§ MR. GOSCHEN, in moving for leave to bring in a Bill to make provision for the proceedings of Boards of Management and Boards of Guardians upon the dissolution of Districts and Unions, or the annexation of Parishes to Unions, said, the Bill was of a technical character, and it was intended by it to supply certain omissions in the Poor Law of 1834, and the Acts amending the same, with regard to what took place when a Union was dissolved. Provision was only made by those Acts for the adjustment of liabilities between the parishes, but with respect to liabilities due to third parties, which would have to be met by the parishes constituting the dissolved Unions, there was no remedy. The Boards of Guardians were dissolved, and there was no one left responsible or who could be sued. The Bill was of an urgent character, inasmuch as the liabilities of several of the Unions that had been dissolved could not be met until the Bill was passed.
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Motion agreed to.
Bill to make provision for the proceedings of Boards of Management and Boards of Guardians upon the dissolution of Districts and Unions or the annexation of Parishes to Unions, ordered to be brought in by Mr. GOSCHEN and Mr. ARTHUR PEEL.
Bill presented, and read the first time. [Bill 17.]