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<p n="1005">but that the Vagabonds were conveyed, and the Passes delivered prior to the<lb></lb>
making out such Orders, and the Committee considering the large<lb></lb>
Temptation (the least of the Orders being ten Shillings) are of Opinion that<lb></lb>
such Practices may subject this County to most gross Impositions; for by a<lb></lb>
Collusion between the Constable who delivers, and him that receives Vagrants<lb></lb>
the Expence to the County may be carried to dangerous Lengths, as the Passes<lb></lb>
themselves are the only Check to Impositions. That they are obliged to<lb></lb>
observe, that some of the Orders which have been produced before them<lb></lb>
are sd defective in Form, that your Committee are not able to judge whether<lb></lb>
the Sums upon such Orders are what ought to be charged upon the County<lb></lb>
as they do not mention the Places such Vagabonds were conveyed from<lb></lb>
others for paying the Reward to the Apprehenders of Vagabonds are not<lb></lb>
under Hand and Seal, as by the Statute directed, neither has that part<lb></lb>
of the Act of Parliament which requires that Duplicates of the Passes and<lb></lb>
Examinations be returned to Sessions, been in general observed and complied<lb></lb>
with That they find 711 Orders for passing Vagabonds less the last then the<lb></lb>
proceeding year which they apprehend may justly be ascribed to the sd Order<lb></lb>
of Sessions having put an effectual Stop to the granting Vagrant Passes for<lb></lb>
Casual Poor, where one Act of Vagrancy had been committed, That upon inspecting<lb></lb>
the Orders for Rewards to the Apprehenders of Vagabonds they find large Sums of<lb></lb>
the County Money paid to Beadles on that county That they are of Opinion<lb></lb>
that the apprehending Beggars, being the imediate Duty and Business of the<lb></lb>
Beadles of the several Parishes for which they are paid Salaries raised upon the<lb></lb>
Public, therefore the County Money ought not to be disposed of to such Beadles on<lb></lb>
Account of their apprehending Beggars, as it seems very unreasonable that the<lb></lb>
Public should be twice charged on that Account. The Difference between the<lb></lb>
Orders for paying Rewards for apprehending Vagabonds for the years proceeding<lb></lb>
the said order of Sessions, and the year the said order took place, is in Favour of<lb></lb>
the last year £178..2s..6d which they think may also be justly ascribed to the<lb></lb>
Cautions given in this Respect in the said order of Sessions; and this saving<lb></lb>
as hath been observed would have been more considerable had every Magistrates<lb></lb>
paid that Deference to those Cautions which the Justices of the County, and<lb></lb>
Decency to the Sessions demanded; And they are of Opinion, that if any<lb></lb>
Magistrate will take Advantage of the Power given him by the Statute of the<lb></lb>
17th. of the King to the Injury of the County, it ought to be demanded of him to<lb></lb>
show that such Vagabonds were death with as the said Statute directs; And<lb></lb>
that Duplicates of the Passes ad Examinations of such Vagabonds on whose<lb></lb>
Account such orders are issued, are regularly returned to Sessions, as proper<lb></lb>
Vouchers for such Money. By which Means also in corrigible Rogars and<lb></lb>
be more easily consr<obscured></obscured>
; because when such Duplicates are regularly returned</p>
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