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and proper to be pursued more effectually to Answer the
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Ends thereby proposes, Touching which matters, They
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to several particular Resolution which they Subumitt
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to the Judgment of this Court as follows (vizt.)
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In the first place Your Committee conceiving that
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nothing could prove move Effectual to Encourage all
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persons in the apprenhending and prosecuting of Street
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Robbers and other Felons and persons returning from
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Transportation, Than a prompt and easy payment
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of the several Rewards appointed By Act of Parliament
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and his Majestys Gracious proclamation for such
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persons who shall apprehend and prosecute such
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Offenders to Conviction, But having some general
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Information, that the same or even a very in considerable
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part thereof was not to be obtained, without so much
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difficulty expence and loss of time as had in some
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particular Instances, proved a Ruin instead of an
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Encouragement to some prosecutors and their
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Familys, proceeded to make a more particular Enquiry
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into the usual and regular steps taken and to be
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taken by all persons so Entituled for the obtaining
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the said Rewards, and upon a thorough Information
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thereof did find to their great surprise and Concern That
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even Supposing a poor prosecutor not to be Extraordinarily
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delayed or out of
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Course, and that he
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obtains his Meny at last without any Extortious deductions
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whatsoever, Yet the Known and Established Method
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of passing thro so great a number of Offices, and
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References Cast again from one to to ther before the
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proclamation Reward can be obtained, and the Excessive
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and unreasonable delays and hardships Consequent
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thereupon (all which fully appeared to your Committee
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were and are highly discouraging to such poor prosecutors
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as are for the most part, the persons Entitled to those Rewards,
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Wherefore the Committee upon this head Unanimously
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came to the following Resolutions (vizt.)
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" That it appears to this Committee That one great Cause
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" of the increase and frequency of Street Robbers, and other
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