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Taking into Consideration the said Act, and also an Act passed the last sessions
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of Parliament, entitled, An Act for granting to
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an additional
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Duty upon Spirituous Liquors, and upon Licences for retailing the same
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and being informed that many Persons propose to take Houses, not
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heretofore Publick Houses, and to use the same as Taverns, Victualling
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Houses, Inns, Coffee Houses, or Ale houses, and that others design to Convert
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their own private Houses into publick Houses for the same purpose,
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which, this Sessions apprehends, will defeat the good Ends proposed by the
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said Act, and that such Increase of Publick Houses will manifestly tend
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to the Detriment of the Health and Morals of
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the Common
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people, which
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are greatly debauched by the numbers of Publick Houses now every year
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Licensed and which are for more than sufficient to answer any necessary
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End or Purpose, an of opinion and do recommend it to the
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Justices of peace
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for this County when they meet at then several and respective Divisions,
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not to licence any House which hath not been heretofore a Tavern Victualling
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House, Inn, Coffee House
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or Alehouse, or which, if heretofore a Publick
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House, has not been so within the space of three years last past, or
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which hath been Connected into a private House since the same was
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a publick one. It is also further ordered by this Court that Copies
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hereof be sent to the Vestry Clerk of each parish, in every Division of
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this County, to be Communicated to the
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of each
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Division when they next meet for licensing. And to the End that all
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persons may have timely notice of this recommendatory Order,
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this session is of opinion, that the same be published in one or more
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of the Daily Papers.
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By adjornment on Thursday the
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fourth day of July 1751.
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Vagabonds.
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Whereas by an order made by the Court of General Quarter session of
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the peace holden at
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in
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St. John Street
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in and for this County
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of
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Middlesex
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by adjornment on Thursday the Eighteenth day of
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January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
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forty nine and in the twenty third year of his present Majestys reign
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It was (amongst other things therein mentioned) Recommended by
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the Court to the respective
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of this County,
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whenever any Rogues and Vagabonds are brought before them
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in order to be passed or conveyed away to the place of their
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legal settlement, that they strictly comply with the directions
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