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• Modern methods of charity; an account of the systems of relief, public and private, in the principal countries having modern methods (The Macmillan company;, 1904), by Charles Richmond Henderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Économie politique chrétienne. (Meline, Cans et compagnie, 1837), by Jean-Paul-Alban Villeneuve-Bargemon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public relief and private charity (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1884), by Josephine Shaw Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of poor relief legislation in Iowa (State historical society of Iowa, 1914), by John Lewis Gillin and State Historical Society of Iowa (page images at HathiTrust)
• The vagrancy problem. The case for measures of restraint for tramps, loafers, and unemployables. (P. S. King & son, 1910), by William Harbutt Dawson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of the English poor law, in connection with the state of the country and the condition of the people (P. S. King & son;, 1898), by George Nichols, Henry George Willink, and Thomas Mackay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The laws of the Hebrews : relating to the poor and the stranger, from the "Mischna-Hathora" of the Rabbi Maimonides (P. Richardson, 1840), by Moses Maimonides and James Watts Peppercorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economie politique chrétienne, ou, Recherches sur la nature et les causes du paupérisme, en France et en Europe, et sur les moyens de le soulager et de le prévenir (Paulin, 1834), by Alban Villeneuve-Bargemon (page images at HathiTrust)
• (Une) Forme spéciale de chomage; le travail casuel dans les ports anglais. (Rousseau, 1913), by Joseph Malègue (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Charity and the poor law. (Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1901), by S. D. Fuller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Public relief and private charity (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1884), by Josephine Shaw Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical view of Ireland : from the period of the union : with plans for the permanent relief of her poor, and the improvement of her municipal organization : to which is annexed, a comparative survey of the laws and institutions of foreign states, for the maintenance, education, and protection of the working classes (W.F. Wakeman ;, 1831), by James Butler Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economia politica cristiana, ó, Investigaciones sobre la naturaleza y las causas del pauperismo en Francia y en Europa, y sobre los medios de socorrerlo y de prevenirlo (Imprenta de La Esperanza, 1852), by Jean-Paul-Alban Villeneuve-Bargemon and José de Soto y Barona (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Poor laws and their bearing on society : A series of political and historical essays (L.J. Hjerta, 1840), by Erik Gustaf Geijer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public welfare law, revised to June 1, 1931. (J.B. Lyon company, 1931), by New York (State) and New York (State). Department of Social Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public welfare law, revised to July 1, 1933 .... (J.B. Lyon company, printers, 1933), by New York (State) and New York (State). Department of Social Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Armer und armen-verband : eine studie zum armenrecht. ([s.n.], 1912), by Wilhelm Sardemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters on the condition of the poor : addressed to Alexander Henry, Esq., containing a vindication of poor laws and benevolent societies, proofs of the injustice of the general censure of the poor for extravagance, dissipation, etc., instances of intense suffering in Philadelphia ... (s.n.], 1835), by Mathew Carey and Alexander Henry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient laws against immorality (C. Crownfield [etc.], 1729), by John Disney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du droit des pauvres sur les spectacles (G. Gounouilhou, 1905), by Roger Simon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Public relief and private charity. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1884), by Josephine Shaw Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adatok a magyar szegényügy rendezéséhez. (Márkus S., 1908), by Tivadar Forbáth and Elberfeld (Germany) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A dologház és lakói. (Franklin-társulat könyvnyomdája, 1891), by Gyula Fekete (page images at HathiTrust)
• Économie politique chrétienne (Paulin; [etc., etc.], 1834), by Alban Villeneuve-Bargemon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fattigva rdslagstiftningen ... (Tryckt hos P. Palmquists aktiebolag, 1915), by Sweden. Fattigva rdslagstiftningskommitte n, Jacob Theophil Andersson, Gustaf Lindstedt, Johan Wide n, and Sweden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Simple measures, by which the recurrence of famines may be prevented, and the pressure of the poor laws greatly abated, by a slight and partical change in our common agricultural practice. ([n. p.], 1816), by William Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fourteenth report with the minutes of evidence, and appendix. ([London?], 1838), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the New Poor Law Amendment Act (page images at HathiTrust)
• English poor law policy. (Longmans, Green and co., 1910), by Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Code relating to the poor in the state of New York : containing such laws of a general and special nature, in force in 1870, as relate to the support and maintenance of the poor (Weed, Parsons and company, 1870), by Edward Wade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poor debtor law of Massachusetts. (Little, 1883), by Charles Edward Grinell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plan for the relief of the poor in Ireland, with observations on the English and Scotch poor laws, addressed to the landed proprietors of Ireland. (J.M. Richardson, 1830), by William Smith O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rate in aid : a letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Roden, K.P. (J. McGlashan, 1849), by Isaac Butt and Robert Jocelyn Roden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das armenwesen in 77 deutschen städten und einigen landarmenverbänden. Dargestellt auf grund der verhandlungen und statistischen untersuchungen des Deutschen vereins für armenpflege und wolhthätigkeit (Armenstatistisches Bureau des Deutschen vereins für armenpflege und wohlthätigkeit, 1886), by Victor Böhmert and Deutscher Verein für Armenpflege und Wohltätigkeit (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handy guide to the duties of overseers of the poor, assistant overseers and collectors of rates. (London, 1921), by A. O. Hobbs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The present state of the Poor-Law question : in letters to the Marquess of Salisbury (John Murray, 1833), by Charles Wetherell and James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil Salisbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poor law orders : the Relief regulation order, 1911, and the Boarding out order, 1911, with other orders relating to the administration of relief, together with introduction, notes, and explanations, being a supplement to the volume of poor law orders issued in 1907. (P.S. King & Son, 1912), by Herbert Jenner-Fust (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An abridgment of cases upon poor law, from 5 & 6 Vict. to 20 & 21 Vict. (1842 to 1858) (Shaw and Sons, 1858), by W. G. Lumley and John Frederick Archbold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considerations on the state of Ireland : being the substance of an address delivered before the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, at the opening of its seventeenth session, on Wednesday, November 18, 1863 : with an appendix, containing a comparison of the English and Irish Poor Laws with respect to the conditions of relief (E. Ponsonby, 1864), by John K. Ingram and Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rating : principles--practice--procedure. (Estates Gazette [etc.], 1910), by Philip Michael Faraday and W. J. Jeeves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Du paupérisme, ce qu'il était dans l'antiquité, ce qu'il est de nos jours; des remèdes qui lui étaient opposés, de ceux qu'il conviendrait de lui appliquer aujourd'hui. Suivi d'une analyse de la législation ancienne et moderne sur ce sujet, avec l'exposition des opinions des économistes et des publicistes qui ont spécialement traité de cette matière. (Guillaumin, 1842), by C. G. de Chamborant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statistical account of Upper Canada (London : Published by Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers' Court : And J.M. Richardson, Cornhill, 1822., 1822), by Robert Gourlay (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical view of Ireland : from the period of the union : with plans for the permanent relief of her poor, and the improvement of her municipal organization : to which is annexed, a comparative survey of the laws and institutions of foreign states, for the maintenance, education, and protection of the working classes (W.F. Wakeman ;, 1831), by James Butler Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laws regarding state paupers (State of Connecticut, 1919), by Connecticut and Connecticut. Department of State Agencies and Institutions (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Vagrancy Problem.: The Case for Measures of Restraint for Tramps, Loafers, and Unemployables: With a Study of Continental Detention Colonies and Labour Houses, by William Harbutt Dawson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The poor mans friend, or A narrative of what progresse many worthy citi- [sic] of London have made in that godly work of providing for the poor With an Ordinance of Parliament for the better carrying on of the work. Published for the information and encouragement of those, both in city and countrey, that wish well to so pious a work. (London : printed by A.M. for Tho. Underhill at the Bible in Woodstreet, 1649. [i.e. 1650]), by Rice Bush and England and Wales. Parliament. Proceedings. 1647-12-17 (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Die Armen-Versorgung in Oesterreich, oder Zusammenstellung sämmtlicher das Armenwesen betreffenden Gesetze und Verordnungen. (Mayr, 1846), by Johann Ernest Tettinek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das reformirte österreichische heimatrecht. Eine theoretische und praktische darstellung unter berücksichtigung der strittigen fragen, nebst einer formulariensammlung (M. Perles, 1901), by Emil Postelberg and Max Modern (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Das deutsche armenrecht insbesondere das reichsgesetz vom 6. juni 1870 über den unterstützungswohnsitz in seiner bedeutung für die privatwohlthätigkeits-vereine und- anstalten. Mit einem anhange über die öffentliche armenpflege in Bayern. (Deutschland, 1898), by Charitasverband für das katholische Deutschland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bayerisches heimatrecht und unterstützungswohnsitz. Unter zugrundelegung von beispielen aus der bayerischen praxis. Inaug.-diss. (J. Hörning, 1911), by Alfred Maurer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Two reports addressed to His Majesty's commissioners appointed to inquire into the administration and operation of the poor laws (B. Fellowes ;, 1834), by C. H. Cameron, Giovanni Arrivabene, John Welsford Cowell, John Wrottesley Wrottesley, and Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)

• The charities of San Francisco: a directory of the benevolent and correctional agencies, together with a digest of those laws most directly affecting their work (Book room print, 1894), by Charles Kelley Jenness and Stanford University. Department of economics and social science (page images at HathiTrust)
• The charities of San Francisco : a directory of the benevolent and correctional agencies : together with a digest of those laws most directly affecting their work (Published for the Dept. of Economics and Social Science, Leland Stanford Jr. University, 1894), by C. K. Jenness and Stanford University. Department of Economics and Social Science (page images at HathiTrust)

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