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Pass, conveyed or carried alone, or together at one Time, or
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Turn, by Cart or Horse Carriage, the Rate of Six pence per
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Mile, and no more, and for passing or conveying of Such
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person or persons on Foot, under and less than Six pence
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per Mile, according to the Discretion of the respective Justices
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of the peace for this County, who Shall Sign any Such
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passes or Certificates of Allowance.
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But if any of the
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of this County Shall
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think fit, and See good Cause to allow and order more or
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greater Rates for the Maintaining, Conveying and Carrying
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of any Such Person or Persons Sickness or Impotency, or
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by occasion of any other extraordinary Accident That then
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So much of the Said greater Rates as Shall exceed the Rates
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hereby before ascertained, Shall not be paid unless the Same
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be first communicated and certified to the Justices of the
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Peace of
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this County, at their General or Quarter Session,
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and be approved and allowed of by the Said Court of Session,
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And this Court do the farther Order, that this Order be forthwith
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printed, and that the Charge of Such Printing be paid by
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the
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of this County, and be allowed to him in his
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Account, and that printed Copies of this Order, be transmitted
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to the
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, and the
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High Constables
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By Adjornmt. on Thursday the
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10th, day of July 1740
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Order for Settleing on the
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County day of October Session
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1740 the rates or allowances
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for the maintaining and
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passing of Rogues & Vagabonds
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and to consider if proper to
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augment the former
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allowances}
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Whereas an Order hath been this day made by this Court in
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pursuance of the Statute made in the thirteenth year of the
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reign of our
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George the Second for amending
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and enforcing the Laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, and
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other idle and disorderly persons, and for reducing the
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Same into one Act of Parliament, by which Order the
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rates or allowances, for maintaining and passing of
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Rogues, Vagabonds or incorrigible Rogues are the Same
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as were formerly Settled by this Court for the maintaining
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& passing of Vagrants pursuant to a former Act of
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Parliament made in the twelfth year of the late
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Queen Ann, and are So to continue & remain untill the
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next General Quarter Session of the peace for this County
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And It having been alledged by Several Justices of the peace
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for this County that the Said Rates or allowances formerly
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Settled & Specifyed in the Said Order this day made are
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too Small, and that it would be very proper & reasonable
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to augment the Same, It is Ordered by this Court that
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