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<p n="815">and Settle to Work Rogues and Vagabonds that Shall be disposed to Work there<lb></lb>
to be holden to work by the Oversight of the Overseers to get their living<lb></lb>
and to be Sustained only upon their own Labour and Travel</p>
<p n="816">Also a Tax for Prisoners in Common Goals is Enacted</p>
<p n="817">18th. Eliz. C. 3. S. 5. Ordains that within every County there Shall be one two<lb></lb>
or more abiding houses or Places convenient in Some Market Town Esq by Purchase<lb></lb>
Lease Building or otherwise by the appointment and Order of the Justices or more<lb></lb>
part of them in their Said General session (of the Inhabitants to be Taxed Etc) Shall<lb></lb>
be Provided and called the House or Houses of Correction and also Stock and Store of<lb></lb>
Implements to be in like Sort Provided for Setting at Work and Punishing not<lb></lb>
only of these which by the Collectors and Governours of the Poor for causes<lb></lb>
aforesaid shall be brought but also Etc [Vagabounds]</p>
<p n="818">S. 6. The <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50527_occ281">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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or the more Part of them in their General Session<lb></lb>
Shall and may appoint from time to times persons which Shall be overseers of every<lb></lb>
Such House of Correction which Said Persons Shall be called the Censors or Wardens<lb></lb>
of the Houses of Correction and Shall have the Rule Government and Order of<lb></lb>
Such Houses of Correction according to Such Order as by the Justices of Shall be<lb></lb>
Prescribed refusing to be <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50527_occ282">Governor of the Poor</rs>
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or Censor and Warden or Collection<lb></lb>
for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo637">house of Correction</rs>
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to For feit £5</p>
<p n="819">S. 7 Collectors Etc to accompt and refusing to be Committed to the Houal Goal<lb></lb>
till account upon the making of which account Such Persons as have the<lb></lb>
appointment of Said Collectors and Governors of the Poor Cencers Wardens and-<lb></lb>
Collectors of the Houses of Correction to allow as well such Reasonable allowances<lb></lb>
for Money employed or disbursed in the Exection of the said several Offices<lb></lb>
As also Such Reasonable Fees and Wages for their Pains taken in that<lb></lb>
behalf as shall be thought convenient and reasonable</p>
<p n="820">The Foregoing Statues were repecled by the Following one</p>
<p n="821">39 Eliz. 4. An Act for Punishing Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Begars<lb></lb>
Whereby tis Enacted That It shall be lawfull for the Justices in Quarter Sessions<lb></lb>
or the more Part of them to Set down Orders to Erect one or more houses of<lb></lb>
Correction for doing thereof and providing of Stocks of Money and other things<lb></lb>
necessary and for raising and governing the Same and for Correction and<lb></lb>
Punishment of offenders Such Orders as Etc Shall be of Force</p>
<p n="822">2d. 5 Describes Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars<lb></lb>
3d. & 4. The manner of Apprchending and Punishing</p>
<p n="823">There are several other Clauses not material and a Commission Authorized<lb></lb>
as in that of 43d Eliz expounded in 2d. Just 707</p>
<p n="824">By 7 Ind. Cap. 4. S. 1. Whereas heretofore divers good and necessary<lb></lb>
Laws and Statutes have been made and Provided for the Correction of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo638">house of<lb></lb>
Correction</rs>
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for the Surpressing and Punishing of Rouges Vagabonds or other Idle</p>
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