ions, on the
ground of their not being really required for the purpose of giving
relief, and that it may be understood, in accordance with the passage
above adverted to in the Minute of the 21st July, that if it should
become necessary to recommence any such works, the renewal of them must
be provided for either in the manner above referred to, or under the
10th Vict., cap. 107.

With a view to give every practicable assistance to the presentment
sessions, the Board of Works should be prepared with plans and estimates
of those works in each district in which relief is likely to be
required, on which the destitute poor might with the greatest public
advantage be employed; and an officer of the Board should be in
attendance at the sessions, to furnish every explanation that may be
called for.

In order to prevent labourers from being induced to leave their proper
employments and to congregate on the relief works, in the hope of
getting regularly paid money wages in return for a smaller quantum of
work than they have been accustomed to give, the following rules ought,
in their Lordships' opinion, to be strictly observed:--

No person should be employed on any relief works who can obtain
employment on other public works, or in farming or other private
operations in the neighbourhood.

The wages given to persons employed on relief works should, in every
case, be at least 2d. a day less than the average rate of wages in the
district.

And the persons employed on relief works should, to the utmost possible
extent, be paid in proportion to the work actually done by them.

Their Lordships suggest for the consideration of the Lord Lieutenant,
that it may be advisable that in every case in which it may be
determined to assemble extraordinary sessions, for tin presentment of
works under the 10th Vict, cap. 107, instructions should also be issued
to the lieutenant of the county, to reassemble the relief committees of
the districts in which such works are proposed to be carried on, making
such changes in the individuals composing the committees as
circumstances may require; or, if no relief committees have yet been
organized in the districts in question, to appoint new committees in
accordance with the rules prescribed by the relief commission.

Their Lordships also suggest that, in order to obviate inconveniences
which have been experienced during the late relief operations, the
following alterations should be made in the i