Middlesex ss.

Ad Generalem Quarterialem Session
nem Pacis Domine Regine tent' pro Comitatu Midd [..]
sexie, apud Hicks-Hall in S. John-Street , in Comitatu
predict' per Adjornament. die Martis Scilt' Undecimo die
Maij, Anno Regni Domine nostre & ANNE, Dei Gra-
tia, nunc Regine & Angliae, Etc. Secundo.

HER Majesties Justices of the Peace for this County now Assembled
at this General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, holden for the Coun
ty, do in pursuance of the late Statutes relating to the Punishing
and Passing of Vagrants, hereby Order, Ascertain, and Set down,
That the several Rates which hereby are, and shall be allowed by any Justice or
Justices of the Peace for this County, to any Constable or other such Officer of
this County, for maintaining and conveying and carrying of such Vagrants as
shall be pasted or carried through their respective Divisions in this County, for
this Year 1703. and until the End of the then next Quarter Sessions of the
Peace to be held for this County after Easter next, shall be as followeth:

(That is to say) For Maintaining of all and every such Vagrants, the F [..]
Six Pence for each Vagrant Person for Four and twenty hours, and so af [..]
Rate for a longer or Shorter time: And for Conveying and Carrying
Vagrant or Vagrants Names are contained in one Pass, conveyed
alone or together, a [..] or turn by Care or Horse-Carriage,
Six [..] Mile ar [..] re: And for conveying of such Vagrant [..]
or [..] under and [..] Six pence per Mile, according to the [..]
the respective Justic [..] Peace for this County, who shall sigh [..]
Passes, or Certificate [..] allowance. But if any of the Justices ot [..]
of this County shall [..] fit and fee good Cause to Allow and Order [..]
greater Rates for the maintaining, conveying, and carrying of any su [..]
grant or Vagrants to be conveyed and carried as aforesaid, by reason [..]
Vagrants Sickness or Impotency, or by occasion of any other Extraordinary
Accident; that then so much of the said Greater Rates as shall exceed the Ra [..]
hereby before Ascertained, shall not be paid unless the same be first communi-
cated and certified to the Justices of the Peace of this County, at the next Gene-
ral or Quarter Sessions of the Peace held for this County, after the maintaining,
conveying and carrying of such Vagrants, and shall be approved and allowed of
by the said Court of Sessions. And this Court is of the Opinion, and doth de-
clare that no Person or Persons whatsoever, except such as are Vagrants by Law,
ought to be received, maintained, conveyed, and carried through this County
by virtue of the said Acts of Parliament for passing of Vagrants as aforesaid,

Per Cur'
Harcourt.