This not only supplied men and boys for the Navy, but saved boys from a life of vagrancy and crime.
But vagrancyincreased from people dispossessed of land.
It must be added that, before the end of its tenure of office, the Poor Law Board had become convinced that it had as completely failed to solve the problem of vagrancy as had the Poor Law Commissioners.
Reports on Vagrancy made to the President of the Poor Law Board, 1866.
The Central Authority mentioned this system with apparent approval, and remarked that it had diminished the vagrancy of Bath by over 58 per cent.
How far these vagrancy districts ever came into existence we have not yet discovered.
Refusal or neglect to perform such task, or wilful damage to property, subjected the person to be deemed an idle and disorderly person within the meaning of the Vagrancy Act of 1824.
In the Metropolis it was forced on its attention that "the great increase in the pauper population may be traced to the operation of the Houseless Poor Act, which has practically legalised vagrancy and professional vagabondism.
In the rural districtsvagrancy and mendicity still survive, in spite of constabulary forces and petty sessions.
Speed in travelling has been as prejudicial to these merry and unscrupulous gentry as acts against vagrancy or the policeman’s staff.
We have it on the authority of the Vagrancy Commission, that a regular system of fraudulent collusion between constables and tramps was common as recently as the year 1820.
This system of passports for the suppression of vagrancy never worked smoothly, and its development in later times as enforced against beggars by parish constables, led to serious abuses that will demand our attention further on.
The practical difference between the working of the parochial system and that of the rural police could find no better illustration than that afforded by a comparison of the extent of vagrancy respectively existing under the two systems.
A prisoner is entitled to a discharge on another ground, namely, because the commitment has not been filed as directed; or, on another ground, that the commitment does not recite the evidence by which the fact of vagrancy was proved.
The finale of such an experiment at housekeeping as this is very frequently a commitment for vagrancy to Blackwell's Island.
Vagrancy Commitment "on Confession," and its Action on Blackwell's Island.
These same proscribed houses of prostitution are suffered to exist uncontrolled, and to spread disease and increase crime and vagrancy in all parts of the city.
The vagrancy commitments by which women are "sent up" are generally insufficient, and there is no legal power to detain them, and force them to submit to the treatment they so much require.
If ignorance be the mother of inefficiency, inefficiency the mother of vagrancy, and vagrancy the mother of crime, it is plain that the removal of ignorance will stop the others.
It is plain to me that ignorance is the cause of inefficiency, inefficiency the cause of vagrancy, andvagrancy the cause of crime.
The laws of vagrancy were so changed as, in many of their provisions, to apply only to him, and under their operation all freedom of movement and transit was denied.
In the succeeding reign the operation of the Vagrancy Act was powerfully aided by the rise of the Puritans, who regarded all amusements as worldly vanities and snares of the Evil One, and indulgence in them as a coquetting with sin.
But I'm pretty wise--vagrancy is about all they've ever pinned on me.
The charge of vagrancy was very inclusive, and a man could skirt very near the edge of felony and still manage to achieve a nominal punishment.
The physicalvagrancy changed subtly, exquisitely, to a symbol of a vaster meaning--a spiritual vagrancy that suddenly captured him in bitter pain.
In your blood, remember, lies an unearthly spiritualvagrancy which you must not, dare not, communicate to him, if you ever hope to see him cured.
In reference to flogging under the old Vagrancy Act, he wrote: “There are scores or hundreds of these old laws which are a disgrace to civilization.
Stealing and vagrancy among boys has decreased too; if not so fast, yet at a gratifying rate.
What is worth noticing here is the disposition, even in a Parliament composed of country gentlemen, to emphasise the connection between the problems with which anti-enclosure and anti-vagrancy legislation have to deal.
Bills are introduced dealing with forestallers, regrators, and engrossers of corn, with vagrancy and pauperism, and with enclosures, and a committee is appointed to consider the latter question.
By the latter part of the century, at any rate, statesmen have begun to understand that pauperism and vagrancy stand to the depopulation caused by enclosure in the relation of effect to cause.
Emancipation produced vagrants, and he asked for a stringent vagrancy law which his landrosts could administer.
To read th' papers, it seems to be a kind iv a vagrancy law.
The greatest century of pilgrimage was past, butvagrancy was an ever-increasing problem, and inasmuch as it affected the social life of England, it affected hospitals, directly or indirectly.
In France and Belgium we find the same relative frequency of vagrancy and swindling; but homicide, incendiarism, and conspiracy are less frequent, whilst rape is more common in France (.
After theft, the most numerous in Italy are vagrancy (5 per cent.
As to those persons, Judge Carson, Mr. Ross, and myself were unanimous in the opinion that some of them could be indicted under the vagrancy law.
Another large batch were disposed of under a vagrancy law, which allowed us to put them to work on the roads of the provinces for not exceeding two years, usually six to twelve months.
Substantially everywhere in the United States, vagrancy laws were in force which decreed that an able-bodied man out of work and homeless must be adjudged a vagrant and imprisoned in the workhouse or penetentiary.
But to accept the conditions of vagrancy one must first embrace the loathsome thing itself.
The partition which stands upon the narrow dividing line between vagrancy and crime is but a paper wall, and any hot-hearted insurrectionary may break through it at will.
