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<p n="778">from the great Expence arising from the unlimited uncontrouled wandering of the<lb></lb>
Vagabond Poor: And your Committee are of Opinion that the Season of the year<lb></lb>
proper to enforce the Execution of this Act is now coming on as those Vagrants who <lb></lb>
are able to work will in the Fields find ready Imployment.</p>
<p n="779">As the Publication of the Clauses of so much of the Vagrant Act as relates to<lb></lb>
the apprehending Beggars by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London and their<lb></lb>
Resolution to put the said Act into strict Execution has produced the desired<lb></lb>
Effect by clearing the Streets of that Metropolis from Beggars, your Committee<lb></lb>
are of Opinion that this Court adopting the same Plan with such Additions and<lb></lb>
Alterations as shall by them be thought proper way in a great Measure produce<lb></lb>
the like Effect in this County; but your Committee apprehand that if any part of<lb></lb>
the Bills of Mortality be left an Asylum for the Retreat of Beggars the <lb></lb>
Nusance and the Charge arising to this County from it will in a Degree<lb></lb>
continue as such Beggars will be always ready to make Excursions from <lb></lb>
their Harbour; your Committee therefore think that it might probably give a <lb></lb>
finishing Stroke to this Complaint if the Magistrates of the County of<lb></lb>
Surry would concur in taking the like Measures and publishing the like<lb></lb>
Resolutions with the Lord Mayor and this Court especially in respect to<lb></lb>
the Town of Lambeth and Borough of Southwark: And your Committee<lb></lb>
apprehend it would be of Service to the Publick to ask such Concurrence.<lb></lb>
your Committee being also convinced that most of the Beggars in the <lb></lb>
Kingdom do at times resort to this Metropolis, being led by various<lb></lb>
Motives, some through Curiosity, others by hope of Gain; and that they<lb></lb>
are well acquainted that upon being apprehended they will be provided for in their<lb></lb>
return Home by a Pass without Punishment; are of Opinion that the Resolutions <lb></lb>
this Court may come to in this respect should not only be affixed up in proper Places<lb></lb>
about the several Parishes in this Town and published in the Daily Papers but <lb></lb>
also that those Resolutions should be affixed up in the Towns and Villages in this<lb></lb>
County near the several Reads leading to London and published in such Evening <lb></lb>
Papers as may best circulate the Knowledge of such Resolutions throughout<lb></lb>
the Kingdom whereby Vagabonds in the distant Countries being informed that<lb></lb>
certain Punishment and as Gain will attend their Peregrination they may be<lb></lb>
deterred from the base Attempt of coming here.</p>
<p n="780">But your Committee apprehend that how judicious soever the Construction of any<lb></lb>
Plan to exterminate this almost inveterate Evil may be, and however desirous and <lb></lb>
vigilant the Magistrates may likewise be in their several Districts to carry the <lb></lb>
Orders and Resolution of this Court into Execution, it is certain that without an</p>
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