Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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27th October 1757 - 9th December 1762

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Image 257 of 2671st March 1739


An Abstract of which Account is as follows
1240- Orders of Conveying£325..19s..0d
131 Orders for Rewards£67..17s..6d
The Contract£120..-..-
Extra Maintenance£40..-..-
£553..16s..6d

Of the above Sum £149..13..0 was paid contrary to the Order of Sessions.
General State of the Account
Anno 1757 Paid£924..11s..9d
1758£553..16s..6d
£370..15s..3d

The Difference in the two Years is is Favour of the Order of Sessions
£370..15..3 but if the Money be taken off which has been Ordered by
some Magistrates contrary to the Order of Sessions, amounting in the
whole to £149..13s the Decrease of the Expence could then have been upwds.
of £500. That they also observed that it the Recommendatory Order of
July 1757 had been attended to by the Magistrates in General, as, by
referring to the General Account, it will appear to have been by being
of the Justices, proportioning the sums to the Distance of Place
and Trouble the Apprehander might have, a much greater Saving
would have been made upon that Article.

That they observed that the Constables of Glass House Yard Liberty
to whom the Vagabonds from the East and London and Southwark are,
generally delivered in their Passage to the North, as their Premiary
Interest was greatly affected by the Contract for passing Vagabonds, have
tried every Effort in their Power, to defeat the said Contract, and when they
found themselves unable to get any Magistrate in Town to sign Orders for
Conveying contrary to the Order of Sessions; the said Constables have
Artfully prevailed upon a Magistrate at upwards of Ten Miles Distant
to sign such Orders to a large Amount, and upon inspecting the said
Orders, it appears that the said Constables did not deliver such Vagabonds
themselves, but employed One Matthew Deane< no role > to deliver them and
swear to their Delivery, although the Money was received by the said
Constables as appears by the Receipts upon the Back of the respive Orders
What Profit has accrued to the said Constables from this Practice, may be
judged by the Affidavit of Arthur Lander< no role > : And also from the Confession
of the said Constables; by which it appears that they have made a Sine Cure
of upwards of £50 P Annum And that the sd Commee are of Opinion, the
not with standing such Orders, do Recite a pass granted by the Justices
there in mentioned no such pass was produced to the said Magistrate




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