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An Abstract of which Account is as follows
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1240- Orders of Conveying£325..19s..0d
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131 Orders for Rewards£67..17s..6d
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The Contract£120..-..-
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Extra Maintenance£40..-..-
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£553..16s..6d
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Of the above Sum £149..13..0 was paid contrary to the Order of Sessions.
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General State of the Account
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Anno 1757 Paid£924..11s..9d
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1758£553..16s..6d
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£370..15s..3d
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The Difference in the two Years is is Favour of the Order of Sessions
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£370..15..3 but if the Money be taken off which has been Ordered by
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some Magistrates contrary to the Order of Sessions, amounting in the
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whole to £149..13s the Decrease of the Expence could then have been upwds.
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of £500. That they also observed that it the Recommendatory Order of
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July 1757 had been attended to by the Magistrates in General, as, by
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referring to the General Account, it will appear to have been by being
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of the Justices, proportioning the sums to the Distance of Place
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and Trouble the Apprehander might have, a much greater Saving
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would have been made upon that Article.
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That they observed that the Constables of
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Glass House Yard Liberty
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to whom the Vagabonds from the East and London and
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Southwark
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are,
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generally delivered in their Passage to the North, as their Premiary
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Interest was greatly affected by the Contract for passing Vagabonds, have
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tried every Effort in their Power, to defeat the said Contract, and when they
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found themselves unable to get any Magistrate in Town to sign Orders for
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Conveying contrary to the Order of Sessions; the said Constables have
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Artfully prevailed upon a Magistrate at upwards of Ten Miles Distant
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to sign such Orders to a large Amount, and upon inspecting the said
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Orders, it appears that the said Constables did not deliver such Vagabonds
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themselves, but employed One
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Matthew Deane
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to deliver them and
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swear to their Delivery, although the Money was received by the said
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Constables as appears by the Receipts upon the Back of the respive Orders
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What Profit has accrued to the said Constables from this Practice, may be
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judged by the Affidavit of
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Arthur Lander
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: And also from the Confession
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of the said Constables; by which it appears that they have made a Sine Cure
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of upwards of £50 P Annum And that the sd Commee are of Opinion, the
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not with standing such Orders, do Recite a pass granted by the Justices
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there in mentioned no such pass was produced to the said Magistrate
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