HEREFORD UNION RULES
For the Relief of Mendicant or Casual Paupers.
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1.TICKETS shall be issued to all Rate
Payers within the Union, with a Notification requesting they will give
no money or food to any person, who on the plea of destitution shall beg
relief.
2. EVERY Rate Payer shall be entitled to give a Ticket,
recommending relief be given in the workhouse, to any persons who shall
by words or signs intimate that he or she is in a state of destitution,
has no means to get his or her living, or, whom at that time shall use
no ordinary or daily trade.
3. THE Master of the Workhouse shall receive as casual
poor every destitute person who shall receive any Ticket, and after compliance
with the Workhouse regulations for the submission of destitute persons,
shall, if an able-bodied Male, be set to work on the Corn Mill, and if
not a wholly able-bodied Male, or Female, then to pick Oakum, or do such
other work as the Master may deem appropriate.
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4. AFTER such person shall have performed a work of proportion
to his or her ability, he or she shall receive such a meal of food as is provided
to be given to the regular inmates of the Workhouse, and thenceforth, till they
leave the House, on the performance of the prescribed, shall receive the same
diet, and be subject to the same discipline as the other inmates of the Workhouse.
5. THAT the Master do take particular care that no Vagrant
be allowed to have communication with any inmate of the Workhouse.
6. THAT all vagrants be searched, and if any Vagrant refuses
to be searched, or to admit to the Rules of the House, or in any way misconduct
himself, the Master shall forthwith cause him to be conveyed before the City
magistrates, to be there dealt with according to Law.
7. THE Master shall take an Examination of all Vagrants admitted
into the house, which shall be entered into a Book provided for that purpose.
8. EVERY care shall be taken, by means of enquiries made by
the Master of the Workhouse, to satisfy the Rate Payers giving Tickets, that
each case is duly investigated, and for this purpose every Examination so taken
by the Master of the Workhouse shall, at all convenient times be open to the
inspection of the Rate Payers, at the Workhouse, if they shall desire to be
informed as to the result of the Examination or of the treatment employed in
the case.
9. THE particulars of each Case relieved upon Tickets, shall
be duly entered into the Vagrant Description List.
10. THAT the Parish from which a Vagrant is sent be charged
with the expense incurred by him.
11. THAT the Master do make every person, admitted in the
pursuance of these rules, aware of the Conditions under which relief is given.
Hereford Record Office - BC 79/11/11