Three centuries of poor law administration : a study of legislation in Rhode Island / by Margaret Creech ... Introductory note by Edith Abbott.

Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago press [1936]

79920

Poor laws -- Rhode Island.

Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- Rhode Island.

Issued also as thesis (PH. D.) University of Chicago.

Appendices: I. List of laws of Rhone Island relating to the poor.--II. List of judicial decisions under the poor law. -III. Select documents relating to the history of poor relief in the colonial period and the late eighteenth century. -IV. Thirteen case histories, 1644-1724. -V. Select documents relating to the history of poor relief in the modern period.

xxii, 331 p. 23 cm