Section XXI Recital that certain Counties are unable to reap the Benefit of 43 Eliz. c. 2.

Regulations for Choice of Overseers for Townships and Villages in such Counties.

Whereas the Inhabitants of the Counties of Lancashire Cheshire Derbyshire Yorkshire Northumberland the Bishoprick of Durham Cumberland and Westmerland and many other Counties in England and Wales by reason of the largenes of the Parishes within the same have not nor cannot reape the X1 of the act of Parliament made in the three and fortieth yeare of the Reigne of the late Queene Elizabeth for releife of the Poore Therefore be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the poore needy impotent and lame person and persons within every Township or Village within the severall Counties aforesaid shall from and after the passing of this act be maintained kept provided for and sett on worke within the several and respective Towneship and Village wherein he shee or they shall inhabit or wherein he she or they was or were last lawfully setled according to the intent and meaning of this act and that there shall be yearely chosen and appointed according to the rules and directions in the said act of the three & fortieth yeare of Queene Elizabeth mentioned twoe or more Overseers of the Poore within every of the said Townships or Villages who shall from time to time do performe X2& execute all and every the acts Powers and Authorities for the necessary releiffe of the Poore within the said Township or Village and shall lose forfeit and suffer all such paines and penalties for Non performance thereof as is limited mentioned and appointed in and by the said in-part-recited act