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<p n="939"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50645_geo775">Covent Garden</rs>
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had conformed themselves to the Desire of the Committee</p>
<p n="940">If further appeared to the Committee from the report of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50645_occ221">Deputy Clerk of<lb></lb>
the peace</rs>
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of this County who had been directed to make the proper search that very few<lb></lb>
Duplicates of Passes and examination of Vagrants have been transmitted to him and few<lb></lb>
if any according to direction contained in the Act of the 17th. Geo. 2d. and from the Account of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50645_occ222">Deputy<lb></lb>
Clerk of the peace</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50645_geo776">City an Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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who had been desired to make<lb></lb>
the like search it<del>above</del>
appeared that he had received several Duplicates of Vagrant Passes and<lb></lb>
examinations but the none had been delivered to him in his Office pursuant to the<lb></lb>
Statute.</p>
<p n="941">Whereupon on full consideration of the Premisses the Committee<lb></lb>
an of<del>came to the following</del>
Opinion as follows (vizt.)</p>
<p n="942"> <del>Resolved that it is the Opinion of the<obscured></obscured>
</del>
that of late Years the<lb></lb>
directions of an Act of parliament made in the seventeenth year of the late King<lb></lb>
''entilled An Act to amend and make more effectual the laws relating to Regues and<lb></lb>
"Vagabonds and other idle and disorderly Persons and to houses of Correction relative to the<lb></lb>
"returns of the Duplicates of the Passes and examination of Vagrants" have not been<lb></lb>
properly complied with</p>
<p n="943"> <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
it would be much for the benefit of the Publick if such<lb></lb>
directions were more properly followed and adhered to</p>
<p n="944"> <del>Read opinion of this Committee</del>
& that the Court of Quarter Session<lb></lb>
should take proper measures to enforce a more strict Obedience to the directions of the<lb></lb>
said Act</p>
<p n="945">The Committee took into Consideration the humble Petition of the sevl. Constable<lb></lb>
of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50645_geo777">St. Clement danes</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50645_geo778">County of Middlesex</rs>
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& <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50645_geo779">Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. refered to his Committee forth that the sd. Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50645_geo780">St. Clement danes</rs>
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being the first Parish out of<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50645_geo781">City of London</rs>
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and as such liabloe to accept of Vagrants taken up in & passed from the<lb></lb>
sd. <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50645_geo782">City of London</rs>
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& that of late Years great Numbers of such Vagrant having been passed<lb></lb>
upon the petitioners in Order that the petitioners might forward them to the<lb></lb>
Contractor for the Conveying such Vagrants to their respective Settlements and the<lb></lb>
Petitioners having been put to very great trouble & Expences occasioned thereby<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
apply<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
for relief in the premisses Etc.</p>
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