§ 70. Mr. HAMERSLEYasked the President of the Local Government Board whether, since the Oxford Local Poor Act of 1854 came into force, the Local Government Board has in the course of its administration treated the overseers in the eleven parishes comprising the union of Oxford as having the same powers of giving relief in kind, orders for medical relief, and orders for the workhouse in eases of sudden and urgent necessity as the overseers of other unions have been treated since that date by the Local Government Board; and, if the overseers of the said eleven parishes are not treated by the Local Government Board as having the same powers as overseers in other parishes, to whom should the poor in the union of Oxford apply for medical or other relief in cases of sudden or other urgent necessity if the only relieving officer of the union is distributing or supervising out relief or otherwise engaged in his duties away from his home and office?
§ Mr. BURNSI do not find that the Local Government Board have had occasion in recent years to consider the legal position arising out of the local Act of 1854, or that any difficulty has arisen in connection with the giving of relief in cases of the kind referred to. If, however, my attention is drawn to any such difficulty I shall be happy to give it my consideration.