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"After all," says Doctor Burn, "this kind of settlement, by

continuing forty days after publication of notice in writing, is

very seldom obtained; and the design of the acts is not so much

for gaining of settlements, as for the avoiding of them by

persons coming into a parish clandestinely, for the giving of

notice is only putting a force upon the parish to remove. But if

a person's situation is such, that it is doubtful whether he is

actually removable or not, he shall, by giving of notice, compel

the parish either to allow him a settlement uncontested, by

suffering him to continue forty days, or by removing him to try

the right."