Abridgement of the Abstract of the Answers and Returns Made Pursuant to an Act, Passed in the Fifty-fifth Year of His Majesty King George the Third, Intituled an Act for Procuring Returns Relative to the Expence and Maintenance of the Poor in England ; and Also Relative to the Highways: So Far as Relates to the Poor. Explanation of the Abridgement. For the Purpose of Compressing the Abstract of Poor Returns Into One Volume, the Fractional Parts of a Pound Have Been Omitted in All the Columns ; Except in Those of Charitable Donations, Many of which Donations are So Small, that the Exact Amount Becomes of Comparative Importance, and Therefore the Shillings, Pence, and Farthings are Inserted ; as They are Also in the County Totals of All the Money Columns, and in the Grand Total of the Entire Abstract