Poor-Laws of Massachusetts and New York With Appendices Containing the United States Immigration and Contract-Labor Laws; July, 1895 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Poor-Laws of Massachusetts and New York: With Appendices Containing the United States Immigration and Contract-Labor Laws; July, 1895 The poor-laws of any single state cannot be adequate ly considered apart from the laws of other and especially Of adjacent states. For general purposes, however, it is not necessary to go into a detailed account of the laws of every state; this would lead to wearisome repetition. It may be said in general that the states have followed the example either Of Massachusetts or Of New York in their poor-relief legislation; that is, they have adopted either the town or the county system. The historical develop ment Of poor-relief legislation in Massachusetts and New York is presented as typical of that development in other states as well. The history and experience Of these two states is perhaps richer and more instructive than that of any others. They have had to face difliculties from an early period which have scarcely begun to make them selves felt even now in newer states removed from the sea-board especially with regard to immigration. New York as the port whence immigrants spread all over the country has had to deal with a floating Class Of foreign paupers, and with problems connected therewith peculiar to this state alone. The complications which enter into interstate relations, owing to the diversity Of laws in the several states, have received peculiar exemplification in the relations existing between Massachusetts and New York. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.