An Act for obliging the overseers of the poor, within the several parishes and places within that part of Great Britain called England, to make returns, upon oath, to certain questions, specified in the Act, relative to the state of their poor : and to authorise and require the justices of the peace, within their respective divisions and jurisdictions, in the several counties and cities in England and Wales, to take such returns upon oath, and to cause them to be transmitted to the clerk of the Parliaments.