without notice[1]; upon the principle of having ſubſtance enough to gain credit for ſuch a houſe. 6. Being charged to and paying the public taxes and levies of the pariſh; (excepting thoſe for ſcavengers, highways[2], and windows[3]) and, 7. Executing, when legally appointed, any public parochial office for a whole year in the pariſh, as church-warden, &c; are both of them equivalent to notice, and gain a ſettlement[4], if coupled with a reſidence of forty days. 8. Being hired for a year, when unmarried and childleſs, and ſerving a year in the ſame ſervice; and 9. Being bound an apprentice for ſeven years; give the ſervant and apprentice a ſettlement, without notice[5], in that place wherein they ſerve the laſt forty days. This is meant to encourage application to trades, and going out to reputable ſervices. 10. Laſtly, the having an eſtate of one's own, and reſiding thereon forty days, however ſmall the value may be, in caſe it be acquired by act of law or of a third perſon, as by deſcent, gift, deviſe, &c, is a ſufficient ſettlement[6]: but if a man acquire it by his own act, as by purchaſe, (in it's popular ſenſe, in conſideration of money paid) then[7] unleſs the conſideration advanced, bona fide, be 30𝑙. it is no ſettlement for any longer time, than the perſon ſhall inhabit thereon. He is in no caſe removeable from his own property; but he ſhall not, by any trifling or fraudulent purchaſe of his own, acquire a permanent and laſting ſettlement.
All perſons, not ſo ſettled, may be removed to their own pariſhes, on complaint of the overſeers, by two juſtices of the peace, if they ſhall adjudge them likely to become chargeable to the pariſh, into which they have intruded: unleſs they are in a way of getting a legal ſettlement, as by having hired a houſe of 10𝑙. per annum, or living in an annual ſervice; for then they are not removeable[8]. And in all other caſes, if the pariſh to which they belong, will grant them a certificate, acknowleging them
