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