veying and shipping Vagrants in that County, but that no such order has yet been
made for those purposes in the County of Lancaster .

THAT Irish Vagrants have been shipped from Park-gate , and maintained there
in a House, which is provided for their reception, upon the following terms,
viz. 1½. per day, besides an allowance for necessaries for each Vagrant, while
maintained at the said house, and 2s. 4d. for bread, boatage and freight for
each Vagrant when put on board, and in addition to these charges the person
employed to receive, maintain and keep such Vagrants, brings in a quarterly
bill for straw, coals, victuals and necessaries for sick Vagrants, and other ex-
pences, which are allowed him each Sessions, and paid out of the Public Stock
for the said County of Chester .

THAT the Vessels statedly sailing from Park-gate to Dublin are at present
only two in number, each of 140 tons burden. That by an account taken
from the Custom-house Books at the Port of Chester of all the Vessels, as well
stated as occasional, (above 20 tons burden) which have failed from the County
of Chester to Ireland , during the last year, it appears that they have been 74
in number. And according to the proportion of one Vagrant to every 20 tons
burden of the said respective Vessels, the whole number of Vagrants which
the Magistrates of the County of Chester had, during the last year, a right to
order to be sent over to Ireland, was 102. That the Masters of Vessels sailing
from Park-gate to Ireland , have, during the year, ending at Michaelmas 1784,
carried over 1170, and have not hitherto refused to take over such Vagrants
as have been ordered to be put on board their Vessels, although the number
has, during the above period, exceeded by 1068 the proportion they were under
the Act of Parliament obliged to take according to the amount of their Tonnage.

THAT Irish Vagrants coming by Passes into, or apprehended in the County of
Lancaster , have been usually shipped from Liverpool, and maintained and lodged
in a Barn or House there kept for their reception, at the Public Expence of the
Inhabitants of the County of Lancaster , at the rate of 4d. per day during the
time the Vagrants wait for shipping, and 3s. 6d. for freight and sea store for
each Vagrant, when sent on board.

THAT there are four Packets which statedly sail from Liverpool to Dublin of
240 tons burden in the whole, and they made altogether 91 trips in the year
1783, and 93 trips in the year 1784 to Dublin, and the total amount of their
burden being 5520 tons, upon an average of the years 1783 and 1784, the
number of Vagrants which such Packets might by Law be compelled to take over
was 276 per annum, upon an average of the said years 1783 and 1784, but the
Masters of such Packets have hitherto taken over all the Vagrants from Liverpool,
except in one instance during the Summer of the year 1783, when two occasional
Vessels, called Wherrys, were hired for that purpose.

THAT by a particular account taken from the Custom-house Books at the
Port of Liverpool, it appears, that, exclusive of the Packets, the Vessels of
above 20 tons burden, occasionally failing from thence to different parts of
Ireland in the year 1783, were 842; and in the year 1784 were 746 in number.

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