and Settle to Work Rogues and Vagabonds that Shall be disposed to Work there
to be holden to work by the Oversight of the Overseers to get their living
and to be Sustained only upon their own Labour and Travel

Also a Tax for Prisoners in Common Goals is Enacted

18th. Eliz. C. 3. S. 5. Ordains that within every County there Shall be one two
or more abiding houses or Places convenient in Some Market Town Esq by Purchase
Lease Building or otherwise by the appointment and Order of the Justices or more
part of them in their Said General session (of the Inhabitants to be Taxed Etc) Shall
be Provided and called the House or Houses of Correction and also Stock and Store of
Implements to be in like Sort Provided for Setting at Work and Punishing not
only of these which by the Collectors and Governours of the Poor for causes
aforesaid shall be brought but also Etc [Vagabounds]

S. 6. The Justices of the Peace or the more Part of them in their General Session
Shall and may appoint from time to times persons which Shall be overseers of every
Such House of Correction which Said Persons Shall be called the Censors or Wardens
of the Houses of Correction and Shall have the Rule Government and Order of
Such Houses of Correction according to Such Order as by the Justices of Shall be
Prescribed refusing to be Governor of the Poor or Censor and Warden or Collection
for the house of Correction to For feit £5

S. 7 Collectors Etc to accompt and refusing to be Committed to the Houal Goal
till account upon the making of which account Such Persons as have the
appointment of Said Collectors and Governors of the Poor Cencers Wardens and-
Collectors of the Houses of Correction to allow as well such Reasonable allowances
for Money employed or disbursed in the Exection of the said several Offices
As also Such Reasonable Fees and Wages for their Pains taken in that
behalf as shall be thought convenient and reasonable

The Foregoing Statues were repecled by the Following one

39 Eliz. 4. An Act for Punishing Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Begars
Whereby tis Enacted That It shall be lawfull for the Justices in Quarter Sessions
or the more Part of them to Set down Orders to Erect one or more houses of
Correction for doing thereof and providing of Stocks of Money and other things
necessary and for raising and governing the Same and for Correction and
Punishment of offenders Such Orders as Etc Shall be of Force

2d. 5 Describes Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars
3d. & 4. The manner of Apprchending and Punishing

There are several other Clauses not material and a Commission Authorized
as in that of 43d Eliz expounded in 2d. Just 707

By 7 Ind. Cap. 4. S. 1. Whereas heretofore divers good and necessary
Laws and Statutes have been made and Provided for the Correction of house of
Correction for the Surpressing and Punishing of Rouges Vagabonds or other Idle