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At a Petty Session of Her Majesty’s Justices of the
Peace for the County of Cornwall holden in and for the
Division of Pyder in the said County, at Saint Columb on
the ninth day of September in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty Before us FREDERICK
ROGERS Esquire and WILLIAM MOLESWORTH Clerk two of her
Majesty’s Justices of the Peace of and for the said
County.
Whereas the parish of Padstow in the County of Cornwall
is situated within the Saint Columb Major Union in the
said County and such Union is situated within the said
Division of Pyder in the said County.
And Whereas the Guardians of the said Union have now
applied to us, the Justices here assembled, and holding
the Petty Session aforesaid, in and for the Division
aforesaid for an order upon WILLIAM POLKINGHORN of the
parish of Saint Columb Major in the said County whom
they the said Guardians charge with being the putative
father of a female child, which has lately been born a
bastard of the body of JANE BILLING and has by the
inability of the said Mother of such child to provide
for its maintenance become chargeable to the said parish
of Padstow to reimburse such Union for the maintenance
and support of the said child.
And the said application coming on now to be heard
before us the said Justices, so here assembled as
aforesaid, according to the Notice hereinafter
mentioned, and it being now duly proved to us that seven
days’ Notice of the intention of the said Guardians to
make such application, under the hands of the said
Guardians, was duly given to the said WILLIAM POLKINHORN
The said WILLIAM POLKINHORN being now called and not
appearing either by himself or his Attorney. We the said
Justices so here assembled as aforesaid, nevertheless
proceed to hear such application in pursuance of the
Statute in such case made and provided. And it being now
proved to us, the said Justices so here assembled as
aforesaid that the said Child on the sixteenth day of
March last past, that is to say, since the passing of an
Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of His late
Majesty entitled, “An Act for the amendment and better
administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in
England and Wales” at the parish of Saint Columb Major
aforesaid born a bastard of the body of the said JANE
BILLING And that the said child on the twenty second day
of August last past, and within three Calendar Months of
the making of this present application by reason of the
inability of its said Mother to provide for its
maintenance became, and from thence hitherto hath been
and still is chargeable to the said parish of Padstow
And it being duly proved on Oath now here, as well by
the evidence of the said JANE BILLING the Mother of the
said child, as upon other testimony corroborative in
material particulars of the evidence of the said JANE
BILLING to the satisfaction of us the said Justices
here, that the said WILLIAM POLKINHORN is the father of
the said child. We the said Justices here assembled as
aforesaid, having heard the evidence in this behalf
adduced, are satisfied of the facts aforesaid, and that
the said WILLIAM POLKINHORN is really and in truth the
father of the said child. And it appears to us, the
Justices so here assembled as aforesaid, to be just and
reasonable under all the circumstances of the case, that
the said WILLIAM POLKINHORN should pay unto the
Guardians of the said Union such Sum or Sums of money as
the said Union has expended And also such Sums as the
said Union may from time to time expend, for the
maintenance and support of the said child, not exceeding
the sum of One Shilling and eight pence by the week.
And Whereas no application has been made with respect to
the said child to any Court of General Quarter Sessions
under the provisions of the said Act, so entitled as
aforesaid.
Therefore, we, the said Justices, so here assembled as
aforesaid, do now hereby order that the said WILLIAM
POLKINHORN do pay unto the Guardians of the said Union
the Sum of Five Shillings expended by the said Union for
the maintenance and support of the said Child from the
twenty second day of August aforesaid, when the said
child became chargeable as aforesaid to the present
time, And do also pay to the Guardians of the said
Union, weekly and every week from henceforth, until the
said child shall attain the age of Seven Years, (if the
said child shall so long live and continue to be
chargeable to the said parish of Padstow) such sum and
sums of money as shall be weekly expended by and on
behalf of the said Union for the maintenance and support
of the said child during the time last aforesaid not
exceeding the sum of One shilling and eight pence in
each and every week. Given under our hands and Seals at
the Session aforesaid.
(Signed) F. ROGERS (and
Sealed)
(Signed) Wm
MOLESWORTH (and Sealed)
On the Reverse:
Order on Wm Polkinghorn
of St. Columb
of Bastardy
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