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the same Division and Hundred and examine what Sum or Sums
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of Money have been paid to him by any & what Churchwarden
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or Churchwardens of any & what parishes or places within his
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& unpaid upon the said Rate from the Churchwarden or
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Churchwardens of any and what parishes or places within
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such District and whom by Name and if such Churchwarden
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or Churchwardens have received the same And to Order and
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direct such High Constable forthwith to use all legal method
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for obtaining the said Arrears and for his payment of what
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Moneys he hath or shall receive into the hands of the said
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produce the precept to him transmitted by the said Trearer
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for raiseing the said Moneys before the said Justices at
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such times and places as they shall in that behalf appoint
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for their better discovery of what Moneys have been received
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and of what remains in Arrear
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Parliament Assembled.
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The Humble petition of his Majestys Justices
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of the peace for the County of
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in their
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General Quarter Sessions Assembled.
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his Majestys Justices
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of the peace for the County
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of Great Britain assembled
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That Your petitioners think it their Duty to represent to this
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Honourable House the very great uncertainty & Defect of the
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Laws relating to the poor of this Kingdom And the Difficulties
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attending the Execution of them, particularly with regard to the
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Settlement & Removall of the poor, & passing of Vagrants.
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That your petitioners always apprehended it to be the
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in the many Statutes made for
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the Relief of the poor And Setling or passing of them that these
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several
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Statutes were most proper to be executed. by the
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Justices Residing in the several parishes, And this the rather
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in regard the Act of the 43d. of
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And most
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of the Subsequent Acts relating to the poor expressly direct
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That the powers thereby given to the Justices should be
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Executed by such of them who dwell in or near the respective
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parishes.
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Your petitioners also apprehend this to have been
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the Constant practice throughout the Kingdom ever since
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the makeing of those Laws.
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