[460] Office Minute of 1873. This had been pointed out by Mr. Corbett in 1868. "In none of these workhouses is it possible to apply the workhouse as a test of destitution to single able-bodied men, nor can indoor relief be afforded to those with families in many instances in which it would be desirable" (Mr. Corbett's Report, 4th January 1868, in Twentieth Annual Report, 1867-8, p. 126).
[461] Mr. C. P. Villiers, President of the Poor Law Board, 4th May 1860, Hansard, vol. clviii. p. 694.
[462] 12 & 13 Vic. c. 103, sec. 20; Second Annual Report, 1849, p. 12.
[463] "Your petitioners having had practical proof of the tendency of labour to accumulate beyond the bounds of remunerative investment for capital, consider that a well-arranged system of emigration is the present most feasible mode of preserving a correct equilibrium between the supply and demand for labour" (MS. Minutes, Manchester Board of Guardians, 12th July 1849).
[464] Second Annual Report, 1849, p. 12.
[465] Fifth Annual Report, 1852, p. 7.
[466] See the total given years later, in Ninth Annual Report, 1856, p. 119.
[467] Sixth Annual Report, 1853, p. 6.
[468] Seventh Annual Report, 1854, p. 8.
[469] Twelfth Annual Report, 1859-60, p. 19.