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Updated: June 23, 2025
It is enough to say here that in later years, and especially since the system of allowances adopted by the Berkshire magistrates at Speenhamland in 1795 had become general, the original policy of relieving only the destitute and helpless, and compelling able-bodied men to earn their own living, had been entirely obscured by the intrusion of other ideas.
On 6th May 1795 the Berkshire magistrates had passed certain resolutions called from their place of meeting, the 'Speenhamland Act of Parliament. They provided that the rate of wages of a labourer should be increased in proportion to the price of corn and to the number of his family a rule which, as Eden observes, tended to discourage economy of food in times of scarcity.
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