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 364 without notice ; upon the principle of having ubtance enough to gain credit for uch a houe. 6. Being charged to and paying the public taxes and levies of the parih; (excepting thoe for cavengers, highways, and windows ) and, 7. Executing, when legally appointed, any public parochial office for a whole year in the parih, as church-warden, &c; are both of them equivalent to notice, and gain a ettlement, if coupled with a reidence of forty days. 8. Being hired for a year, when unmarried and childles, and erving a year in the ame ervice; and 9. Being bound an apprentice for even years; give the ervant and apprentice a ettlement, without notice, in that place wherein they erve the lat forty days. This is meant to encourage application to trades, and going out to reputable ervices. 10. Latly, the having an etate of one's own, and reiding thereon forty days, however mall the value may be, in cae it be acquired by act of law or of a third peron, as by decent, gift, devie, &c, is a ufficient ettlement : but if a man acquire it by his own act, as by purchae, (in it's popular ene, in conideration of money paid) then unles the conideration advanced, bona fide, be 30𝑙. it is no ettlement for any longer time, than the peron hall inhabit thereon. He is in no cae removeable from his own property; but he hall not, by any trifling or fraudulent purchae of his own, acquire a permanent and lating ettlement.

perons, not o ettled, may be removed to their own parihes, on complaint of the overeers, by two jutices of the peace, if they hall adjudge them likely to become chargeable to the parih, into which they have intruded: unles they are in a way of getting a legal ettlement, as by having hired a houe of 10𝑙. per annum, or living in an annual ervice; for then they are not removeable. And in all other caes, if the parih to which they belong, will grant them a certificate, acknowleging them Rh