prevent which your Committee recommend that the Keeper of Bridewell may
be provided with a Book made Alphabetical and that he be required to enter
therein the Names of such Vagrants as shall be passed from thence together
with such brief Description of their Age and Person as may enable him or his
Agent to recollect any Person who has been before committed to his Case and
passed, and upon such Discovery it be an Order from this Court, that such
Person be not discharged or passed before the Sessions notwithstanding the Warrant
of Commitment; at which Sessions the keeper shall produce his Prisoner, and the
Record being with the Court, the Conviction will be rendered certain and easy; and
that a Reward, at the Discretion of the Court should be paid the the Keeper of
Bridewell for every Person by him so detected and proved an incorrigible
Rogue.

Your Committee are of Opinion that the Knowledge of the large Sums gained by
the Constables out of the Rates allowed by Sessions for conveying Vagabonds, may
be applied to the Benefit of the County, the effectual Conveying and Delivery of
such Vagabonds being the sale Object of the Law, and the cheapest manner of
doing it is left to the Discretion of the Court, and as the Method of conveying
by Stage Waggons or Returning Carriages is to all Intents and Purposes as
effectual as Carts or Horses which are generally appointed by the Justice, if
it can be done by means of Returning Carriages with less than half the
Charge, the County certainly ought to avail itself of this Saving and not
suffer the Constable to raise a kind of yearly Salary at the Expence of the
Publick. And your Committee are of Opinion that if a proper Person was
appointed by the Court for this Purpose of conveying Vagrants; and if
Vagabonds apprehended in this Town and adjoining Villages were committed
to Bridewell (as by far the greatest part of the Expence to this County arises
from the Beggars apprehended in this Town and Villages adjacent) such
Vagabonds might, under the Care of such Person, once a Week , or officer
if need were, be conveyed from thence by the means of Stage Waggons Etc
to the great Saving of the publick money; but if this should not be thought
a proper Method, your Committee are of Opinion that the passing of
Vagrants might be contracted for by the Keeper of Bridewell , under such
Regulations as may be directed by this Court, so as to make it an Object
worthy his Consideration; and the County may be greatly benefitted.

proposal for Conveying
Vagrants Etc.

And whereas Mr. James Sturgis Adams< no role > hath in Writing made the
following Proposal; To Contract for the Conveying all such Rogues and
Vagabonds by passes as shall be sent to the several Bridewells of
Clerkenwell Middx and Tothill Fields in the City and Liberty of Westminster