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(a) That Boards of Guardians should be grouped in suitable
areas to provide labour colonies for vagrants
(b) That such colonies should be established and governed
by the joint committees of the Boards of Guardians of
the Unions in the said areas.
(c) That habitual vagrants should be sent to such labour
colonies by Magistrates.
(d) That the expenses of each colony should be spread over
the unions in the areas served by such colonies.
Children of Vagrants.
17. That the powers of the Poor Law Guardians under the
Poor Law Acts of 1889 and 1899, to assume and exercise, in
certain circumstances, parental rights over the children of pauper
parents should be extended so as to confer similar rights over
the children of habitual vagrants.
Generally.
18. That, in order to give practical effect to the foregoing
resolutions, the Conference is in favour of uniting with the
County Councils Association, the Association of Municipal
Corporations, the Association of Metropolitan Borough Gouncils,
the Magistracy, and the Association of Poor Law Unions of
England and Wales for the following purposes, viz.:—
(a) To enlist the sympathy and co-operation of Members of
Parliament.
(b) To appoint representatives to wait on the Local Government
Board.
(c) To give evidence before the Inter-Departmental
mittee of the Government on the Vagrancy Question.
(d) To take such other measures as may be thought
sirable in support of the resolutions arrived at by the
Conference.
A Committee was appointed to give effect to this resolution.
19. That the best thanks of the Conference be accorded to
the Chairman for his conduct in the Chair.
(Signed) C. F. Thwaite.
Joseph Priestley.
November 28th, 1904.