Author: Anon
Title: Extracts from the Information Received by His Majesty&Apos;S Commissioners, As to the Administration and Operation of the Poor-Laws
Description: London , W. Clowes and Sons, 1837. Cloth. A book on the 1832 Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws. With many charts and tables. The 1832 Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws was a group set up to decide how to change the Poor Law systems in England and Wales. The group included Nassau Senior, a professor from Oxford University who was against the allowance system, and Edwin Chadwick, who was a Benthamite. The recommendations of the Royal Commission's report were implemented in the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834. Expertly rebound in a cloth covered binding. Externally, lovely condition. Internally, firmly bound, generally bright and clean with an institutional ink stamp to verso of title page. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: Poor Laws Poverty Legal Law Poverty None


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