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Poor persons claiming to pay cost of their maintenance, &c. to be separately registered and not to be disfranchised.
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6. Every poor person admitted into the fever hospital or infirmary of a workhouse who shall on admission claim to repay the entire cost of his or her maintenance therein, according to the full average cost thereof, as herein-before stated, and every poor person admitted into such fever hospital or infirmary on whose behalf the person liable by law to maintain such poor person shall claim to repay the entire cost of such maintenance therein as aforesaid, and every constable or sub-constable so admitted, shall be entered in a separate register from that in which the other persons admitted into the workhouse are registered; and the person so relieved and the person so claiming shall not, after payment of the said charges of maintenance, be subject to any disfranchisement or disability as persons having received relief from the poor rates; and such register shall at all reasonable times be open for the inspection of those persons who shall desire to examine or take extracts from it, without any charge for such inspection or extracts; and a copy of such register, or of any part of it, signed by the clerk of the union, and under the seal of the board of guardians, shall be legal evidence of the facts stated in such copy in any court of record, without proof of the signature of the clerk, or of the affixing of such seal.
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