Handy Book of Parish Law, A

A Handy Book of Parish Law: contents include of the parish and parishioners, the parish church and churchyard, clergymen and church services, of the churchwardens, of church trustees, parish clerk, sexton and beadle, the parish vestry, select vestry, preparation of jury lists, of constables, of highways, of highway districts, of tramways, watching and lighting, removal of nuisances, church rates, poor rates, County and Borough rates, rating of tenements let for short terms and of small tenements, parochial assessment, powers of the local government board in the administration of the poor laws, Board of Guardians, of Metropolitan District Asylum Boards and Common Poor fund, powers of Justices of the Peace in the administration of poor laws, the overseers, assistant overseers and collectors, audit of union and parish accounts, the union officers, relief of the poor, the workhouse, settlement and removal and parish apprentices. Inscribed inside cover with Horace Howell, Fulmodestone, June 1st 1877. It has a dark blue cover with embossed stippled effect. On the front cover it has a gold printed title and 'W.A. Holdsworth Barrister at Law Seventh Edition 2/6', 1877.