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Relief in workhouses.
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41. When the commissioners shall have declared any workhouse of any union to be fit for the reception of destitute poor, and not before, it shall be lawful for the guardians, at their discretion, but subject in all cases to the orders of the commissioners, to take order for relieving and setting to work therein, in the first place, such destitute poor persons as by reason of old age, infirmity, or defect may be unable to support themselves, and destitute children, and, in the next place, such other persons as the said guardians shall deem to be destitute poor, and unable to support themselves by their own industry or by other lawful means: Provided always, that in any case where there may not be sufficient accommodation for the relief of all the persons applying for relief whom the guardians shall deem to be destitute poor, the guardians shall relieve such of the said persons as may be resident in the union before or in preference to those who may not be so resident.
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