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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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to the next General or Quarter Sessions of the peace duplicates of the passes
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and Examinations of the Vagabonds so passed in order that if such persons
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should return and be found committing the like offence they may abide
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the Sentence of the Court that of imprisonment for a term
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not exceeding
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two years and the being publickly whipped at such times and places
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as the Court shall direct.
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And the said Magistrates do also
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exhort to require of the said
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and Beadles to make a
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return to them of all Bawdy-Houses and Gaming-Houses in their
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respective Parishes in order that such Houses may be suppressed
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and the Keepers of them brought to condign punishment
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And Whereas public Streets and Highways within this county
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she Streets of this Metropolis
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are at this time
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ingly have been most in fa-
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mously infested
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so pestered by common Prostitutes who by the same which
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where audacity
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hath risen to such a height that it is become in a degree unsafe for the
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modest and decent part of this Majesty's Subjects to pass and repass the
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publick Streets upon their lawful occasions from the close of evening
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untill past Midnight and Whereas the snares these abandoned
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lay for unwary Youth are often the
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Means of their destruction
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is the great increase of publick and private Robbers. In order to remedy
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this
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dang daring and
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growing evil it is recommended to the
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Magistrates in their respective Parishes that they do summon the constable
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convene be-
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fore them and exhort the Constables
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before them and strictly require and
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them to exert their utmost deligence
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to put a stop to these
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dangerous and increasing disorders
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by apprehending
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all such prostitutes as shall be found infesting the Streets, and that
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the said Constables do give special direction to their several Watch
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men to do the same.
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And the Magistrates do most earnestly recommend it to the
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Masters of
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Servants and
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Apprentices and Servants in the lower branches of
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Trades and Manufactures not to suffer their Apprentices
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or Servants to wander about the publick Streets after the hours
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of labour are over it being notorious that numbers of them
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by connecting themselves with common Strumpets pickpockets
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