Here is an interesting link which explains the token system as well as offering a wealth of other detail:
https://www.workhouses.org.uk/Birmingham/
It has a birds eye view drawing, dated 1852, showing a maypole in the children's section; no doubt included to allow respectable citizens who paid their poorlaw taxes to sleep more comfortably at night.
It also mentions 'tramps' as a separate category, I imagine because they were homeless and so not necessarily the resposibility of the parish.
I once lived close to the Western Road complex and well into the 1960s there was a provision for 'tramps' who would gather around the entrance of a morning. Some were lucky enough to have sleeping accomodation
but were expected to keep reasonable hours. I don't know what the curfew was but it must have been well before the pubs turned out for I well remember one character that could never keep to the rules.
He would often be seen chortling his way down Western Road from the Birmingham Arms rattling a few pennies in his tin cup only to find that he had been locked out. He would hang about ringing on the bell at the iron
gate until some disgruntled warder let him in. I imagine they would keep him waiting to teach him a lesson but it never worked. He was always laughing though he was as blind as a bat, however he got across the Dudley
Road to get to the pub and then back again, I'll never know.