Infringement Of Poor Law Regulations

Stephen Wilson an inmate of the Dover Union was charged with neglecting to certain work allotted to him at the Dover Union.

Arthur Frazer porter at the Dover Union said the prisoner was an inmate.  He was set to superintend some men who were employed in some work connected with the Union and he left them without giving any explanation and absented himself from the house.

The prisoner said that while engaged as stated a brother whom he had not seen for some time came to pay him a visit and having brought a little drink with him he (prisoner) took rather more than was good for him.  He was very sorry for having absented himself.

The Magistrates told the prisoner that when an able man like himself fell chargeable to the parish and became a burden on the rest of the society the least he could do was to obey the rules of the institution that afforded him asylum. The punishment of the offence would be seven days imprisonment with hard labour.

1870.