Excerpt from Parish Law: Being a Digest of the Law Relating to Parishes Churches and Chapels, Parish Registers, Ministers of Churches and Chapels, Vestries and Parish Meetings, Church Wardens, Parish Clerks, Sextons and Beadles, Dissenters, Highways, Parish and County Rates, WatcIndependently of the general recommendation of such a work, arising from these considerations, the disposition which is spreading among Parishes, to investigate and enforce the authority of the great body of the inhabitants, over all matters of revenue and expenditure, suggested an additional motive to the undertaking. Especial care, therefore, has been taken, to explain the authority, rights, and powers of Select Vestries, whether established by prescription, or under the statutes passed for the purpose, and, in short, of parish meetings of every description.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.