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"and is likewise one great cause of the frequency of Street
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"robberys and other felonys, and that it did not appeare
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"to the Committee that the Laws now in being are
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effectual or Sufficient to prevent or remedy Such
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mischeif,
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The Committee likewise as well from the notoriety of the
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fact as from their observations upon the returns before
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menconed came to the following Resolucon (vizt.)
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"That It appeared to the Committee that the extravagant
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"Multitude of Geneva Shops within the Bills of Mortality &
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"parts adjacent is one great cause of the increase of Street
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"Robbers and other Felons,
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And the Committee upon observeing in Some of the Said
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Returns the State of the Nightly Watch kept in the Severall
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Divisions particularly in the
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Holborn
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as it Stands now divided from the new
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and the Liberty of
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and Ely Rents (which therefore may Serve to Shew how
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it is maintained in other parts) Saw therein with the
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utmost concern one great rise of the present complaints,
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and the Committee prayed leave for a Specimen to
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lay before us a Short State of the matter in the said parish
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as it was reported by the Justices acting therein to Stand
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on the 30th. of October last
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The watch there is (vizt.)
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Watchmen
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of which two are Beadles
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and 2 more always attend the
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at the Watch house, These
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have but £9. P Ann each and come
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but at 11 and go off at 5 in the morning
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And the Committee could not but agree with the Justices of
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that Division in their opinion formed upon inspecting
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the respective books of colleccons for the payment of the
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