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<p n="817">Octr. Sess: 1721</p>
<p n="818"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Rept. of the Comittee<lb></lb>
concerning the <lb></lb>
preventing &<lb></lb>
removeing of <lb></lb>
publique Nusances<lb></lb>
& annoyances Etc</note>
Your Comittee to whom it was recommended and preferred<lb></lb>
to consider of the most proper and effectual methods to put<lb></lb>
in Execution the Laws for preventing and removing all<lb></lb>
Publick Nusances; and Annoyances within the Weekly Bills<lb></lb>
for mortality have in Obedience to the said Order, bearing <lb></lb>
date the Nineth of this Instant October considered the <lb></lb>
subject matter to them Referred under the several heads<lb></lb>
in the said Order Particularly mentioned Vizt.</p>
<p n="819">The removing Vagrants who begg in the Highways or<lb></lb>
Publick places.</p>
<p n="820">Persons harbouring Inmates contrary to Law wandering <lb></lb>
Persons, who have no setled place of a bode, and may<lb></lb>
become chargeable to any Parish<lb></lb>
Butchers who annoy the Neighbourhood by Slaughter Houses <lb></lb>
Persons Retailing Brandy, Geneva and other Distill'd Liquors<lb></lb>
Scavengers and Rakers who neglect taking away the Dirt<lb></lb>
fifth and other Soil in Publick markets for Flesh and <lb></lb>
Garden stuff.</p>
<p n="821">The Cleaning the Streets and mending the Pavements<lb></lb>
the state and Condition of the Goals.</p>
<p n="822">The Committee being sensible that the suffering loose Idle <lb></lb>
people who are Lame, with distorted Limps or otherwise<lb></lb>
Distemper'd to begg in the Streets and Publick passages<lb></lb>
within the Bills of Mortality may conduce to the Spreading<lb></lb>
any Infection among us are of opinion that the Justices<lb></lb>
at their Petty Sessions or Meetings in their severall<lb></lb>
Divisions do give Orders to the Constables Beadles Etc. <lb></lb>
to apprehend all Vagrants and Sturdy Beggers and to<lb></lb>
carry them before the Justices so Assembled, to be<lb></lb>
dealt with according to the directions in the statute<lb></lb>
of the 12 ts. of the late Queen Ann for punishing of <lb></lb>
Vagrants Etc which said Statute your Comittee are of<lb></lb>
opinion ought to be Strictly and immediately put in<lb></lb>
Execution-and in order to render the Endeavours of </p>
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