By adjournment on Thursday the Seventh day of
December 1749 .

Order for a Committee to
inspect Certificates of
allowances given to
Peace Officers for
conveying & relieving
Vagrants & Vagabonds Etc.}

It is Ordered by this Court that it be And It is hereby
recommended unto his Majestys Justices of the Peace of this
County here in after named (to wit) Thomas Lane< no role > Henry
Fielding Luke Robinson< no role > John Milner< no role > George Cooke< no role > James
Clitherow Isaac Pacatus Shard John Derbyshire Birkhead< no role >
Pierce Galliard< no role > Stephen Beckingham< no role > Merry Teshmaker< no role >
Vigerus Edwards< no role > Barwell Smith< no role > Philip Dyot Richard
Ricards Samuel Tatem< no role > Robert Tothill< no role > Peter Elers< no role > William
Withers< no role > George Errington< no role > Boulton Mainwaring< no role > John Lawton< no role >
and Walter Berry< no role > Esquires and Such other Justices of the
Peace of the Said County as Shall think fit to be present or
any three or more of them as a Committee to next together at
Hicks hall in Saint John Street on Tuesday the Ninth day of
January next at ten of the Clock in the forenoon to inspect
the Certificates of Allowances given to any Peace Officers
by any of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace of this County for the
conveying & relieving of Vagrants & Vagabonds, and to See
if they are according to the Rates & Prices mentionedmentioned
in an Order of General Sessions made in December 1747 or if
the Allowances are greater than the Rates & Prices therein
mentioned, And to State & ascertain what Sum or Sums of
Money in their opinion are owing or ought to be allowed and
paid to any and what Peace Officer or Officers for the conveying
and relieving Vagrants and Vagabonds, And in particular
to See what Certificates of Allowances have been granted
for Such Charge & Service to any and what Peace Officer by
the Right Honoble. the Earl of Kinnoull or by Richard Hassell< no role >
Esquire Since the time they respectively had first notice of
the Said Order for Setting the Said Rates & Prices and if the
Allowances Since granted are agreeable to the Same Order who
are both desired to be present at the Meeting of the Said Committee
of which Notice by Letter from the Clerk of the Peace is to be given
to them respectively, And It is also recommended to the Said
Committee or any three or more of them to inspect the Account of
Moneys claymed to be due to the Inspectors for their Paines &
trouble in relation to the distempered horned Cattle in this County
and to State and adjust what is due to them respectively for Such
Service, And the Committee are desired to make their Report
touching the Matters aforesaid to the Court of the next General
Quarter Session of the Peace to be holden for this County.