the Said Division from time to time to return to the Justices of
the Peace residing in the Said Division at their Petty Sessions
or other General Meeting the Names of the Persons who Shall
offend in any of the Premisses aforesaid to the intent that the
Offenders may be prosecuted and dealt with according to Law.

By adjournment on Friday the 27th. day of April 1750 .

Order for Mr. Higgs the
Twarer to pay £3.12s.6d
to the Churchwardens Etc of
the Parish of St. Paul Shadwell
for their Charges on account
of Ann Bentley< no role > a
Warder & Beggar.}

Upon the humble Petition of the Churchwardens & Overseers of the
Poor of the Parish of St. Paul Shadwell in this County praying an
Order of this Court for the Treasurer of the Said County to pay to them
the Sum of three Pounds twelve Shillings and Six pence for Charges
which they have been put unto and expended for the lying in of Ann
Bentley a Wanderer & Beggar who was delivered of a Male Bastard
Child on the twenty Seventh day of January last in the Said Parish
in the Street there (to which Parish She doth not belong) whereby
She became Chargeable to the Same, the Officers being obliged to take
her and her Said Child into the Workhouse , and to provide a Mid wife
and other Necessaries for her, and that the Said Ann Bentleys Child
died in the Said Workhouse the Sixteenth day of this instant
April, and was buryed at the Charge of the Said Parish, and that
the Said Ann Bentley< no role > was Kept in the Said Workhouse from the
Said twenty Seventh day of January until the Ninth day of this
instant April by reason of her being very Sick and weak after her
lying in, On which day She was conveyed before and committed by
Walter Berry< no role > Esqrs . one of his Majestys Justices of the Peace of this
County to the House of Correction pursuant to the Act of Parliament
made in the Seventeenth Year of his present Majesty, and that her
legal Settlement is in the Parish of St. George in the Said County
which Matters are Set forth in the Said Petition, And It appearing
to this Court by the Oath of John Bowler< no role > and John Burt< no role > that the
aforesaid Matters are true to the best of their Knowledge remembrance
and belief, and that the Said Sum of £3.12s.6d is reasonable for
the aforesaid Charges, It is thereupon Ordered by this Court that
Mr. John Higgs< no role > Treasurer of this Courty do pay unto the Churchwardens
and Overseers of the Poor of the Said Parish of St. Paul Shadwell
or to Some or one of them the Said Sum of three Pounds twelve
Shillings and Six pence, which this Court doth adjudge a reasonable
Satisfaction for the Charges the Said Parish hath been put to an Account
of the Premisses, whole Receipt together with this Order Shall be a
Sufficient Discharge to the Said Treasurer for Such payment.