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Duplicates of the Passes and Examinations takes out the Sting of the Sentence and
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upon Incorrigible Rogues, a Resolution of this Court should be conveyed
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to the acting Magistrates that for the future it will be required of them to transmit
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to Sessions such Duplicates, not only to serve as Records as the Law requires, but
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as proper Vouchers for the Expence the County is put to by their Orders and
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Certificates.
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Your Committee are of Opinion that for want of some Method to defect such Vagrants
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as should presume to return after being passed as the Law prescribes this County has
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been put to repeated Expences and considering the Extent of the Town and the
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of the Magistrates acting at least in parochial Affairs the Imposition is easy and
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the Detection very difficult, to prevent which your Committee recommend that the
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of
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may be provided with a Book made Alphabetical and that
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he be required to enter therein the Names of such Vagrants as shall be passed from
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thence together with such brief Description of their Age and Person as may
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enable him or his Agent to recollect any Person who has been before committed to
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his Care and passed and upon such Discovery it be an Order from this Court that
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such Person be not discharged or passed before the Sessions, notwithstanding the
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Warrant of Commitment, at which Sessions the keeper shall produce his
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, and the Record being with the Court, the Conviction will be rendered
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certain and easy And that a Reward at the Discretion of the Court should be paid
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the Keeper of
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for every Person by him so detected and proved an
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incorrigible Rogue.
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Your Committee are of Opinion that the knowledge of the large Sums gained by
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the Constables out of the Rates allowed by Sessions for conveying Vagabonds may
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be applied to the benefit of the County, the effectual conveying and delivery of such
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Vagabonds being the sole Object of the Law and the cheapest manner of doing it
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is left to the Discretion of the Court, and as the method of conveying by Stage Waggons
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or returning Carriages is to all intents and purposes as effectual as Carts or Horses
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which are generally appointed by the Justice, if it can be done by means of
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returning Carriages, with less than half the Charge the County certainly ought to
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avail itself of this Saving and not suffer the Constable to raise a kind of
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Yearly Salary at the Expence of the publick. And your Committee are of Opinion
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that if a proper Person was appointed by the Court for this purpose of conveying
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Vagrants and if Vagabounds apprehended in this Town and adjoining Villages were
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committed to
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(as by far the greatest part of the Expence to this County
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arises from the Beggars apprehended in this Town and Villages adjacent) such
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Vagabonds might under the Care of such Person once a Week or aftner if need
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were to be conveyed from thence by the means of Stage Waggons Etc to the
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great Saving of the publick money, but if this should not be thought a proper
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method your Committee are of Opinion that the passing of Vagrants might be
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contracted for by the keeper of
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under such Regulations as may be
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directed by this Court so as to make it an Object worthy his Consideration and the
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County may be greatly benefitted.
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