A Paper on the Means of Reducing the Poors Rates, and of Affording Effectual and Permanent Relief to the Labouring Classes. Presented to the Chairman of the Committee on the Poor Laws.

In this very scarce extract, Major Henry Torrens presents his proposals to alter the Poor Laws to the Parliamentary Select Committee. In this very scarce essay, Henry Torrens presents his plan to provide effectual and permanent relief to the labouring classes. As social attitudes to poverty began to change following the Napoleonic wars, an 1816 Parliamentary Select Committee began to consider an overhaul of the Poor Law system. Torrens shares his proposal to the Chairman of the Committee he Poor Laws in this extract. Unbound. Externally, smart, with bright outer pages. With some red pen the front page. Internally, the binding is a little tender, with the last two is disbound, but present. Pages are bright with some light patchy foxing. Good.