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If further appeared to the Committee from the report of the
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of this County who had been directed to make the proper search that very few
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Duplicates of Passes and examination of Vagrants have been transmitted to him and few
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if any according to direction contained in the Act of the 17th. Geo. 2d. and from the Account of the
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who had been desired to make
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the like search it
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appeared that he had received several Duplicates of Vagrant Passes and
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examinations but the none had been delivered to him in his Office pursuant to the
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Opinion as follows (vizt.)
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Resolved that it is the Opinion of the
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that of late Years the
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directions of an Act of parliament made in the seventeenth year of the late King
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''entilled An Act to amend and make more effectual the laws relating to Regues and
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"Vagabonds and other idle and disorderly Persons and to houses of Correction relative to the
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it would be much for the benefit of the Publick if such
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directions were more properly followed and adhered to
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Read opinion of this Committee
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& that the Court of Quarter Session
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should take proper measures to enforce a more strict Obedience to the directions of the
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The Committee took into Consideration the humble Petition of the sevl. Constable
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of the Parish of
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. refered to his Committee forth that the sd. Parish of
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and as such liabloe to accept of Vagrants taken up in & passed from the
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& that of late Years great Numbers of such Vagrant having been passed
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upon the petitioners in Order that the petitioners might forward them to the
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Contractor for the Conveying such Vagrants to their respective Settlements and the
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Petitioners having been put to very great trouble & Expences occasioned thereby
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apply
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for relief in the premisses Etc.
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