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By adjournment on Thursday the
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twenty first day of April 1757
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Order desiring Hammond
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Crosse
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Esqr
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. to provide twelve
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Blocks & twelve Beatles for
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the House of Correction at
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Clerkenwell
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It is Ordered by this Court that
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Hammond Crosse
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. one of his Majestys
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Justices of the Peace
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for this County be and he is hereby desired to provide
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Twelve Blocks and Twelve Beatles for the Use of the
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House of Correction
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at
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in this County and to report the Charge and Expence of the
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same to the Court of the next General Session of the Peace to be holden for
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the said County on the County day of the same Session
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By adjournment on Thursday the twenty first day of April 1757.
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Order concerning the locking
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up the Doors of the Great
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Room at Hicks Hall on
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every County day and
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delivering the Keys to this
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Chairman
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Whereas it formerly having been the Custom on the County day of every General
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Quarter and General Sessions of the Peace holden for this County during the time that
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the County Business was transacting in the Great Room at Hicks Hall the Doors of the
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said Room used to be locked as seen as Dinner was over and the Servants and
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all discharged and the Keys thereof delivered to the Chairman of this Court
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to be by him kept to the intent that no Justice of the Peace should be permitted to
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depart before such Business was ended and finished unless upon special Motion first
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made for that purpose This Court approving of the said Custom doth Order that the
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like Custom be observed for the future.
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Report of the Committee
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concerning the Expence
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arising to the County of
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Middx from the apprehending
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and passing Vagrants Etc.
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Complaint being made to this Court of the growing Expence arising to this
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County from the Apprehending and passing Vagrants and the Frauds committed
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by the Officers conveying such Vagrants Etc
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A Committee was appointed to consider from what Causes such extraordinary
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Expence arises and Frauds are committed and also to consider of some
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Method to ease the County and to Prevent such Impositions for the future
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and to report their Opinion upon the said premisess
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Your Committee are of Opinion that the great Expence complained of and the Frauds
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committed have their rise from the following Causes.
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1st.
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That one Cause of this Expence is the great Relaxation in the executing the Statute
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of the 17th. of his present Majesty called the Vagrant Act which is evidently
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proved from the Swarms of Beggars infesting the Streets, some Produced by real
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Distress, and others who by artfull Disguises of Wretchedness, contrive to support
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themselves and Familys in Idleness and intail a Race of Rogues and Vagabonds
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upon posterity.
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2d.
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That when Vagabonds are apprehended and brought before the Magistrates, the
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Punishment prescribed by the said Act has been in too many Instances dispensed
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with and this We apprehend is not only a great Incouragement to Beggars but
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also renders the Passes in themselves illegal and such Magistrates private Fortunes
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liable to all the Charge incurred from such Passes
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3d.
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That the Magistrates in general not returning the Duplicates of the Vagrant
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Passes and Examinations to the next Sessions as directed by the said Act there to be
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kept as Records renders the Clause of the said Act for the punishment of
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