Overseers of the Poor of Amenia v. Overseers of Stanford
New York Supreme Court
IN error, on .certiorari, from the general sessions of pn£ peace Qf J)iichess county. The justices of the peace Qf the town of Armenia, made an order for the removal of a female pauper and her infant children to the town of Stanford, as the place of their last legal settlement.
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IN error, on .certiorari, from the general sessions of pn£ peace Qf J)iichess county. The justices of the peace Qf the town of Armenia, made an order for the removal of a female pauper and her infant children to the town of Stanford, as the place of their last legal settlement. The overseers of the poor of Stanford appealed from the order to th¿ next general sessions of the peace of Duchess county, held at Poughkeepsie, in October, 1809. At the trial, before the sessions, the overseers of Stanford proved that one John June had been assessed, and worked on the highway, in the town of Amenia,…
1Per curiam
By the act of 1801, (Laws, vol. 1. 566.) every person who should come to inhabit in any city or town, and should have been charged with and paid his share towards the public taxes of such city or town for the space of two years, shall be adjudged to have obtained a legal settlement in such city or town. Taxes, in the popular and ordinary sense of the term, (and in that sense laws are generally to be read,) mean pecuniary contribution ; and when the word paid is added by way of defining it, the sense becomes more clear and certain. The pauper’s father, while he lived in Amenia, worked on the…
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