# Poor Relief Act 1662, Section XIII: President and Governors may choose Officers, and make them Allowances.


And it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the President and Governours of any the said Corporation or Corporations Workhouse or Workhouses or any fourteene or more of them being assembled togeather shall have hereby power to choose and entertaine all such Officers and others as shall be needfull to be imployed in and about the p[re]misses and them or any of them from time to time to remove as they shall see cause and upon the death or removal of them or any of them to choose others in theire places for the carrying on of the Worke and to make and give such reasonable allowances unto them or any of them out of the Stock and Revenue belonging to the said Corporation or Workhouse as they shall thinke fitt

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/14/12/section/XIII (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/poor-relief-act-1662/section-XIII
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