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(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, this Conference is in favour of uniting with the County
Councils Association, the Association of Municipal Corporations,
the Association of Metropolitan Borough Councils, the Magistracy,
and the Association of Poor Law Unions of England' and Wales for
the following purposes, viz.:—(a) To enlist the sympathy and cooperation
of members of Parliament; (b) to appoint representatives
to wait on the Local Government Board; (c) to give evidence before
the Inter-Departmental Committee of the Government on the
Vagrancy Question; (d) to take such other measures as may be
thought desirable in support of the resolutions arrived at by the
Conference.
That a Committee be appointed to give effect to this resolution.
DISINFECTING DEPARTMENT.
The following figures give the number of rooms and articles
disinfected: —