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<p n="707">Duplicates of the Passes and Examinations takes out the Sting of the Sentence and<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55603_occ926">Punishment</rs>
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upon Incorrigible Rogues, a Resolution of this Court should be conveyed<lb></lb>
to the acting Magistrates that for the future it will be required of them to transmit<lb></lb>
to Sessions such Duplicates, not only to serve as Records as the Law requires, but<lb></lb>
as proper Vouchers for the Expence the County is put to by their Orders and<lb></lb>
Certificates.</p>
<p n="708">Your Committee are of Opinion that for want of some Method to defect such Vagrants<lb></lb>
as should presume to return after being passed as the Law prescribes this County has<lb></lb>
been put to repeated Expences and considering the Extent of the Town and the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55603_occ927">Number</rs>
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of the Magistrates acting at least in parochial Affairs the Imposition is easy and<lb></lb>
the Detection very difficult, to prevent which your Committee recommend that the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55603_occ928">Keeper</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo1134">Bridewell</rs>
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may be provided with a Book made Alphabetical and that<lb></lb>
he be required to enter therein the Names of such Vagrants as shall be passed from<lb></lb>
thence together with such brief Description of their Age and Person as may<lb></lb>
enable him or his Agent to recollect any Person who has been before committed to<lb></lb>
his Care and passed and upon such Discovery it be an Order from this Court that<lb></lb>
such Person be not discharged or passed before the Sessions, notwithstanding the<lb></lb>
Warrant of Commitment, at which Sessions the keeper shall produce his<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55603_occ929">Prisoner</rs>
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, and the Record being with the Court, the Conviction will be rendered<lb></lb>
certain and easy And that a Reward at the Discretion of the Court should be paid<lb></lb>
the Keeper of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo1135">Bridewell</rs>
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for every Person by him so detected and proved an<lb></lb>
incorrigible Rogue.</p>
<p n="709">Your Committee are of Opinion that the knowledge of the large Sums gained by<lb></lb>
the Constables out of the Rates allowed by Sessions for conveying Vagabonds may<lb></lb>
be applied to the benefit of the County, the effectual conveying and delivery of such<lb></lb>
Vagabonds being the sole Object of the Law and the cheapest manner of doing it<lb></lb>
is left to the Discretion of the Court, and as the method of conveying by Stage Waggons<lb></lb>
or returning Carriages is to all intents and purposes as effectual as Carts or Horses <lb></lb>
which are generally appointed by the Justice, if it can be done by means of<lb></lb>
returning Carriages, with less than half the Charge the County certainly ought to<lb></lb>
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avail itself of this Saving and not suffer the Constable to raise a kind of<lb></lb>
Yearly Salary at the Expence of the publick. And your Committee are of Opinion<lb></lb>
that if a proper Person was appointed by the Court for this purpose of conveying<lb></lb>
Vagrants and if Vagabounds apprehended in this Town and adjoining Villages were<lb></lb>
committed to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo1136">Bridewell</rs>
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(as by far the greatest part of the Expence to this County<lb></lb>
arises from the Beggars apprehended in this Town and Villages adjacent) such<lb></lb>
Vagabonds might under the Care of such Person once a Week or aftner if need<lb></lb>
were to be conveyed from thence by the means of Stage Waggons Etc to the<lb></lb>
great Saving of the publick money, but if this should not be thought a proper<lb></lb>
method your Committee are of Opinion that the passing of Vagrants might be<lb></lb>
contracted for by the keeper of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo1137">Bridewell</rs>
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under such Regulations as may be<lb></lb>
directed by this Court so as to make it an Object worthy his Consideration and the<lb></lb>
County may be greatly benefitted.</p>
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