" "This," say the Instructions, "is to be a fixed rule."
Yet it was afterwards modified with regard to class 4: the clause
saying "they were to be relieved by the sale of food of a cheap
description" did not, it would seem, mean that such food was to be sold
under its value. This was represented as a hardship, and on the 11th of
May the Relief Commissioners ruled, that with regard to the price of
food to class 4, "any food cooked in a boiler might be sold under first
cost."
12. Persons receiving wages, or refusing hire, to be excluded from
gratuitous relief.
15. To entitle holders of land to gratuitous relief, it should be
absolutely required of them to proceed with the cultivation of their
land.
The relief lists were to be revised every fortnight; the food best
suited to each district, and the most easily obtained _there_, to be at
once taken into consideration.
As to rations, it was considered that the most nourishing and economical
food was soup made after some of the approved receipts, with a portion
of bread, meal, or biscuit.
The 26th rule fixed the quantity and quality of a ration.
It was to consist of
1-1/2 lbs. of bread; or
1 lb.
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