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such Vagabond is taken sick and left
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As it was plainly the Intention of the Act to lay the whole Charge of conveying Vagrants Etc upon
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the County, and it speaks expressely of maintaining them in the way I think the Parish in which
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a Vagrant Etc is taken sick upon the Road ought not to be burthened with the Expence but the
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same ought to be born out of the County Rate.
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Whether the Justices in their General or Quarter Sessions can make any Order upon the Churchwardens
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or Overseers of the Poor of any Parish in such case to repay the Constable (should you be of Opinion the
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same ought to be paid by the Parish in the Case above mentioned) on the Complaint of the Constable and
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his Application to the Sessions, and should the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor refuse to obey
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such Order of the Sessions, what Power has the Sessions to enforce such Order
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This is a Case not particularly foreseen and provided for by the Act so as to be remedied by a
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new Certificate and increase of Allowance by the Justice or Justices who signed the Pass
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and Certificate with which the Vagrant Etc was sent away, and consequently the
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accidental Increase of Expence will not be demandable by the Petty Constable or Parish
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Officer of the High Constable and by him of the Treasurer, But upon considering the
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Vagrant Act throughout and the Statute 12th. George 2d. for County Rates I think there is
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a Sufficient Power in the Justices at Sessions to grant the proper relief in this Case, which is
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by making a particular Order upon the Application of the Petty Constable or Parish
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for the Treasurer of the County to reimburse him the Additional Expence and
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permitting him to charge the same in his General Account declaring it shall be
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allowed on passing the same.
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J: Strange
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29th. March 1749
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