Now upon Reading and duly considg. the Report of the Committee
appointed to Examine and Report what Benefit hath arisen to this
County from an Order of Session dated the [..] July 1757 relating to the
apprehending and conveying Vagabonds

This Court are of Opinion that the said Order of Session hath been
productive of great Benefit to this County in the following Instance Vizt.

By lissening the Expence of this County on the Article of Vagabonds
upwards of £350 the year the said Order look place compared with the
Preceeding Years; and if the whole Magistracy of this County had conformed
themselves to the said Order the Expence then would have been lessened
£500 and upwards.

By the Cautions given in the said Order of Sessions respecting
Frugality in disposing of the Public Money paid to the apprenhenders
of Vagabonds, that Article decreasd upwards of £178 the last Year
compared with the preceeding Once.

By putting an effect strong to the granting Vagarant Passes
to casual Poor, where As [..] had been committed, the
Orders of conveying are there by lessened upwards of 700. compared
with the Year Preceeding.

By produceing more regular Proceeding upon the Vagrant Act
particularly a much large Number of Duplicates of Passes and
Examinations appear to have been returned to Sessions in
Proportion to the Orders issued for Rewards to the appprehenders of
Vagabonds, whereby the Conviction of incorrigible Rogues is rendred
more certain.

And this Court are of Opinion that the accosting the furthers
Proposal of James Sturges Adams< no role > for receiving and conveying
Vagabonds from Stains Colnbrook South Mims and Endfield and
clearing the Bridewells of Clerkenwell and Tothillfields and other
Lodgments four times a Week as mentd. in the sd Report, will
produce a further saving to this County. And that by conveying
such Vagabonds by the Means of One P son instead of the
Constables at large, the Detection of incorrigible Rogues with
be rendred more certain, and this County be relived from the
repeated Expence [..] by this
Return ofter being punished and passed.

Ordered, That the said James Sturges Adams be
Contracted with under the Regulations proposed by
the Report of the Committes, such Contract to take
Place when the said James Sturges Adams, hath
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