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Christian Auer, « L’irréalisable mise en application des dispositifs de recours prévus par la Scottish Poor Law de 1845 », Études écossaises, ID : 10.4000/etudesecossaises.201
The Poor relief act is almost a dead letter, and the paupers on some rolls neither get what the law allows them, nor receive their unjust pittance with anything like regularity. On looking into the statistics of pauperism in the northern counties, we meet with some startling facts, which demand inquiry. The average annual allowance to each pauper in this shire (Inverness) is nine shillings, being only one shilling more than in 1741! (Mulock, 1850, p. 57) Thomas Mulock, qui fut, pendant les de...