overseer

Converse of object

• appoint: These divisions have four overseers appointed annually, with a permanent assistant overseer.
• pay: The Overseers paid for the poor in other ways than through the workhouse.
• say: Ordered that the said late Overseers do forthwith pay the s d Ballance to M r.
• become: Nicholls became an overseer for the parish between around 1821 and 1823.
• name: The library was originally established by an overseer named Mr Stirling, who was a famous mathematician.
• have: Each parish had overseers who could levy a poor rate to raise money to give to the poor.

Converse of subject

make: We understand that the appeal made by the overseers of Selby in July against the proposed increase in the County rate has been successful.

Adjective modifier

• salaried: In 1704 six sidesmen were chosen to assist the churchwardens and an additional, salaried, overseer was appointed in 1782.
• assistant: The ground floor offices are occupied by the rate collectors and assistant overseers.
• un: Asked whether the UN oil overseers had consulted with SOMO over the proposed changes, he replied: " Not at all.
• late: Francis Wigley the Late Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of S t.
• present: John Townsend the present Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of S t.

Noun used with modifier

• parish: However, the collection of the poor rate within each parish continued to be performed by parish overseers.
• oil: The Security Council agreed last week to receive weekly updates on oil prices from the oil overseers.
• assistant: These divisions have four overseers appointed annually, with a permanent assistant overseer.

Possessives

account: Sometimes the payment of poor rates is recorded in the overseers ' accounts or a separate Poor Rates book.

Preposition: of

• parish: Any person giving information to the overseers of the parish of Lawshall shall receive 2 guineas.
• poor: Overseers of the poor readily paid five shillings for a pair of wool cards to make the poor self-supporting.
• church: Dozens of potential full-time overseers of local churches here.
• work: March 1820 Carlisle Canal Was employed as overseer of works.