Octr. Sess: 1721

Rept. of the Comittee
concerning the
preventing &
removeing of
publique Nusances
& annoyances Etc

Your Comittee to whom it was recommended and preferred
to consider of the most proper and effectual methods to put
in Execution the Laws for preventing and removing all
Publick Nusances; and Annoyances within the Weekly Bills
for mortality have in Obedience to the said Order, bearing
date the Nineth of this Instant October considered the
subject matter to them Referred under the several heads
in the said Order Particularly mentioned Vizt.

The removing Vagrants who begg in the Highways or
Publick places.

Persons harbouring Inmates contrary to Law wandering
Persons, who have no setled place of a bode, and may
become chargeable to any Parish
Butchers who annoy the Neighbourhood by Slaughter Houses
Persons Retailing Brandy, Geneva and other Distill'd Liquors
Scavengers and Rakers who neglect taking away the Dirt
fifth and other Soil in Publick markets for Flesh and
Garden stuff.

The Cleaning the Streets and mending the Pavements
the state and Condition of the Goals.

The Committee being sensible that the suffering loose Idle
people who are Lame, with distorted Limps or otherwise
Distemper'd to begg in the Streets and Publick passages
within the Bills of Mortality may conduce to the Spreading
any Infection among us are of opinion that the Justices
at their Petty Sessions or Meetings in their severall
Divisions do give Orders to the Constables Beadles Etc.
to apprehend all Vagrants and Sturdy Beggers and to
carry them before the Justices so Assembled, to be
dealt with according to the directions in the statute
of the 12 ts. of the late Queen Ann for punishing of
Vagrants Etc which said Statute your Comittee are of
opinion ought to be Strictly and immediately put in
Execution-and in order to render the Endeavours of