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<p n="462"> THAT the Magistrates of the different Counties, and other Jurisdictions, be<lb></lb>
requested to make orders at their Quarter Sessions for regulating the mode and<lb></lb>
ascertaining the allowances for apprehending and conveying Vagrants in their<lb></lb>
respective Districts.</p>
<p n="463">THAT it also be requested of the Magistrates granting Passes, that they do in the<lb></lb>
examinations of all Vagrants, specify the places of their last Settlement or Residence,<lb></lb>
and the circumstances which occasioned them to become Vagrants.</p>
<p n="464">THAT it be recommended to the Magistrates granting Passes, to adhere to the<lb></lb>
directions of the Act of Parliament, as to the form of the Pass; and not to prescribe<lb></lb>
the particular mode of conveyance in the Pass, but leave the same to the discretion of<lb></lb>
the Magistrates, in the several Counties through which the Vagrants are conveyed,<lb></lb>
according to the condition and circumstances of the Vagrants when they arrive in<lb></lb>
such respective Counties. And that it also be recommended to the Magistrates in<lb></lb>
the Counties where Vagrants shall be brought by Passes, not to attend or confine<lb></lb>
themselves to any mode of conveyance which may be directed by the original Pass,<lb></lb>
but to vary the same as they in their discretion think proper.</p>
<p n="465">THAT it be also to recommended to Magistrates granting Passes for the convey-<lb></lb>
ance of Irish Vagrants, to order that they shall be sent to the nearest Port to the<lb></lb>
place where they are apprehended, and from whence they may be most conveniently<lb></lb>
shipped for Ireland.</p>
<p n="466">THAT it also be represented to the different Magistrates, that when a man, his<lb></lb>
wife and child, or children, are apprehended and taken before a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50801_occ153">Justice of the Peace</rs>
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to be passed, one sum of ten shillings only, ought to be allowed in any such case to<lb></lb>
the Constable, or other person apprehending them, and not ten shillings for each of<lb></lb>
them; the wife in the first instance being under the influence of the husband, and<lb></lb>
the children in the other instance being under the direction of their parents.</p>
<p n="467">THAT it be also recommended to the said Justices not to allow a reward for<lb></lb>
apprehending any person who applies for a Pass, or wants to be conveyed to the<lb></lb>
place of his or her Settlement, or to his or her native country, or for apprehending<lb></lb>
any person who has asked relief merely on account of his or her having been delayed<lb></lb>
in his or her journey by bad health, or accidental misfortune, and who is in the<lb></lb>
direct road to his or her place of settlement or native country, and can give a<lb></lb>
good account of him or herself; the service done by the Constable in such cases<lb></lb>
being not to the public, but to the person who is to have the benefit of being carried<lb></lb>
home at the expence of the public.</p>
<p n="468">THAT the Magistrates of the several counties and districts be desired to consider<lb></lb>
how far they are bound by the before-mentioned Statute, to allow ten shillings each<lb></lb>
for apprehending rogues, vagabonds, and incorrigible rogues, as a matter of course;<lb></lb>
or whether the power of allowing that reward is not meant by the legislature to be<lb></lb>
discretionary in the Magistrates; and whether it ought to be extended farther than as<lb></lb>
a suitable encouragement for Constables or other persons to do their duty, and so as<lb></lb>
to be a proper recompence to any Constable or other person for his trouble in appre-<lb></lb>
hending such rogues or vagabonds as appear to be common beggars, and dangerous<lb></lb>
vagrants,</p>
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