If a person entered a parish where he or she had no official liquidation and it seemed likely that the new parish would be charged, then an inspection would be made by the judges (or parish supervisors).

From this inspection under oath, the judges would determine if that person had the means to support himself. The results of the inspection were documented in an Inspection Document.

As a result of the inspection the trespasser would either be allowed to stay or be removed by means of what became known as an Order of Removal, the origin of the modern equivalent of a “Notice of Eviction and Removal” when a sheriff removes people from their home.

According to the various settlement acts from the 17th century onwards until the introduction of Birth Certificates, the issuance of a Certificate of Settlement was considered a privilege, not a right.

If a peasant wished to move, the parish from which he lived would choose to issue a Certificate of Settlement which then effectively became indemnity insurance for the new parish, if the beggar was unable to earn a living.

A settlement certificate was only valid if it was pierced with the seals of the supervisors of both parishes and that of the local judges, and was not transferable. This is the same model of modern passports used today for citizens listed as “P” (Pawns or Poor or Destitute).

Due to the increase in the number of “poor”, in 1723 a new law was passed called the Poor Asylum Trial Act (1723) in which those who wished to claim benefits and relief as poor now had to enter an “asylum”. for the poor”, being essentially a prison for men, women and children to perform some established work.

To ensure that all the poor were considered and could be identified, new laws were also introduced to force the Poor to wear a letter “P” on their right shoulder as a mark of their status.

This is the origin of both the “P” still placed as a mark on modern passports and other “official” documents, and the “P” worn by 20th century prisoners.

Beginning in 1773 with the Enclosure Act of 1773, followed by the Enclosure Consolidation Act of 1801, the English Parliament effectively “privatized” massive amounts of common land for the benefit of a few, causing huge numbers of landed peasants to arrive. to be “landless poor” and therefore in need of assistance from the parish. The Fencing Acts are the basis of the Land Title as it is known today.

Due to the deliberate “legal” theft of land under Parliamentary Enclosure laws of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the number of poor people increased dramatically.

This led to the introduction of the most horrible and cruel laws to deliver to an elite few, the slave labor necessary for the industrial revolution through the Poor Law Amendment Act (1834), which effectively established that the The poor could not receive any benefits unless they were constantly “employed” in a poorhouse-prison.

Therefore, despite the international treaties against slavery, a worse slavery was born being a “paid slavery” or “legal slavery” through which men, women and children lived in terrible conditions and were worked “until death” .

Beginning in 1834, a number of historical changes were introduced in the registration of births, deaths, and marriages, the issuance of documents, and the administration of the “poor”:

1) In 1834 the British Parliament introduced the Poor Law Amendment Act (1834), which reorganized Church of England parishes into unions that would be responsible for the poor in their area and administered by a Board of Guardians of the Poor Law, also known as the Board of Guardians. Clerks of the Magistrates’ Courts still held the power of a Clerk of the Board of Guardians; Y

2) In 1835, the Municipal Corporations Act (1835) was introduced, which effectively standardized the corporate model for towns and municipalities, including making the municipality responsible to elected officials for data collection and administration service.

3) In 1836 the Births and Deaths Registration Act was introduced, which for the first time created the General Registration Office and the requirement of uniform registration of births, deaths and marriages throughout the Empire, by Municipal Councils and Unions of parishes. Thus, on July 1, 1837, the Birth Certificate was formed as the successor to the Settlement Certificate for all the “poor” dispossessed of their land by birthright, for being considered “voluntary” legal slaves. with benefits provided by the parish/region, funded by the Society of Lloyds (financial services group provider of banking and financial services in the UK and overseas) as it is to this day.

Beginning in 1871, historic changes in the administration of “vital statistics” such as birth certificates and death certificates were encouraged with the introduction of health districts or “sanitary districts.”
The Local Government Act of 1871, the Public Health Act of 1872 and the Public Health Act of 1875, created a system of “districts” -called “Sanitary Districts”- governed by a Sanitary Authority responsible for various matters of public health , including mental health, legally known as “sanity”. Two types of Sanitary Districts were created, these being Urban and Rural.
While the health districts were “abolished” in 1894 with the Local Government Act of 1894, the administration of the “poor” is still maintained in part under the concept of boards of health district Guardians, including magistrates and other “Judges of Health”. Peace”.
Since 1990, under the United Nations (UN) and World Health Organization (WHO) Convention on the Rights of the Child, the system of issuing birth certificates as proof of a man or woman being a permanent member of the marginal class, has become an international system.