Anfangsgründe der Volkswirtschaftslehre

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Identifikator:: 1030856788

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-60520

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Author:: Gide, Charles http://d-nb.info/gnd/117543985

Title:: Anfangsgründe der Volkswirtschaftslehre

Place of publication:: Halberstadt

Publisher:: H. Meyer's Buchdruckerei, Abteilung Verlag

Year of publication:: 1925

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770 LAISSEZ FAIRE A.D. 1776 ~— 1850. misplaced sense of duty in this matter?, and the liberal spirit in which they treated the particular cases which came before them, rendered it almost impracticable for a capable over- seer? to render the parochial administration even temporarily efficient. As the Commissioners reported of the greater part of the districts they had examined, “ the fund, which the 43rd sf Elizabeth directed to be emploved in setting to work employed by individuals, in respect of their families, entirely disappear from the late accounts. The principal impediment to the introduction of a better system, he found in the power of the pauper, when refused relief by the overseer, to apply to the bench in petty sessions; which nothing but the advantage of an intimate knowledge of his own parishioners, and of uniting in himself the functions, not the office, of overseer and magistrate, enabled him, by perseverance, to overcome. I'he following case is a sample of their unwillingness to take the circumstances or character of the applicant into due consideration. He refused relief (Nov. 27th, 1829) to Samuel Spencer, knowing him to have received a legacy of 4007. within two or three years before the application. The man applied to the bench in petty sessions, where Dr Webb produced to them an extract from the will (proved 1826), and the assurance of the executor that he had paid the pauper money since proving the will, to the amount above-mentioned. Notwithstanding this, they made an order of relief; and the man (able-bodied) has been from time to time on the rates ever since.” Extracts from Information received, pp. 125, 126. Appendix to First Report from the Commissioners on the Poor Laws, 1834, XXvirr. p. 240. 1 Prebendary Gisborne in writing on the duty of magistrates as regards the poor, seems to think, that their sole function was to be merciful, and not to help to render the system efficient. Enquiry into the Duties of Man (1795). 3 «At Over,” says Mr Power, “a village not far from Cottenham, I found a person of great judgment and experience in Mr Robinson, the principal farmer in that place. He is now serving the office of overseer for the fourth time. At present there are 40 men and more upon the parish; the average during eight months is 25. Part of this arises from farmers living at Willingham and 3wavesey, occupying about one-fifth of Over parish; these persons employ none but Willingham and Swavesey labourers; it arises also in part from the growing indifference to private employment generated by the system of parish relief. A man with a wife and four children is entitled to 10s., and more from the parish tor doing nothing; by working hard in private employ he could only earn 12s., and the difference probably he would require in additional sustenance for himself; consequently all motive to seek work vanishes. Coming into office this year, Mr Robinson found 12 married men on the box, some of the best men in the parish; he knew they could get work if they chose at that time; he set them to work digging a piece of land of his own at 3d. a rod ; they earned that week only about 7s. 6d. each, though they might have earned 12s.; and the next week they disappeared to a man. He complains bitterly of the obstruction given to these exertions by the decisions of the magistrates; they are always against him, and he regrets some unpleasant words spoken to him very lately by oue of the bench. On one occasion he had refused payment of their money to some men who would pot keep their proper hours of work upon the road; they complained to the bench at Cambridge, and beat him as usual, and returned to Over, wearing favours in their hats and button-holes; and in the evening a body of them sollected in front of his house. and shouted in trivmph.” Reports, 1834, xxvII. 77.

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