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That this pernicious Liquor is now Sold not only at
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by Distillers & Geneva Shops but by many other persons of
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Inferior Trades, by which Means
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& Servants are drawn in to taste and by degrees to like
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approve and immoderately to drink thereof.
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That your petitioners apprehend the publick
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Wellfare and Safety as well as the Trade of the Nation
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will be greatly affected by it; as this practice is dan-
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-gerous and Mischievous to the Health and Strength
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Peace and Morals and tends greatly to diminish the
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Labour & Industry of his Majestie's Subjects.
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Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray
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this Honourable House will take the Premisses
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into their Serious Considerations & will apply
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such Remedy as they in their great Wisdom
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shall Judge most proper.
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And your Petitioners as in Duty
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bound Shall ever Pray.
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By Adjornment on Thursday
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15th day of January
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1735
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tt Order of
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Refference to the
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Commee. of Accounts to
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Examin & Certify
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what sum of Money
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is due to Mr. Robt.
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Chester Constable in
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the Parish of Ken-
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-Sington for his trouble
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& expences in
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passing & releiving
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of Vagrants.}
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Upon the humble petition of
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Robert Chester
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in the
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in this County exhibited
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unto this Court Setting forth that he hath Expended about
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the Sum of four pounds & five Shillings in passing
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Vagrants from the officess of the City & Liberty of
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Westminster
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through the said County as may appear
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by Certificates of allowance Signed by two of his Maties
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Justices of the Peace
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for the said County which Expences
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Still Remain unpaid to the Petr. And the Petr. praying
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that this Court will be pleased to Order that the Treasu-
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-rer of the said County may be pay to the Petr. his
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said Expences. It is Ordered by this Court That it
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be And it is hereby Recommended and Referred
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unto his Maties
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Justices of the peace
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for this County
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appointed to take the Accounts of the Treasurers of the
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Said County or any three or more of them to peruse
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and Inspect the said Certificates and to Inquire it the
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Vagrants therein mentioned were duly passed & to
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Examine if the Sums allowed to the Petr. by the said
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Certificates for such service are Just and Reasonable
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and
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