Searchers, and Such especially, who have been formerly
concerned in making Bricks and Tyles, or by other means
may be presumed to understand the Business, tho' they do
not now follow the Imployment. And that the Searchers
Should be appointed, not as they are at present for the
whole County, & with liberty to all of them to Range over
itt, but that this County Should for this purpose be
divided into the Four following Districts Vizt.

Westminster & Holborn Divisions, to be one District
Finsbury and Tower Divisions, to be another
Edmunton and Gore Divisions, to be a Third
And Brentford & Uxbridge Divisions to the Fourth

And that Four Searchers and noe more be appointed for
each of these Districts, and to Continue for one year and no
longer, unless this Court Shall think fitt to rechuse or Continue
them, in Consideration of their good Service, And that these
Searchers Doe give to this Court an Account of their proceedings
in writing on the first Day of every Easter and every Octobe.
Sessions, that the Court may be the better enabled to Judge
of their behaviour, and to give them Such further Directions
as Shall be necessary.

Your Committee observing also, That notwithstanding the
Penaltie of Twenty Shillings per Thousand and all the
provisions in the present Lawes, The Generall Practice
hath been and Still Continues, to make Bricks with
Spanish, And being informed that Severall Brickmakers
are now Carrying Spanish on their Lands to mix with
their Brick earth for next Summers Worke, Wee thought
it our Duty to inspect the Severall Acts of parliament
relating to Brickmaking in Order to putt a Stop to Such
irregular proceedings, But wee cannot find in any of
these Statutes any power lodged in this Court or in any
Justices of this County, or in the Searchers appointed by
this Court, Sufficient to prevent of remedy these illegall
practices, In the Statute of the Twelfth of King George
the first there are large powers given to the Company
of Bricklayers to fine and levy by distress twenty