CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12] — Page 274

and as a Bench of Magistrates, consisting partly of persons unconnected with the Government, has been appointed, the most eligible. course will perhaps be to empower_ them to constitute overseers with authority

to relieve destitute individuals

ingury

being.

rate

made

of

accounts

f

after

due

these overseers

up quarterly, a proportionate

may from time to time be levied on-

the Inhabitants, grounded-

on the assessment

of property for the Police Rate, and-payable_ under the control and by the authority

the authority of the Magistrates :. Some scheme of the_ above. Kind. I propose

to make the

of a Separate Ordinance.

cases

In the mean

white,

a

few

subject

casual

of want, arising principally in the

families of

deceased Policemen, have

been relieved: by the Colonial Government There

come under the first class required

by the resolution_ ช

mz,

#

the House of C

271 Commons,

"Widows and fatherless children, or

deserted women and Children. ?

...

The second-class, or "Old and

kyet

infirm persons" have not the notice of the Government.

come under

The third and last class, as "Persons

diseased _ in body or mind _ "have in-

al been sent to the Seamen's hospital,

general

and the

expense in some cases

by the Colony

With

defrayed...

reference to the further -

requisition of the House of Commons, viz,

" a statement, so

far

as can be

e given, of the actual condition of such several classes of persons," I have already anticipated _ the

reply

to this

enquiry

at the commencement

of the present Despatch. Time has

of

that

searcely elapsed for the creation. species and amount of pauperism- which

by

Y

is