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Details of MH 12/9361/22
Reference: MH 12/9361/22
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Content: Folio 28. Draft letter from Poor Law Commission to William Wilson, Mansfield Poor Law Union, Normanton, Alfreton, regarding the punishment of vagrants for refusing to work. They acknowledge receipt of a letter dated the 1 February referring to the recently erected mill at the Mansfield Union Workhouse for the employment of vagrants and the 'intimation' of a magistrate who will not convict any vagrant who refuses to work on the mill on the grounds that it serves no useful purpose. The Commission state that as the magistrate takes this view, that a better plan would be to attach to the mill an 'apparatus of some kind for raising water, washing potatoes or performing any kind of work' which it is deemed easy to attach to it. Paper Number: 1686/B/1845. Poor Law Union Number 337. Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
Date: 19 Mar 1845
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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