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<p n="1838">Taking into Consideration the said Act, and also an Act passed the last sessions<lb></lb>
of Parliament, entitled, An Act for granting to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1838-1">his Majesty</rs>
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an additional<lb></lb>
Duty upon Spirituous Liquors, and upon Licences for retailing the same<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and being informed that many Persons propose to take Houses, not<lb></lb>
heretofore Publick Houses, and to use the same as Taverns, Victualling<lb></lb>
Houses, Inns, Coffee Houses, or Ale houses, and that others design to Convert<lb></lb>
their own private Houses into publick Houses for the same purpose,<lb></lb>
which, this Sessions apprehends, will defeat the good Ends proposed by the<lb></lb>
said Act, and that such Increase of Publick Houses will manifestly tend<lb></lb>
to the Detriment of the Health and Morals of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2714">the Common</rs>
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people, which<lb></lb>
are greatly debauched by the numbers of Publick Houses now every year<lb></lb>
Licensed and which are for more than sufficient to answer any necessary<lb></lb>
End or Purpose, an of opinion and do recommend it to the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ2192">Justices of peace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for this County when they meet at then several and respective Divisions,<lb></lb>
not to licence any House which hath not been heretofore a Tavern Victualling<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2715">House, Inn, Coffee House</rs>
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or Alehouse, or which, if heretofore a Publick<lb></lb>
House, has not been so within the space of three years last past, or<lb></lb>
which hath been Connected into a private House since the same was<lb></lb>
a publick one. It is also further ordered by this Court that Copies<lb></lb>
hereof be sent to the Vestry Clerk of each parish, in every Division of<lb></lb>
this County, to be Communicated to the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ2193">Justices of peace</rs>
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of each<lb></lb>
Division when they next meet for licensing. And to the End that all<lb></lb>
persons may have timely notice of this recommendatory Order,<lb></lb>
this session is of opinion, that the same be published in one or more<lb></lb>
of the Daily Papers.</p>
<p n="1839"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
By adjornment on Thursday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55602_date248">fourth day of July 1751.</rs>
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<p n="1840"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Vagabonds.</note>
Whereas by an order made by the Court of General Quarter session of<lb></lb>
the peace holden at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2716">Hicks hall</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2717">St. John Street</rs>
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in and for this County<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2718">Middlesex</rs>
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by adjornment on Thursday the Eighteenth day of<lb></lb>
January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and<lb></lb>
forty nine and in the twenty third year of his present Majestys reign<lb></lb>
It was (amongst other things therein mentioned) Recommended by<lb></lb>
the Court to the respective <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ2194">Justices of the peace</rs>
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of this County,<lb></lb>
whenever any Rogues and Vagabonds are brought before them<lb></lb>
in order to be passed or conveyed away to the place of their<lb></lb>
legal settlement, that they strictly comply with the directions</p>
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