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Searchers, and Such especially, who have been formerly
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concerned in making Bricks and Tyles, or by other means
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may be presumed to understand the Business, tho' they do
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not now follow the Imployment. And that the Searchers
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Should be appointed, not as they are at present for the
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whole County, & with liberty to all of them to Range over
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itt, but that this County Should for this purpose be
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divided into the Four following Districts Vizt.
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& Holborn Divisions, to be one District
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Finsbury
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and Tower Divisions, to be another
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Edmunton and Gore Divisions, to be a Third
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Brentford
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& Uxbridge Divisions to the Fourth
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And that Four Searchers and noe more be appointed for
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each of these Districts, and to Continue for one year and no
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longer, unless this Court Shall think fitt to rechuse or Continue
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them, in Consideration of their good Service, And that these
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Searchers Doe give to this Court an Account of their proceedings
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in writing on the first Day of every Easter and every Octobe.
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Sessions, that the Court may be the better enabled to Judge
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of their behaviour, and to give them Such further Directions
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as Shall be necessary.
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Your Committee observing also, That notwithstanding the
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Penaltie of Twenty Shillings per Thousand and all the
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provisions in the present Lawes, The Generall Practice
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hath been and Still Continues, to make Bricks with
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Spanish, And being informed that Severall
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Brickmakers
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are now Carrying Spanish on their Lands to mix with
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their Brick earth for next Summers Worke, Wee thought
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it our Duty to inspect the Severall Acts of parliament
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relating to Brickmaking in Order to putt a Stop to Such
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irregular proceedings, But wee cannot find in any of
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these Statutes any power lodged in this Court or in any
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Justices of this County, or in the Searchers appointed by
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this Court, Sufficient to prevent of remedy these illegall
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practices, In the Statute of the Twelfth of King George
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the first there are large powers given to the Company
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of Bricklayers to fine and levy by distress twenty
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