Overseers of the Poor of St. Albans v. Overseers of the Poor of Georgia
Overseers of the Poor of St. Albans v. Overseers of the Poor of Georgia
Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court. That this case comes under the 4th section of the Act concerning legal settlement, and providing for the poor, 1 Stat. p. '385 ; the words “such stranger,” in the 4th section, refer to the “stranger who shall have come to reside in sufcb town or place, and has not gained a legal settlement thereinand not to the poor stranger, on whom an order has been made. ' Jt would not be a rational construction of the Act, that a town should be compelled to order the removal of a pauper, who cannot be actually removed, or even examined, touching his ability, and last place of legal settlement.
2. On the second point, the Court consider the order of the.
Motion dismissed.
New trial not granted.
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