2. As to funds:--local or other subscriptions, with donations from
Government and moneys in hand of Poorlaw Guardians, to be regarded as
appropriated rates on electoral divisions, where needed.
3. The funds in hands of existing Relief Committees were to be generally
available for Committees under the new Act.
4. Relief to be given exclusively in food; gratuitously to the
absolutely desolate; by reasonable prices to such, as were in
employment, or had the means of purchasing.
5. There was to be a Government Inspector of every Union, who was to be
an _ex-officio_ member of every Committee under the Act in the Union.
9. Persons requiring relief were to be classed under _four_ heads,
namely: (1) Those who were destitute, helpless or impotent; (2)
Destitute able-bodied persons not holding land; (3) Destitute
able-bodied persons who were holders of small portions of land; (4) The
able-bodied employed at wages insufficient for their support, when the
price of food was very high.
10. The first three classes to get gratuitous relief, but the fourth to
be relieved by the sale of food of a cheap description: and it was
specially laid down that there were to be "no gratuitous supplies of
food to them.
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