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Guardians to have same authority as parents in cases of orphans under 15 years of age relieved in a workhouse.
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8. Every child under the age of fifteen years, without a parent, relieved in a workhouse, shall be subject to the authority of the board of guardians in the same manner as such child would be subject to the authority of its parents or parent, if living together with such parents or parent, excepting as regards the religious denomination of such child; and no such child shall be discharged from the workhouse otherwise than by the order of the board of guardians; but nothing herein shall authorize the detention of any child without a parent, if any relative of such child, who in the opinion of the board of guardians shall be a fit person to be intrusted with such child, and of sufficient ability to maintain such child, shall claim its discharge from the workhouse for the purpose of its being maintained out of the workhouse otherwise than at the charge of the poor rates.
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