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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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the Justices effectual on this head, your Comittee think
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it would be of great use to print Advertisements in
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some of the Publick Papers Signifying the Penaltys the
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Constables are lyable to, by the said statute for not
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apprehending Vagrants, and the Rewards given to all
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Persons whatsoever who shall take up such Vagrants
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and Sturdy Beggers, which the Justices by the said
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Advertisements may declare they will levy on all
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Constables in whose Divisions such Beggers shall pass
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Unapprehended by according to the directions in the said
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Statute
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Your Comittee proceeding to consider the next head
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to them referr'd, relating to persons Entertaining
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Inmates did receive Information from severall
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Gentlemen in the Commission of the Peace, by which
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it appears That besides the ordinary and too much
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accustomed method used by Persons in letting out their
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Houses to Inmates, its now become a comon Practice
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in the extream parts of the Town to receive into their
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Houses, Persons unknown without distinction of Age
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or sex, on their paying one penny or more P Night for
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lying in such Houses without Beds or Covering
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That his frequent for fifteen, twenty or more to lye
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in a small Room, where it some times happens that poor
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Wretches are found Dead, and the Corps have lain many
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days among the living before the Parish officers have
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been prevailed on to put them into the Ground
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Your Committee having well Weighed the danger of Infeccon
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from these Wicked and in human practices are of
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Opinion-That the Justices in their Petty Sessions and
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Publick meetings as aforesaid, do order the Constables
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or other proper officers to Sumons before them all Persons
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who harbour Inmates, and where it do's appear upon
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Examination that such Inmates have no legal Settlement
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in such Parishes and are not able to produce Certificates
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of their Settlements elsewhere-That the Justices
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do imediately pass them to such Parish where upon
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