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<p n="574">Rotation Office Litchfield Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50753_geo334">Soho</rs>
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22d. April 1782</p>
<p n="575">Minutes of the Committee appointed to Examine into the Lanes<lb></lb>
respecting Gaming and Garning Houses</p>
<p n="576">Present</p>
<p n="577"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50753_n577-1">Thomas Bishop</rs>
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Esqr. in the Chair<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50753_n577-2">William Addington</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50753_n577-3">John Lewis</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50753_n577-4">John Barnfather</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50753_n577-5">Jeremiah Bentham</rs>
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Esqr<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50753_n577-6">James Croft</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50753_n577-7">Sampson Wright</rs>
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Esqr.</p>
<p n="578">Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50753_n578-1">James Croft</rs>
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having informed this Committee that<lb></lb>
Mr. Aldermen Crosly had in a Conversation on the Subject of the<lb></lb>
business of this Committee said that the Lord Mayor and Aldermen<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50753_geo335">City of London</rs>
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were very willing and desirous to join the<lb></lb>
Magistrates of this County in their intended application to<lb></lb>
Parliament for an act more Effectually to check the Permisions <lb></lb>
practice of Gaming Resolved that the offer be Cordially<lb></lb>
accepted and that as soon as this Committee have come to any<lb></lb>
Resolutions and Clauses proper to be offered to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50753_geo336">House of<lb></lb>
Commons</rs>
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that Copies of such Claluses be sent to Mr Alderman<lb></lb>
Crosby with an Invitation for an Interview upon the Subject</p>
<p n="579">Adjourned till tomorrow Evening at<lb></lb>
Six o Clock same place</p>
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