history of poor relief legislation in iowa

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: n POOR RELIEF LEGISLATION IN THE TERRITORY OF MICHIGAN The Governor and Judges of the Northwest Territory were given authority by the Ordinance of 1787 to enact laws borrowed from the original States until such time as a Territorial legislature should be elected. This provision was repeated in the Organic Act creating the Territory of Indiana, and in the later act creating the Territory of Michigan.19 Accordingly, until 1823 the Governor and Judges of Michigan were the law-makers, and the laws were adaptations of statutes from the various States.20 It was but natural, therefore, that many of the laws of the Territory of Michigan should be borrowed from Ohio. During the history of the Territory of Michigan before 1834, the year in which Michigan's jurisdiction was extended over the Iowa country, eleven acts affecting the relief of the poor were passed. Between that date and July 4, 1836, when the Territory of Wisconsin was organized, there was enacted but one law touching upon the subject of poor relief, namely, the act of March 7, 1834, relating to the care of insane paupers. Of the eleven acts above mentioned, four were amendatory of laws already existing.These were the laws of 1824, 1825, 1829, and 1831. The acts of 1827 and 1833 were practically alike with the exception of a change in the name of the township relief officials from "overseers of the poor" to "directors of the poor", and except that the latter act incorporated several sections from the law of 1830, providing for poorhouses. Two other laws, those of 1817 and 1820, resemble each other with the sole exception of the name of the relief authorities. In the one case they are the justices of the peace in the county, and in the other they are the county commissioners. The essential features of the law of 1830 we...
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