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Schedule. Questions, to which, by direction of an act, passed in the sixteenth year of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled, "An act for obliging the overseers of the poor, within the several parishes and places within that part of Great Britain called England, to make returns, upon oath, to certain questions, specified in the act, relative to the state of their poor; and to authorize and require the justices of the peace, within their respective divisions and jurisdictions, in the several counties and cities in England and Wales, to take such returns upon oath, and to cause them to be transmitted to the clerk of the parliaments;" answers are to be returned by the overseers of the poor of every parish, township, and place, in wrinting, upon oath, and signed by them; for which purpose the said overseers are to attend the justices of the peace, within their respective jurisdictions, at such times and places as they shall appoint on pain of forfeiting, for every default or neglect, a sum not exceeding five pounds, nor less than forty shillings
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