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TAKEN BEFORE FINANCE COMMITTEE: 1828

John W. Warren, Esq. 18 March 1828
In cases where abuses have been discovered, what course have the commissioners taken to put an end to those abuses?—The commissioners have in fact no remedial powers; they are only to inquire and report; but they have, where it appeared that the abuse could be remedied in that way, endeavoured to do so by representation to the parties, and pointing out to them in what manner their duty ought to be performed, Rectified abuses no reported and in very numerous cases their representations have been attended to, the misconduct has been corrected; that is a good resulting from the labours of the commissioners which does not always appear from their Reports; it has been silently performed, and will so have escaped public notice ; where the abuse has been such as it was out of their power to correct, they have, under the directions of the Act, submitted those cases to the attorney-general, that he might decide whether they should be brought before the Court of Chancery in the shape of an information. Attorney-General decides whether to prosecute
Has it occurred to you and the other commissioners that any board of controlling authority could be established locally in each country , with a view of preventing the abuses in the future occurring?—No idea of that kind has been under consideration; among the commissioners it has been very much under consideration with them what methods could be adopted for preventing some of the mischiefs that have arisen in the management of the charities, such as some mode of appointing trustees where all the former trustees are dead, or there is likely to be such a failure; For trust deeds no registration. from such failures in past times we find many charities lost, or in a state of obscurity, which we have with difficulty developed;

Identifier: | JB/004/068/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 4.
Date_1	1829-06-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	004	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	068	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	charities inquiry / evidence / taken before the finance committee, and the return laid before the committee in 1828, which were presented to the house upon the 24th day of june 1829
Category	printed material	Number of Pages	8
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	(2-6)
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	1989
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