Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to Magistrates, Municipal, and Parochial Law, 1877, Vol. 9 The pauper, Henry Hardman, went to live at Birmingham in the year 1827, and continued to reside there and support himself by workin at his trade as a journe man tailor for upwa s of forty-five years from that period, down to the 3oth Ma 1872. On that da he applied for relief, an was admitted into t e Birmingham Work house under an order, on which was indorsed the word irremovable and there he remained until the end of the following month of November, working at his trade under the direction and superintendence of the master tailor of the work house in the tailors' shop. On one day, at the end of the month of November, a tailor named William Rose, living at West Smethwick, in the county of Stafford, about two miles distant, came to the Birmingham Workhouse and saw the master tailor and the uper in the tailors' shop there, when a conversation took placo between them. Mr. Rose said he wanted a man to assist him, as he was much pressed with busi ness. He had on several previous similar occa sions, through the said master tailor, obtained men from the Birmingham Workhouse, who had stayed with him till his trade became slack, and then left. He was in the habit of taking a man on at the times only when he was busy. 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.