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<p n="1001">An Abstract of which Account is as follows<lb></lb>
1240- Orders of Conveying£325..19s..0d<lb></lb>
131 Orders for Rewards£67..17s..6d<lb></lb>
The Contract£120..-..-<lb></lb>
Extra Maintenance£40..-..-<lb></lb>
£553..16s..6d</p>
<p n="1002">Of the above Sum £149..13..0 was paid contrary to the Order of Sessions.<lb></lb>
General State of the Account<lb></lb>
Anno 1757 Paid£924..11s..9d<lb></lb>
1758£553..16s..6d<lb></lb>
£370..15s..3d</p>
<p n="1003">The Difference in the two Years is is Favour of the Order of Sessions<lb></lb>
£370..15..3 but if the Money be taken off which has been Ordered by<lb></lb>
some Magistrates contrary to the Order of Sessions, amounting in the<lb></lb>
whole to £149..13s the Decrease of the Expence could then have been upwds.<lb></lb>
of £500. That they also observed that it the Recommendatory Order of<lb></lb>
July 1757 had been attended to by the Magistrates in General, as, by<lb></lb>
referring to the General Account, it will appear to have been by being<lb></lb>
of the Justices, proportioning the sums to the Distance of Place<lb></lb>
and Trouble the Apprehander might have, a much greater Saving<lb></lb>
would have been made upon that Article.</p>
<p n="1004">That they observed that the Constables of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo1428">Glass House Yard Liberty</rs>
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to whom the Vagabonds from the East and London and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo1429">Southwark</rs>
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are,<lb></lb>
generally delivered in their Passage to the North, as their Premiary<lb></lb>
Interest was greatly affected by the Contract for passing Vagabonds, have<lb></lb>
tried every Effort in their Power, to defeat the said Contract, and when they<lb></lb>
found themselves unable to get any Magistrate in Town to sign Orders for<lb></lb>
Conveying contrary to the Order of Sessions; the said Constables have<lb></lb>
Artfully prevailed upon a Magistrate at upwards of Ten Miles Distant<lb></lb>
to sign such Orders to a large Amount, and upon inspecting the said<lb></lb>
Orders, it appears that the said Constables did not deliver such Vagabonds<lb></lb>
themselves, but employed One <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n1004-1">Matthew Deane</rs>
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to deliver them and<lb></lb>
swear to their Delivery, although the Money was received by the said<lb></lb>
Constables as appears by the Receipts upon the Back of the respive Orders<lb></lb>
What Profit has accrued to the said Constables from this Practice, may be<lb></lb>
judged by the Affidavit of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n1004-2">Arthur Lander</rs>
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: And also from the Confession<lb></lb>
of the said Constables; by which it appears that they have made a Sine Cure<lb></lb>
of upwards of £50 P Annum And that the sd Commee are of Opinion, the<lb></lb>
not with standing such Orders, do Recite a pass granted by the Justices<lb></lb>
there in mentioned no such pass was produced to the said Magistrate</p>
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