[64]. The entire of the paragraph quoted would not bear out the interpretation here put upon it.
[65]. Ante, pp. 77 and 78.
[66]. The duties here proposed to be performed by the officers of health, are similar to what are required from the relieving officer under the amended Poor Law in England.
[67]. These were Dr. Vignoles, J. W. S. Naper Esq., and Lord Killeen.
[68]. The commissioners who signed this schedule of reasons are, the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Murray the Roman catholic archbishop, Rev. Mr. Carlisle, Mr. F. Hort, Mr. John Corrie, Mr. W. B. Wrightson, the Right Hon. A. R. Blake, and Mr. J. J. Bicheno. The two latter had been subsequently added to the original commission.
[69]. See ‘History of the Scotch Poor Law.’ The number of parishes assessed to the relief of the poor in Scotland in 1855, was 700, and the number unassessed, in which the relief is raised by voluntary contributions, was 183. The latter are continually diminishing, and will probably ere long cease altogether.
[70]. Now Sir George Cornewall Lewis Bart., and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
[71]. Ante p. 129.
[72]. The present Earl of Carlisle, then Secretary for Ireland, and now Lord Lieutenant.
[73]. Whether the number of persons in distress and requiring relief during thirty weeks in every year, amounted to 2,385,000, as estimated by the commissioners, may admit of question; but there can be no doubt that much distress prevailed, and that occasionally it was exceedingly severe.