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Order touching the
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Putting the Laws
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in executor wth.
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relate to the Paving
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& cleanseing the
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streets Etc
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Whereas Complaint hath been made at this
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Generall Session of the Peace held for this County That
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notwithstanding the many necessary and wholsome
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Provisions made for cleansing and Paveing the
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Streets Lanes and other Publique Places Comprized
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within the Bills of Mortality by the Laws & Statutes
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now in force, Yet by the great negligence of the
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Scavengers Rakers and other Officers as well as
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an almost nitire neglect of the Inhabitants in Sweeping
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their doors Etc as directed by the Statutes, the Streets
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Lanes Alleys and Publique Plates are in a most
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ruinous and dirty condicon, not only in respect to the
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Pavements being broke and wore down in most of
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the High Streets, but also by the Poore sort of
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People laying at their doors dust, dirt, coal-ashes,
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dung and other filth and rubbish to the great
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annoyance of his Majestys good Subjects in Passing
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the Streets above their lawfull occasions,
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And Whereas Extracts of all the Laws now in
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force for Paveing and cleansing the Streets have
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been Printed, and the Justices have frequently in
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the most earnest terms press'd the Inhabitants
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to Pay a due obedience thereto, and have made
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examples by convicting and levying the Penalties
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on Some of the most remarkable Offenders, Yet
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experience Sufficiently demonstrates that a more
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Vigorous Execucon of these Laws are required
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from the Magistrates to render them usefull to
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the Publique and to answer the good ends intended
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by our Legislators,
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And Whereas this Court hath taken into
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Serious consideracon the great destruction made
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among mankind in the South on Parts of Francis
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by the Plague And considering the wise & necessary
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Precautions taken in all parts of Europe to prevent
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the contagion Spreading, and being fully Satisfied that
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the cleansing and paveing the Streets and keeping them
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