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February 1800.
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By adjournment same Day
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Ordered That the sum of Thirty Pounds
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being the usual Annual Allowance made to John
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Martin for his Attendance as Session Beadle be paid
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to him and that the
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Clerk of the peace
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do Issue an Order.
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upon the Treasurer of this County for the payment
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thereof
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By adjournment same Day.
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A Petition of Henry Bothwell Contractor
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for Conveying Vagrants in thro'. and out of this
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County being laid before this Court and Read as
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follows Vizt..
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"To the Honorable the Magistrates for the County
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of
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Middlesex
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"The humble Petition of
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Henry Bothwell
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appointed by your Worships to receive and Convey
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Vagrants into and through the County of Middx
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"Your humble Petitioner hopes your Worships
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will not be offended at his requesting you to take
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into your Consideration the very high price of
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provisions of every sort and the great and unex-
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-pected increase of the price thereof both for suste-
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-nance of Vagrants delivered to him as well as
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that of Horse provisions which Constitutes of a
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very large part of the Expence your Petitioner
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being obliged to keep two and frequently Three
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Horses employed in Conveying Vagrants in the
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several directions thro' the County their passes
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require; that the Expence of supporting them is
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double what it was at the time Your Petitioner
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was first honored with Your Worships appointm-
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as also the Expence of keeping the necessary
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attendants to assist him in the Execution of the
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Duties of his Office by which your Petitioner is
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and for some time past has been a Considerable
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loser by his Contract, but in the hope that the
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