[629] Macmorran and Lushington's Poor Law Orders, second edition, 1905, p. 1331.
[630] Local Government Chronicle, 16th August 1902, p. 825.
[631] Ibid. 27th April 1889, p. 338; Hansard, 2nd July 1897, vol. 50, p. 966; Selections from the Correspondence of the Local Government Board, vol. ii. 1883, p. 94. On the other hand, a contrary decision seems to have been given in 1885 (ibid. vol. iii. 1888, p. 187).
[632] Boarding out without the Union Order, 1889, in Nineteenth Annual Report, 1889-90, p. 49. The "within the Union Order" contains some modifications for the case where there is no committee.
[633] Circular Letter, 9th December 1905, in Thirty-fifth Annual Report, 1905-6, p. 328.
[634] Memorandum of the Local Government Board, June 1900. See Local Government Law and Legislation, by W. H. Dumsday, 1900, p. 126.
[635] Local Government Chronicle, 31st October 1903, p. 1070.
[636] Memorandum of the Local Government Board, June 1900, Local Government Law and Legislation, by W. H. Dumsday, 1900, p. 126.
[637] Local Government Chronicle, 12th March 1904, p. 290.
[638] The rate of 1s. and one loaf for the support per week of each child on outdoor relief was deliberately sanctioned, in 1869, by a Conference of Metropolitan Guardians, presided over by Mr. Corbett (Mr. Corbett's Report of 10th August 1871, as reprinted for official circulation in 1873 by the Central Authority). The dividing line between children merely on this outdoor relief, and those "boarded out" at 4s. or 5s. per week, it must be remembered, is not kinship, but whether or not the person with whom the child lives is legally liable for its maintenance. Thus, the policy of the Central Authority has been that children living with a stepfather and stepmother, with a widower stepfather, with a widowed stepmother, or even with a brother, a sister, an uncle, or an aunt (none of whom is legally liable for their maintenance) require all this elaborate supervision and protection; whereas if the children live with their own mother and father, with their widowed mother, with their widower father, with any or all of their grandparents, or exposed to the tender mercies of a father and stepmother, no such supervision and protection is insisted on. But although this is the rule, we are informed that the Central Authority, in practice, now makes no difficulty, if applied to, in sanctioning the transfer of children living with grandparents, uncles and aunts, or brothers and sisters, from the category of ordinary outdoor relief to the more regulated and more richly endowed category of boarding-out. It still objects in the case of parents (Selections from the Correspondence of the Local Government Board, vol. iii. 1888, p. 187; Decisions of the Local Government Board, 1903-4, by W. A. Casson, 1905, p. 78).