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  • "Paupers", in the second line, the words: — Insane Persons.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • We have a splendid series on Aged Paupers, demanding better treatment and more sanitary conditions.

    THEFT 2010

  • In an especially illuminating Prince and the Paupers moment, the ethics committee notes that Mr. Rangel's "congressional office received complaints from constituents living" in the same complex "regarding legal actions brought against them by Olnick based on primary residency."

    The Rangel Dispensation 2010

  • Paupers were the concern of the local community, communities had only little public money, and the community solution was simple if cruel: the poor were auctioned off in a public spectacle.

    Dan Agin: How It Was: Auctioning Off the Poor in Old America 2009

  • Among Paupers 'up-and-coming artists this year will be the U. K.'s Stephen Chambers, with his series "A Year of Ranting Hopelessly" (2008), a visual diary with one sheet priced at £1,200.

    New Landscape for Limited-Edition Prints 2008

  • Paupers were the people at the absolute bottom of the social ladder, those who had nowhere to go, and no one but government to turn to.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • In many states, it was a crime to bring a pauper into a new county Paupers, as in colonial days, were “warned out” to prevent them from gaining a settlement.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Paupers were the people at the absolute bottom of the social ladder, those who had nowhere to go, and no one but government to turn to.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Paupers were the people at the absolute bottom of the social ladder, those who had nowhere to go, and no one but government to turn to.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • In many states, it was a crime to bring a pauper into a new county Paupers, as in colonial days, were “warned out” to prevent them from gaining a settlement.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

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