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predict' per Adjornament. die Martis Scilt' Undecimo die
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tia, nunc Regine & Angliae, Etc. Secundo.
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HER Majesties Justices of the Peace for this County now Assembled
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at this General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, holden for the Coun
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ty, do in pursuance of the late Statutes relating to the Punishing
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and Passing of Vagrants, hereby Order, Ascertain, and Set down,
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That the several Rates which hereby are, and shall be allowed by any Justice or
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Justices of the Peace for this County, to any Constable or other such Officer of
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this County, for maintaining and conveying and carrying of such Vagrants as
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shall be pasted or carried through their respective Divisions in this County, for
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this Year 1703. and until the End of the then next Quarter Sessions of the
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Peace to be held for this County after Easter next, shall be as followeth:
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Six Pence for each Vagrant Person for Four and twenty hours, and so af
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Rate for a longer or Shorter time: And for Conveying and Carrying
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Vagrant or Vagrants Names are contained in one Pass, conveyed
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alone or together, a
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or turn by Care or Horse-Carriage,
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re: And for conveying of such Vagrant
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or
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the respective Justic
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Passes, or Certificate
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allowance. But if any of the Justices ot
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of this County shall
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fit and fee good Cause to Allow and Order
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greater Rates for the maintaining, conveying, and carrying of any su
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grant or Vagrants to be conveyed and carried as aforesaid, by reason
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Vagrants Sickness or Impotency, or by occasion of any other Extraordinary
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Accident; that then so much of the said Greater Rates as shall exceed the Ra
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hereby before Ascertained, shall not be paid unless the same be first communi-
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cated and certified to the Justices of the Peace of this County, at the next Gene-
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ral or Quarter Sessions of the Peace held for this County, after the maintaining,
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conveying and carrying of such Vagrants, and shall be approved and allowed of
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by the said Court of Sessions. And this Court is of the Opinion, and doth de-
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clare that no Person or Persons whatsoever, except such as are Vagrants by Law,
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ought to be received, maintained, conveyed, and carried through this County
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by virtue of the said Acts of Parliament for passing of Vagrants as aforesaid,
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