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To the CLERK of the PEACE as Town Clerk
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for the
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SIR,
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It appears to this Society that great mischief and
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expence have arisen by not enforcing generally the laws against vagrants, and by
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the aduse of granting walking or begging passes indiscriminately to any person
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applying for the same, and that it will be impossible to correct such abuses but by
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the general execution of the law throughout each county; for which purpose,
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this Society beg leave to recommend to the Justices, at their Quarter sessions, to de-
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pute two Magistrates to meet in
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, after Christmas, during the session of
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, to consider of the proper steps to enforce generally the laws against
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vagrants, and to correct such abuses in future.
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And it appearing that great benefit has accrued to the counties of
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Oxford
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and
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by the plan adopted in those counties of employment of prisoners by hard
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labour, and which plan might become of great public utility in case it was gene-
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rally adopted throughout the Kingdom; this Society beg leave to recommend to
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the Magistrates to take the same into their serious consideration at such meeting:
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and likewise to bring forward such plans for the general reform of the police, as
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they shall think most adviseable, and to be assured that every assistance will be
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given by this Society to carry the resolutions of the Magistrates at such meeting
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into effect.
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MONTAGU,
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President of the Society for giving Effect to his Majesty's
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Proclamation against Vice and Immorality.
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P.S. It will be esteemed as a particular favour, if you will send the names and
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place of abode of the two Magistrates, when appointed by the Quarter Ses-
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sion, to the Secretary, Mr. Bennett, under cover, directed as follows
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To his Grace the Duke of Montagu, President of the Society for giving
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Effect to
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his Majesty's Proclamation,
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July 23th 1789
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