Note 296 — Chapter III

For this, the leading case in England of national relief works, see Professor Smart's Memorandum on the Poor Law Board, in Report of the Poor Law Commission, 1909, Appendix, vol. 12; Annual Reports of the Poor Law Board, 1862-3 to 1865-6 inclusive; History of the English Poor Law, by T. Mackay, 1899, vol. iii., pp. 398-424; The Facts of the Cotton Famine, by Dr. John Watts, 1866; History of the Cotton Famine, by R. A. (afterwards Sir Arthur) Arnold, 1864; Lancashire's Lesson, by W. T. M'Cullagh Torrens, 1864; Public Works in Lancashire for the Relief of Distress, 1863-6, by Sir R. Rawlinson, 1898.