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<p n="381">Rotation Office Litchfield Street<lb></lb>
10th May 1782</p>
<p n="382">Minutes of the Committee appointed to Examine the Laws<lb></lb>
respecting Gaming and Gaming Houses</p>
<p n="383">Present<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50754_n383-1">Thomas Bishop</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50754_n383-2">Sampson Wright</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50754_n383-3">James Croft</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50754_n383-4">William Addington</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50754_n383-5">John Barnfather</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50754_n383-5" type="given" value="John"></interp>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50754_n383-6">George Mercer</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50754_n383-7">James Paine</rs>
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Esqr.</p>
<p n="384">Read the Minutes of the last Meeting</p>
<p n="385">Mr. Eyles Reported that pursuant to the Incons<lb></lb>
of the Committee at their last Meeting he had Transmitted to Mr<lb></lb>
Alderman Crosby a fair Copy of the whole of the Proceedings of<lb></lb>
this Committee and that he had received the following Resolutions<lb></lb>
from him vizt.</p>
<p n="386"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Plomer Mayor</note>
<lb></lb>
At a Court of Aldermen held on Tuesday<lb></lb>
the 7th. day of May 1782 and in the Twenty<lb></lb>
Second Year of the Reign of King George<lb></lb>
the Third of Great Britain Etc.</p>
<p n="387">Resolved tha the Representations for this City in parlia<lb></lb>
ment and such Members of this Court as are Members of<lb></lb>
Parliament be desired to Cooperate with the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50754_occ104">Justices of the peace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50754_geo400">County of Middlesex</rs>
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or any other persons in brink in<lb></lb>
a Bill to suppress the Game of E. O. and other Games of<lb></lb>
Chance which now prevail to the Ruin of many Unhappy<lb></lb>
Persons in this Metropolis</p>
<p n="388">Rix.</p>
<p n="389">Adjourned to the 13th. Instant same place</p>
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