries, and require any answer or returns as to any such question or matter, and...

...execution of this arrangement, for although the Poor-Law Amendment Act, by clause 26 enacts, ' That it shall be lawful for the said commissioners, by order...shall thereupon be deemed a union for such purpose ;' t yet the commissioners are strictly denied the power of altering or dissolving existing unions...

...Surrey, shall, on the seventh day of 6. Thorpe. I & •_ September next, be, and thenceforth uney. remain united for the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor. And we do hereby order and declare, that (subject to the proviso contained in the 38th section of the said...

...named in the margin at the foot of this page, should, on the day of be, and thenceforth should remain united for the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor : And further, that on the day of and in the manner therein mentioned, the said parishes and places should...