The Labourer's FriendSociety for the Improvement of the Condition of the Labouring Classes, 1849 - Allotment of land |
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accommodation acres advantages agricultural allotments amount Annual Subscriptions annuity attended Bart Bed Room benefit building cholera comfort committee common cottages Covent Garden crop cultivation district ditto Donations and Subscriptions duty dwellings Earl emigrants erected establishment evils Exeter Hall expense farm farmers feel field garden Fleet Street give habits Hatton Garden IMPROVING THE CONDITION industry interest John John Sperling JOHN WOOD Labourer's Friend Society labouring classes Lady land lodgers Lodging House London Lord Ashley Lord John Russell lordship Major Little meeting ment Messrs Miss model lodging-house Month moral neighbourhood object occupied Oswald Mosley paid parish paupers persons poor population Portpool Lane potatoes present proceedings purchase purpose received rent SOCIETY FOR IMPROVING Society's Strand Streatham Streatham-street Street Sub-Committee tenants tenements Thomas Thomas Twining tion town Tunbridge whole workhouse
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Page 7 - Let the people praise thee, O God : let all the people praise thee.
Page 23 - For the poor shall never cease out of the land : therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Page 173 - ... the said external window, and so as to allow between every part of such steps and the external wall of such vault, cellar or room, a clear space of six inches at...
Page 120 - Except the Lord build the house : their labour is but lost that build it. Except the Lord keep the city : the watchman waketh but in vain.
Page 158 - ... by the year, for any less term than one year ; or on any agreement by which the rent shall be reserved or made payable at any shorter period than three months, shall be assessed to the rates for the relief of the poor...
Page 173 - Slaughter-house without its being registered as required by this Act shall be liable for every such Offence to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds...
Page 144 - Offence be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds, and to a further Penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings for every Day during which the...
Page 159 - London, the town council of any borough for the time being subject to the act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of king William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, intituled "An Act to provide for the regulation of municipal corporations in England and Wales...
Page 173 - ... the same be well and effectually drained by means of a drain, the uppermost part of which is one foot at least below the level of the floor of such vault, cellar or room, nor unless there is a clear space of not less than one foot below the level of the floor, except where the same is cemented, nor unless there be appurtenant to such vault, cellar or room, the use of a water-closet or privy...
Page 144 - ... of the local authority, and shall well and sufficiently, and to the like satisfaction, limewash the walls and ceilings thereof in the first week of each of the months of April and October in every year.