BY JONATHAN LEAVITT, Esq. Counsellor at Law. BRICANT We find within our breasts the active principles of humanity, Out of this reflection BELISARIUS. Juris præcepta sunt hæc honeste vivere, alterum non lædere, The poor shall never cease out of the land; therefore I' THE NEW YORK 151050 ASTOR, LENOK AND TILBEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, To wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the 5th day of DecemL. S ber, A. D. 1810, and in the thirty fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JONATHAN LEAVITT, of the said District, has deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit: "A Summary of the Laws of Massachusetts, relative to the settlement, support, employment and removal of Paupers. By JONATHAN LEAVITT, Esq. Counsellor at law. We find within our breasts the active principles of humanity, social affection and generous sympathy. Out of this reflection springs a sweet reward for all the labors of benevolence.-BELISARIUS. Juris præcepta sunt hæc honeste vivere, alterum non lædere, suum cuique tribuere. JUSTINIAN. The poor shall never cease out of the land; therefore I command thee, saying, thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land.DEUT. XV. II. In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;" and also to an Act intitled, "An Act supplementary to an A&t, intitled, an Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical, and other Prints." WM. S. SHAW, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. INTRODUCTION. THE ways and means of gaining legal settlements have been different in different periods of time. The time comprised in this Sketch is divided into five periods; that is to say, between the year During those periods, the law of settlement was different in one from what it was in the other. A full view of the law, as it existed in each period, would doubtless be a useful thing. A short view, if correct, may be of some service. That the one presented in the following pages may be, in some measure, serviceable, is the wish of the Author. |