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Continued, Thursday,
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31st. Jany. 1799
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Report.
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anticipated by the Wisdom and policy of our Ancestorse
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Care of ye. Sturdy
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"o Idle & Prisoners
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"guit at the Sessions
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That for the third Class of Persons who were the
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"original Objects of Bridewell" the sturdy and the Idle, and
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"likewise such Prisoners as are quit at the Sessions", the local
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Situation and the accommodation of Bridewell, seem to be
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well adapted. That, besides the separation of the Sexes,
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and of the different Classes of Persons. it appears to your
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Committee to be expedient that there should be some
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general labour, not requiring Skill or instruction, for
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those who are not capable, and desirvces of being employed
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in any other more Profitable Work:That for these there
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should be an inforcority of condition, as to diet, accommedation
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and Clothing, in order to induce hem to endeavour do
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obtain and preserve a Situation in one of the other Classes,
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and to make them avioid what would be the consequence
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of Misbehaviour in the other Classes, their being reduced
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again to the inferior Class.
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Vagrants to be
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passed shod. be
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distingusished lyd.
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Magistrate so as to
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passd. blameless
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immediately, &
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parish the rogue
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dragabond by Cooper
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comfinement:
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That there is a part of the third Class, which, tho'
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discredited by the general name of Vagrants, is composed
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of Persons very different in character conduct and
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circumstances; The honest and unfortunate sufferer
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being confounded with the Vicious, and Profligate, who
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have a bundoned their Fainilies, their Parishes and the
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places where their Labour and industry might be useful
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That, the Sentence of "a Weeks Idleness & confinement"
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to all of them at the same time that it is too favorable
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for one part of them, is Severity and in justice to the
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others' therefore your Committee is of opinion that a
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more strict judicial inquiry ought to be made into the
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cases of Vagrants committed to Bridewell and white the
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unfortunate and blameless Passenger, is favoured by a
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speedy and comfortable return to his or her own Parish
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the Rogue & Vagabond should receive that proper Correction
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which
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