THE COMMITTEE of the MAGISTRATES of the respective
COUNTIES of CHESTER and LANCASTER, appointed by the
COURTS of QUARTER SESSIONS of the PEACE for the said respective
Counties, for taking into Consideration the present Mode of MAINTAIN-
ING, CONVEYING and SHIPPING VAGRANTS in the said Counties,
and the EXPENCES attending the same; and for adopting such
MEASURES as may be thought most likely to reduce such Expences,
having met at WARRINGTON on the Fifteenth Day of MARCH and
the Nineteenth Day of MAY, 1785; DO make the following
REPORT of their PROCEEDINGS to the respective COURTS of
QUARTER SESSIONS of the PEACE in the said several Counties, viz.

That it appears to this COMMITTEE ,

THAT during the space of three years, ending the 7th day of the October
1783, the number of Vagrants conveyed through the County of Chester
has been 7925, of this number 4686 have been Irish Vagrants; that the
expence of maintaining and conveying such Vagrants in general, and shipping
such of them as were Irish Vagrants has amounted to £3603:18:1, and that
the expence of maintaining, conveying and shipping of such Irish Vagrants
only has, during that period, been £2142:8:8½.

THAT by a particular account taken of the number of Vagrants of maintained
conveyed and shipped, and of the expences of such maintenance, conveying
and shipping in the County of Chester for one year, ending the 5th day of
October 1784, the whole number of Vagrants passed has been 3743, of which
2102 have been Irish Vagrants, and of that number 1170 have been shipped at
Park-gate , and 932 have been conveyed through the County of Chester to
Warrington, and from thence to Liverpool.

THAT the general expence of maintaining and conveying all such Vagrants
in the County of Chester has been £1500:19:10½, and that the expence of
maintaining

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