Directors of the Poor v. Overseers of the Poor
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Clarion county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 184. This was a petition by the directors of the poor of Blair county for a rule on the overseers of the poor of Clarion borough, to show-cause why the latter should not pay the costs and expenses incurred by said county of Blair in removing George W. Conard, a pauper, to the said borough of Clarion, and for his relief.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Clarion county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 184. This was a petition by the directors of the poor of Blair county for a rule on the overseers of the poor of Clarion borough, to show-cause why the latter should not pay the costs and expenses incurred by said county of Blair in removing George W. Conard, a pauper, to the said borough of Clarion, and for his relief. The court discharged the rule on the ground that, as the order of removal was unappealed from, and the pauper had been accepted, there could be no recovery. The directors of'…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mercur
The Act of 13th June 1836 gave to the Quarter Sessions of the proper county jurisdiction to determine disputed questions between different districts of the Commonwealth, as to the settlement of paupers. Power was also thereby given to it to impose the costs and expenses of maintaining the pauper on the district properly chargeable with the support of the same.
Thus, if a poor person fell sick or died in a district in which he had not gained a settlement, so that he could not be removed therefrom, and on notice thereof, as prescribed by the act, to the overseers of the district in which he had…
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