The Settlement Laws Of Massachusetts In Their Application To Poor Relief Outside Institutions

Author : Henry Shaw
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ISBN 13 : 9781331330950
Total Pages : 222 pages
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Download or read book The Settlement Laws of Massachusetts written by Henry Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Settlement Laws of Massachusetts: In Their Application to Poor Relief Outside Institutions; With Citation of Some of the Leading Judicial Decisions in the Last Thirty Years and Practical Suggestions to Visitors Among the Poor In closing an account of the Public Charities of Massachusetts, printed by the Commonwealth for use at the Centennial Exposition of 1876, and covering the whole period of our existence as an organized community, I had occasion to say that "it is the whole people of Massachusetts, rather than any personages, however powerful, gifted, or generous, who have created, and do now sustain, the great fabric of our charities." And I went on to add that "in the broad philanthropy, the kindly and shrewd intelligence, the deep sympathies, the plain good sense, the practical Christianity of this people, will be found the moving cause of all that has been done to relieve suffering and to elevate mankind in our Commonwealth." True then, these remarks are no less true now. They were called out by a long and close observation of the statutes of Massachusetts for the relief of the poor, and an acquaintance (now much more extensive) with the Overseers of the Poor, and those others, official or private persons, and many of them women, who administered our statutes or supplied the deficiency of laws by private benevolence, and what the Church emphatically calls "good works." Among all these persons, numbering thousands during the period of thirty-six years since I began as a State official to study and direct public charity, I have known none more faithful in his varied duties or more competent from his character and experience to set forth in a concise Manual the present Poor Law of Massachusetts, interpreted by its indwelling spirit, than Dr. Henry Shaw, the author of the following pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.