Derry v. County of Rockingham

This is a claim for the support of one Emerson, a county pauper, who for some time prior to October 26, 1887, resided in Derry, and had been supported there by the county. October 17, 1887, the county commissioners notified in writing the selectmen, who were also the overseers of the poor of Derry, that they should allow nothing for assistance furnished to Emerson as a pauper after October 26, 1887, and at the same time authorized the selectmen to remove him to the county poor-farm, and gave a written permit for his admission there. Emerson was an old man, decrepit from rheumatic disease. He…