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TO THE CLERGY, CHURCHWARDENS, AND OVERSEERS, OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.
Shaw’s Parish Officer’s Guide.
A New and Practical Work on the Laws relative to Parish Masters, calculated for general Information, and to furnish all Persons liable to serve the office of Churchwarden, Overseer, &c. with full instructions for their legal and efficient discharge, entitled,
6. THE PAROCHIAL LAWYER; or, CHURCHWARDENS’ and OVERSEERS’ GUIDE: containing the whole of the Statute Law, with the Decisions of the Courts of Law and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, on the Duties and Powers of those Officers, embodying all that is practical and operative in Dean Prideaux’ Instructions to Churchwardens. By JAMES SHAW, Esq. of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. Third Edition, considerably improved, with the New Acts of 1 and 2 of William IV. price 5s. 6d.
The Work is divided into Four Parts: the first and second relate to the Duties, Powers, and Responsibility of Churchwardens and Overseers, with the Management, Relief, and Employment of the Poor, by Select Vestry, Guardians, or Trustees. The third and fourth Parts embrace the Law, Practice, and Proceedings of Open and Select Vestries, with some necessary Information respecting the Offices of Vestry Clerk, Parish Clerk, Constables, Sextons, &c.
Also, by the same Author,
1. THE DOMESTIC LAWYER; or, a Practical and Popular Exposition of the Laws of England, containing the requisite Legal Information relative to every possible Circumstance and Situation in which persons can be placed in the ordinary occurrences of Trade and Social Life. Including the Important Acts of last Sessions. Price 9s. bound in cloth.
2. THE CONSTABLE and POLICE-OFFICER’S COMPANION and GUIDE. Price 4s.
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