Plan for the Better Relief and Employment of the Poor: For Enforcing and Amending the Laws Respecting Houses of Correction, and Vagrants

Thomas Gilbert's work lays out a practical, hard-edged program for improving the relief and employment of impoverished people by strengthening the legal machinery around poverty. Focusing on enforcement and reform, it examines how existing laws should be applied more consistently and amended where they fail, especially in relation to houses of correction and the handling of vagrants. The book emphasizes discipline and oversight, aiming to reduce disorder while channeling the poor into regulated work rather than leaving them to drift outside the boundaries of society. Through its detailed attention to institutions, procedures, and legal responsibilities, Gilbert presents poverty not simply as a social problem, but as a matter of governance-one that can be managed through targeted rules, stricter compliance, and clear administrative control. Plan for the better relief and employment of the poor - For enforcing and amending the laws respecting houses of correction, and vagrants is an u