, cap. 107.
With a view to give every practicable assistance to the presentment
sessions, the Board of Works should be prepared with plans and estimates
of those works in each district in which relief is likely to be
required, on which the destitute poor might with the greatest public
advantage be employed; and an officer of the Board should be in
attendance at the sessions, to furnish every explanation that may be
called for.
In order to prevent labourers from being induced to leave their proper
employments and to congregate on the relief works, in the hope of
getting regularly paid money wages in return for a smaller quantum of
work than they have been accustomed to give, the following rules ought,
in their Lordships' opinion, to be strictly observed:--
No person should be employed on any relief works who can obtain
employment on other public works, or in farming or other private
operations in the neighbourhood.
The wages given to persons employed on relief works should, in every
case, be at least 2d. a day less than the average rate of wages in the
district.
And the persons employed on relief works should, to the utmost possible
extent, be paid in proportion to the work actually done by them.
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