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<p n="1270">By adjornment on Thursday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55602_date166">23d. day of February, 1748</rs>
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<p n="1271"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for returning thanks<lb></lb>
to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1271-1">Thomas Lane</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
Chairman of the Court, and<lb></lb>
for continuing him<lb></lb>
Chairman.}</note>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1271-2">His Majesty</rs>
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's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1452">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the County of Middx<lb></lb>
assembled at this present General Sessions of the Peace being very<lb></lb>
Sensible of the great Services done to this County by <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1271-3">Thomas Lane</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1453">Esquire</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1454">Chairman of this Court</rs>
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in his wife and prudent<lb></lb>
Administration of Justice Do unanimously return their<lb></lb>
thanks to him for the Same, And for the benefit of the Publick<lb></lb>
do continue & elect the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1271-4">Thomas Lane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1455">Esquire</rs>
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to be Chairman<lb></lb>
of the General Quarter and General Sessions of the Peace to be<lb></lb>
holden for the County of Middx between Lady day 1749 and<lb></lb>
Michaelmas then next ensuing.</p>
<p n="1272">By adjornment on Thursday the 23d. day of February 1748.</p>
<p n="1273"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for laying a Case<lb></lb>
before St. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1273-1">John Strange</rs>
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Knt.<lb></lb>
concerning the relieving<lb></lb>
Sick Vagabonds.}</note>
A Debate happening in this Court concerning the Charge and<lb></lb>
Expence of Maintaining a Vagabond who is or Shall be ordered to<lb></lb>
be conveyed by a Peace Officer by virtue of a Pass under the hand<lb></lb>
and Seal of a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1456">Justice of the Peace</rs>
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to the place of his legal Settlemt.<lb></lb>
and Shall in the way thither fall very Sick insomuch that there is a<lb></lb>
Necessity of leaving Such Vagabond in the Parish Hamlet or Liberty<lb></lb>
where So taken Sick until he is in a Condition to be further conveyed,<lb></lb>
And a Question ariseing whether the Charge & Expence of relieving<lb></lb>
and maintaining Such Vagabond in his Said Sickness ought to be<lb></lb>
born & defrayed by the County of Middx out of the County Rate<lb></lb>
Money or by the Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor of the<lb></lb>
Parish Hamlet or Liberty wherein Such Vagabond is taken<lb></lb>
Sick and left, This Court doth not think proper to proceed to a<lb></lb>
Determination thereof, But doth Order that a Case concerning<lb></lb>
the Said Matter be drawnup and laid before St. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1273-2">John Strange</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1457">Knt</rs>
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. for his Opinion therein, And that Mr. Higgs do attend the<lb></lb>
Said St. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1273-3">John Strange</rs>
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with the aforesaid Case and give him his<lb></lb>
Fee upon the Same.</p>
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