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Examination they may appear to have a Settlement and deal
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farther with them, in such manner as they are enabled by the
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Statute of the 12 of the late Queen aforesaid
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Your Comittee are likewise of Opinion That where Justices
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apprehend my danger of infection by Persons suffering too
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great a Number of Inmates contrary to Law, to harbour
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in any House-in such case your Comittee recomend the
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Binding over the Landlord or Keeper of such House to the
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next Quarter Sessions, there to answer for their harbouring
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such Inmates contrary to Law and to oblige the Church
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Wardens or Overseers to prosecute them for such offence
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The Annoyances occasioned by Butchers from their
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Slaughter Houses coming next under the Consideration of
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your Comittee, they are of Opinion that as there is noe
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statute in force upon which the Justices can proceed to effect
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against such Offenders they conceive the only proper methods
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are to prosecute them for these Offences, as they are
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Nusances by
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Your Comittee in the next place are to take Notice of
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the great Destruction made by Brandy and Geneva Shops
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whose Owners Retail their Liquors to the poorer sort of
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People and do suffer them to Sett Tipling in their Shops,
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by which practice they are not only render'd incapable
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of Labour to get an honest living but (by their Bodys
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being kept in a continued heat) are thereby more lyable
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to receive Infection.
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To present in some measure these sort of Evils for the
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future, your Comittee are of opinion-That the Justices be
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desired to proceed to Suppress all Shops who Retail
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these sort of Liquors without Licence where they are
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not excused by any Law from taking Licences.
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Your Comittee do likewise observe that the great
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Number of Hogs are kept by Brewers Distillers Starch
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makers and other Persons within the Weekly Bills of
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Mortality contrary to the Statute of the 2d & 3d William
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and Mary made for paving and cleansing the Streets
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within the paid Limitts which your Comittee are of
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Opinion are at all times a very great Annoyance to his
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Majesty's Subjects and must be very dangerous it God
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