In the past, the poor box was set up by the parish or the political community and administered by an alms manager (also: almsvogt, Armenvogt, Almosenpfleger, Almosenier, Spendmeister; alms manager, almoner: an official attached with the distribution of alms) with the purpose of providing fellow citizens in need with the means necessary for their subsistence. The poor relief fund was fed – from precisely defined levies, such as the wedding table money or the nonagium, as well as – from voluntary donations by wealthy citizens. – See poor money, dispensation money, fall money, wedding money, purchase-free money, octroi, death money.

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