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