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Punishment for absconding from workhouse, refusing to work, or disobeying the rules of the commissioners, &c.
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58. Every person who shall refuse to be lodged and maintained in the workhouse of any union, or abscond out of such workhouse while his wife, or any child whom he may be liable to maintain, shall be relieved therein, and every person maintained in a workhouse who shall refuse to be set to work, or shall be guilty of drunkenness, insubordination to the officers of the union, or disobedience to the rules prescribed or sanctioned by the commissioners for the government of such workhouse, or of other misbehaviour therein, and every person who shall introduce or attempt to introduce spirituous or fermented liquors into any workhouse, contrary to the orders of the commissioners, shall, on conviction thereof before any justice of the peace at petty sessions in open court, either by the confession of such offender, or by the evidence on oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses, be committed to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding one calendar month.
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