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Octr. Sess: 1721
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Rept. of the Comittee
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concerning the
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preventing &
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removeing of
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publique Nusances
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& annoyances Etc
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Your Comittee to whom it was recommended and preferred
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to consider of the most proper and effectual methods to put
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in Execution the Laws for preventing and removing all
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Publick Nusances; and Annoyances within the Weekly Bills
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for mortality have in Obedience to the said Order, bearing
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date the Nineth of this Instant October considered the
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subject matter to them Referred under the several heads
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in the said Order Particularly mentioned Vizt.
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The removing Vagrants who begg in the Highways or
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Publick places.
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Persons harbouring Inmates contrary to Law wandering
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Persons, who have no setled place of a bode, and may
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become chargeable to any Parish
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Butchers who annoy the Neighbourhood by Slaughter Houses
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Persons Retailing Brandy, Geneva and other Distill'd Liquors
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Scavengers and Rakers who neglect taking away the Dirt
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fifth and other Soil in Publick markets for Flesh and
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Garden stuff.
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The Cleaning the Streets and mending the Pavements
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the state and Condition of the Goals.
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The Committee being sensible that the suffering loose Idle
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people who are Lame, with distorted Limps or otherwise
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Distemper'd to begg in the Streets and Publick passages
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within the Bills of Mortality may conduce to the Spreading
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any Infection among us are of opinion that the Justices
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at their Petty Sessions or Meetings in their severall
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Divisions do give Orders to the Constables Beadles Etc.
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to apprehend all Vagrants and Sturdy Beggers and to
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carry them before the Justices so Assembled, to be
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dealt with according to the directions in the statute
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of the 12 ts. of the late Queen Ann for punishing of
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Vagrants Etc which said Statute your Comittee are of
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opinion ought to be Strictly and immediately put in
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Execution-and in order to render the Endeavours of
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