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PREFACE
CHAP.
Longmans, Green & Co. London, New York, Calcutta, and Bombay
WORKS BY SIDNEY AND BEATRICE WEBB
GRANTS IN AID: A CRITICISM AND A PROPOSAL
BY SIDNEY WEBB
Demy 8vo, 120 pp. . Price 5s. net.
ADVERTISEMENT
This is the first volume dealing with Grants in Aid as an instrument of government. In the United Kingdom, at the present time, a sum of about thirty millions sterling is annually paid by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the various Local Governing Authorities of the Kingdom. This large subvention has important effects on Local Government which have never before been critically examined. The author's thesis is that in the Grant in Aid we have unconsciously devised an instrument of administration of extraordinary potency; and that its gradual adoption during the past three-quarters of a century has created a hierarchy of local government far superior to that of France and Germany on the one hand ; and to that of the United States on the other . But the efficiency of our English system depends on the particular conditions upon which the Grants in Aid are made; and the book concludes with a detailed proposal for the complete revision, on novel principles, of all the existing subventions, and for their extension to other services. An elaborate bibliography is appended.
The book forms No. 24 of the Studies in Economics and Political Science, issued under the Editorship of the Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
PREFACE.
CHAP.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
WORKS BY SIDNEY AND BEATRICE WEBB
ENGLISH POOR LAW POLICY
LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
WORKS BY SIDNEY AND BEATRICE WEBB
Demy 8vo, pp. xxvi and 664 . Price 16s. net.
ENGLISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT
FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT
This work, the result of eight years' research into the manuscript records of the Parish and the County all over England and Wales--from Northumberland to Cornwall, from Cardigan to Kent--combines history and description in a continuous narrative of extraordinary interest. Avoiding the questions of the origin of English local institutions, and even of their mediaeval development, the authors plunge at once into a vivid description of the Parish Officers and the Vestry, Quarter Sessions and the Justices of the Peace, the Lord-Lieutenant and the High Sheriff, together with all the other authorities by which the internal administration was actually carried on. An entirely new view is presented of the social and political development of Parish Vestry and Quarter Sessions, of their relations to the Squire and the Incumbent, and of their attitude towards Parliament and the problems of their age. But the book is more than a contribution to history and political science. Practically all the counties of England and Wales, and literally hundreds of parishes, find place in this unique record of life and manners, in which are embedded not a few dramatic episodes of absorbing interest. It is a new picture of English life between 1689 and 1835 as it actually was in country and town, with graphic tracings of its results on national progress and on the social and economic problems by which we are now confronted.
THE PARISH
INTRODUCTION.
THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF THE PARISH.
THE AREA AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE PARISH; THE OFFICERS OF THE PARISH; THE SERVANTS OF THE PARISH; THE INCUMBENT; THE PARISH VESTRY; THE PARISH AS A UNIT OF OBLIGATION.
UNORGANISED PARISH GOVERNMENT.
THE PARISH OLIGARCHY; GOVERNMENT BY CONSENT; THE UNCONTROLLED PARISH OFFICERS; THE RULE OF THE BOSS; THE TURBULENT OPEN VESTRY.
AN EXTRA-LEGAL DEMOCRACY.
THE ORGANISATION OF THE PUBLIC MEETING; THE CONTROL OVER THE UNPAID OFFICERS; A SALARIED STAFF; THE PARISH COMMITTEE; AN ORGANISED DEMOCRACY; THE RECALCITRANT MINORITY.
THE STRANGLING OF THE PARISH.
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LEGISLATION; THE STURGES BOURNE ACTS; THE STURGES BOURNE SELECT VESTRIES; THE SALARIED OVERSEER; THE REFERENDUM; THE DEATH OF THE PARISH.
THE LEGALITY OF THE CLOSE VESTRY.
THE CLOSE VESTRY BY IMMEMORIAL CUSTOM; THE CLOSE VESTRY BY BISHOP'S FACULTY; THE CLOSE VESTRY BY CHURCH BUILDING ACT; THE CLOSE VESTRY BY LOCAL ACT; THE CONSTITUTIONS OF CLOSE VESTRIES.
CLOSE VESTRY ADMINISTRATION.
PROVINCIAL CLOSE VESTRIES; METROPOLITAN CLOSE VESTRIES; CLOSE VESTRY EXCLUSIVENESS; THE WORST AND THE BEST.
THE REFORM OF THE CLOSE VESTRY.
THE ASSAULTS THAT FAILED; A LONDON MOVEMENT; OPENING THE CLOSE VESTRY.
THE COUNTY
INTRODUCTION.
THE LEGAL CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNTY.
THE AREA AND DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTY; THE CUSTOS ROTULORUM; THE SHERIFF AND HIS COURT; THE HIGH CONSTABLE; THE CORONER; THE COMMISSION OF THE PEACE; COUNTY SERVICE; AN ORGAN OF NATIONAL GOVERNMENT. ON SOME ANOMALOUS COUNTY JURISDICTIONS, INCLUDING THE COUNTIES PALATINE.
THE RULERS OF THE COUNTY.
NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF JUSTICES; THE JUSTICE OF MEAN DEGREE; THE TRADING JUSTICE; THE COURT JUSTICE; THE SYCOPHANT JUSTICE AND RURAL TYRANT; THE MOUTH-PIECE OF THE CLERK; THE CLERICAL JUSTICE; THE LEADER OF THE PARISH; LEADERS OF THE COUNTY; THE LORD-LIEUTENANT AND THE HIGH SHERIFF; CLASS EXCLUSIVENESS.
COUNTY ADMINISTRATION BY JUSTICES OUT OF SESSIONS.
THE "SINGLE JUSTICE"; THE "DOUBLE JUSTICE"; THE SPECIAL SESSIONS; PETTY SESSIONS; THE SERVANTS OF THE JUSTICES; THE SPHERE OF JUSTICES "OUT OF SESSIONS."
THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS.
THE TIME AND PLACE OF MEETING; THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COURT; THE PROCEDURE OF THE COURT; ADMINISTRATION BY JUDICIAL PROCESS; THE GRAND JURY; THE HUNDRED JURY; PRESENTMENTS BY CONSTABLES; PRESENTMENTS BY JUSTICES.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXTRA-LEGAL CONSTITUTION.
THE HIGH SHERIFF AND HIS BAILIFFS; THE HIGH CONSTABLE; THE CLERK OF THE PEACE; THE COUNTY TREASURER; THE COUNTY SURVEYOR; EXECUTIVE MAKESHIFTS; COMMITTEES OF JUSTICES.
THE REACTION AGAINST THE RULERS OF THE COUNTY.
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