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<p n="687">By adjournment on Thursday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55603_date115">twenty first day of April 1757</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="688"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order desiring Hammond<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo1126">Crosse</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55603_occ922">Esqr</rs>
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. to provide twelve<lb></lb>
Blocks & twelve Beatles for<lb></lb>
the House of Correction at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo1127">Clerkenwell</rs>
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.</note>
It is Ordered by this Court that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55603_n688-1">Hammond Crosse</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55603_occ923">Esqr</rs>
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. one of his Majestys<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55603_occ924">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for this County be and he is hereby desired to provide<lb></lb>
Twelve Blocks and Twelve Beatles for the Use of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo1128">House of Correction</rs>
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<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo1129">Clerkenwell</rs>
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in this County and to report the Charge and Expence of the<lb></lb>
same to the Court of the next General Session of the Peace to be holden for<lb></lb>
the said County on the County day of the same Session</p>
<p n="689">By adjournment on Thursday the twenty first day of April 1757.</p>
<p n="690"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order concerning the locking<lb></lb>
up the Doors of the Great<lb></lb>
Room at Hicks Hall on<lb></lb>
every County day and<lb></lb>
delivering the Keys to this<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55603_occ925">Chairman</rs>
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.</note>
Whereas it formerly having been the Custom on the County day of every General<lb></lb>
Quarter and General Sessions of the Peace holden for this County during the time that<lb></lb>
the County Business was transacting in the Great Room at Hicks Hall the Doors of the<lb></lb>
said Room used to be locked as seen as Dinner was over and the Servants and <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
all discharged and the Keys thereof delivered to the Chairman of this Court<lb></lb>
to be by him kept to the intent that no Justice of the Peace should be permitted to<lb></lb>
depart before such Business was ended and finished unless upon special Motion first<lb></lb>
made for that purpose This Court approving of the said Custom doth Order that the<lb></lb>
like Custom be observed for the future.</p>
<p n="691"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Report of the Committee<lb></lb>
concerning the Expence<lb></lb>
arising to the County of<lb></lb>
Middx from the apprehending<lb></lb>
and passing Vagrants Etc.</note>
Complaint being made to this Court of the growing Expence arising to this<lb></lb>
County from the Apprehending and passing Vagrants and the Frauds committed<lb></lb>
by the Officers conveying such Vagrants Etc</p>
<p n="692">A Committee was appointed to consider from what Causes such extraordinary<lb></lb>
Expence arises and Frauds are committed and also to consider of some<lb></lb>
Method to ease the County and to Prevent such Impositions for the future<lb></lb>
and to report their Opinion upon the said premisess</p>
<p n="693">Your Committee are of Opinion that the great Expence complained of and the Frauds<lb></lb>
committed have their rise from the following Causes.</p>
<p n="694"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1st.</note>
That one Cause of this Expence is the great Relaxation in the executing the Statute<lb></lb>
of the 17th. of his present Majesty called the Vagrant Act which is evidently<lb></lb>
proved from the Swarms of Beggars infesting the Streets, some Produced by real<lb></lb>
Distress, and others who by artfull Disguises of Wretchedness, contrive to support<lb></lb>
themselves and Familys in Idleness and intail a Race of Rogues and Vagabonds<lb></lb>
upon posterity.</p>
<p n="695"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">2d.</note>
That when Vagabonds are apprehended and brought before the Magistrates, the<lb></lb>
Punishment prescribed by the said Act has been in too many Instances dispensed <lb></lb>
with and this We apprehend is not only a great Incouragement to Beggars but<lb></lb>
also renders the Passes in themselves illegal and such Magistrates private Fortunes<lb></lb>
liable to all the Charge incurred from such Passes</p>
<p n="696"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">3d.</note>
That the Magistrates in general not returning the Duplicates of the Vagrant<lb></lb>
Passes and Examinations to the next Sessions as directed by the said Act there to be<lb></lb>
kept as Records renders the Clause of the said Act for the punishment of</p>
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