Original Acts of Parliament relating to Social Services (Lot of 132)


Published:  London, 1706-1867.

A massive collection of 132 original Acts of Parliament all related to SOCIAL SERVICES.  The majority are Folio size, disbound from a larger volume.  A full detailed list of the Acts included is available upon request, but too large to list here.  I've listed a sample of some of the Acts below:

Subject Title Identification Date
Social Services,
Charities
An Act for the better Collecting Charity-Money on Briefs by Letters-Patents, and Preventing Abuses in relation to such Charities. Anno quarto & quinto
Annae Reginae
Not dated
Social Services,
Poor, Burial Grounds
An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor of the several parishes within the City of Worcester, and of the Parishes of Saint Martin and Saint Clement, which are Part within the City of Worcester, and Part within the County of Worcester, and for providing a Burial Ground for the Use of such Parishes. Anno Tricesimo Secundo
Gerogii III. Regis.
CAP. XCIX
Not dated
Social Services, Insolvent Debtors An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors. Anno Undecimo Georgii Regis. 1725
Social Services, Work for Poor, Gloucester An Act for repealing part, and making more effectual the residue of an Act of Parliament, made in the First Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, Intituled, An Act for the Incorporating certain Persons for the better providing for, and setting at work the Poor in the City of Gloucester. Anno Decimo tertio
Georgii Regis.
1727
Social Services,  Insolvent Debtors An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors. Anno Secundo
Georgii II. Regis.
1729
Social Services,  Debt relief, Prisoners An Act for the Relief of Debtors, with respect to the Imprisonment of their Persons. Anno Secundo
Georgii II. Regis.
1729
Social Services, Debt relief, Prisoners  An Act for explaining and amending an Act made in the last Session of Parliament [intituled, An Act for the Relief of Debtors, with respect to the Imprisonment of their Persons.] Anno Tertio
Georgii II. Regis.
1730
Social Services, Certificates, Poor An Act for continuing and amending an Act for regulating the Price and Assize of Bread; for Relief of Bankrupts, whose Certificates were not allowed before the Expiration of a late Act (for the better preventing Frauds committed by Bankrupts) for allowing further Time for Enrollment of Deeds or Wills made by Papists, and for Relief of Protestant Purchasers and Lessees; and for making further Provision concerning Certificates relating to the Settlements of poor Persons, and the Charges of maintaining and removing certificated Persons. Anno Tertio
Georgii II. Regis.
1730
Social Services, Charitable Corporation
[2 copies]
An Act to encourage and compel George Robinson Esquire, and John Thompson to appear, and produce the Books, and discover the Effects of the Charitable Corporation for Relief of industrious Poor, by assisting them with small Sums upon Pledges, at legal Interest; and to be examined thereupon at the Times and Places therein mentioned. Anno quinto
Georgii II. Regis.
1732
Social Services, Bankruptcy
[2 copies]
An Act for appointing Commissioners for taking, stating, and determining all the Claims and Demands of the Creditors of The Charitable Corporation for Relief of Industrious Poor, by Assisting them with small Sums upon Pledges at legal Interest; and of all Persons claiming any Share or Interest in the Stock or Fund of the said Corporation, and for enabling the said Corporation to name One Person to be an Assignee under the respective Commissions of Bankruptcy awarded against George Robinson and John Thompson; and for enabling the Commissioners acting under the said Commissions of Bankruptcy to proceed and enquire of the Estates, Goods, and Effects of the said Bankrupts, and to apply the same; and to oblige John Thomson, Father of the said John Thomson the Bankrupt, to appear before the said Commissioners of Bankruptcy in England. Anno quinto
Georgii II. Regis.
1732
Social Services, Bastard Children An Act for the Relief of Parishes, and other Places, from such Charges as may arise from Bastard Children born within the same. Anno sexto
Georgii II. Regis.
1733
Social Services, Relief of Debtor, Prisoners An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act for the Relief of Debtors with respect to the Imprisonment of their Persons. Anno octavo
Georgii II. Regis.
1735
Social Services, Insolvent Debtors An Act for the Relief of such Prisoners for Debt as have by unavoidable Accidents lost the Benefit of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act for Relief of Insolvent Debtors; and for the Indemnity of such Sheriffs and Gaolers as have incurred any Penalties on Account of such Prisoners not being discharged; and for extending the Benefit of the said Act to Creditors, whose Debtors were committed to Prison since the First Day of January, One thousand seven hundred and thirty, and were detained there upon the First Day of January, One  thousand seven hundred and thirty-six, and have chose to continue there. Anno undecimo
Georgii II. Regis.
1738
2 ACTS together
(1)Social Services, England, Wales, Prison Relief
(2)John Marshall Will
(1) An Act for the more effectual securing the Payments of certain Sums of Money directed by an Act made in the Forty third Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An Act for Relief of the Poor, to be paid by the respective Treasurers of every County in England and Wales, for the Relief of the poor Prisoners of the King's Bench and Marshalsea Prisons.
(2) An Act to impower the present Trustees under the last Will and Testament of John Marshall Gentleman, deceased, to lay out a certain Sum of Money, now in their Hands, for pulling down and rebuilding the Parish-Church of Christ-Church in the County of Surrey, and for inclosing a Piece of Ground latly purchased, for an additional Church-Yard to the said Church.
(1)Anno undecimo
Georgii II. Regis.
(2)Anno undecimo
Georgii II. Regis.
(1) 1738
(2) 1738
Social Services, Debts An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the Third Year of the Reign of King James the First, intituled, An Act for the recovering of Small Debts, and for the relieving of poor Debtors in London. Anno Decimo quarto
Georgii II. Regis.
1740
Social Services, Insolvent Debtors
[2 copies]
An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors. Anno decimo sexto
Georgii II. Regis.
1742
Social Services, Overseer of Poor An Act to oblige Overseers of the Poor to give publick Notice of Rates made for the Relief of the Poor, and to produce the same. Anno decimo septimo,
Georgii II. Regis.
[1743]
Social Services, Relief of the Poor An Act for remedying some Defects in the Act made in the Forty third Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An Act for the Relief of the Poor. Anno decimo septimo,
Georgii II. Regis.
1744
Social Services, Insolvent Debtors An Act for Relief of Insolvent Debtors. Anno vicefimo primo
Georgii II. Regis.
1748
Social Services, Relief of Poor, Westminster An Act for making a better and more effectual Provision for the Relief of the Poor, for the Cleansing of the Streets, and for keeping a Nightly Watch, within the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields, within the Liberties of the City of Westminster. Anno vicefimo tertio
Georgii II. Regis.
1750
Social Services,
Relief of Poor,
Westminster
An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor in the Parishes of Saint Margaret and Saint John the Evangelist, in the City of Westminster; and for cleansing the Streets, and repairing the Highways, within the said Parishes. Anno vicesimo quinto
Georgii II. Regis.
1752
Social Services,
Insolvent Debtors
An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors. Anno quinto
Georgii III. Regis.CAP. XLI
1765
Social Services, Cemeteries An Act to enlarge the Doemetery or Churchyard, of the Parish of Watford, in the County of Hertford, and to make an additional Building to the present Workhouse, for the Reception of the Poor of the said Parish; and for other Purposes therein mentioned. Anno Duodecimo
Georgii III. Regis.
CAP. XXVIII
1772
Social Services, Relief of Poor An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor within that Part of the parish of Saint Sepulchre, which is in the County of Middlesex;  and for paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, and regulating the Squares, Streets, Lanes, Alleys, Courts, Yards, and open Passages and places within the same; and for removing Annoyances therefrom; and for making the Communication between Charter-house Square and Saint John Street, through Charter-house Lane, more convenient. Anno Duodecimo
Georgii III. Regis.
CAP. LXVIII
1772
Social Services, Relief of Poor An Act to repeal an Act, passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act for the more effectual Relief of the Poor in the County of Devon; and for other Purposes therein mentioned. Anno Decimo Tertio
Georgii III. Regis.
CAP. XVIII
1773