THAT according to the proportion of one Vagrant to every 20 tons burden of
all the said Packets and occasional Vessels, sailing from the Port of Liverpool in
the years 1783 and 1784, the whole number of Vagrants which the Magistrates
of the County of Lancaster had a right to send from the Port of Liverpool to
Ireland during the year 1783 was 2164, and during the year 1784 was 1994.

THAT it appears to the Committee from authentic information that the City
of Bristol has annually been at a considerable expence in sending over to Ireland
the Vagrants belonging to that kingdom, at the rate of 5s. per head, and 1s. 6d.
for necessary stores for each person; and that the number of Vagrants sent from
Bristol to Ireland in the year 1784 was 387, and the expence about £200. That
the expences in 1782 were about £600, and in 1783 £480; but that no particular
account has been transmitted to this Committee of the number of Vagrants sent
in the two last mentioned years. That the Vagrants are usually sent from Bristol
to the nearest Port in Ireland , and the principal number to Cork.

THAT the number of Vessels above 20 tons burden which have failed from the
Port of Bristol to Ireland , during the last year, have been 121. And by an account
taken of the Tonnage of such Vessels, it appears that the whole number of
Vagrants which could, during the last year, have been sent from the Port of
Bristol , at the Proportion of one Vagrant to every 20 tons of the burden of
each respective Vessel, was 308.

THAT many Irish Vagrants which have been apprehended in the County of Mid-
dlesex, and in Counties to which Parkgate or Liverpool are not the nearest Sea Ports,
have been improperly sent to Parkgate or Liverpool, instead of being conveyed
to the Ports nearest to the places where they were apprehended, and from whence
they might have been most conveniently shipped to the Kingdom of Ireland .

THAT those Irishmen who come to work in the Harvest are in general natives of
the South West parts of Ireland , and there is reason to suppose that it is a common
practice with them to collect all the Money they have earned, and to intrust
some one or more of their Companions to carry over the Wages of a great
number of them, who being then without money, commit acts of Vagrancy by
begging, Etc.

THAT the form of the Pass prescribed by the Statute of the 17th Geo. II. C. 5.
has not been adhered to by the Magistrates of several Counties, on their passing
of Vagrants; the mode of conveyance either on Horse-back or in a Cart being
by them specified in the original Pass, whereas the same should have been inserted
in and confined to the Certificate, as a direction to the Constables within the par-
ticular Jurisdiction of the Magistrate giving such Certificate, leaving the mode
of conveyance through the other Districts in the rout of the Vagrants to the
discretion of the Magistrates in such respective districts; and this Committee
apprehend that in such instances where the mode of conveyance has been pre-
scribed by the original Passes, Gentlemen in several Counties through which the
Vagrants have been afterwards passed, have not exercised the discretion which
they had a right to do, by directing those Vagrants who were capable of travelling
on foot to be conveyed in that manner, instead of continuing the mode of con-
veyance