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<p n="927">To the Worshipful <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50800_n927-1">Wm Mainwaring</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50800_occ256">Esqr</rs>
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. the Chairman and<lb></lb>
the rest of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50800_occ257">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50800_geo599">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in their Session of the peace holden for the said County in September 1785<lb></lb>
assembled</p>
<p n="928">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50800_n928-1">Henry Adams</rs>
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<p n="929"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humbly Sheweth</note>
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That in April Session 1774 Your Petitioner Succeeded<lb></lb>
his late Father <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50800_n929-1">James Sturges Adams</rs>
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as contractor for conveying Vagrants<lb></lb>
in through and out of this County that your Petitioner has an allowance of<lb></lb>
£250 P Annum under his Contract for conveying exclusive of the Subsistence<lb></lb>
of Vagrants till passed and while passing</p>
<p n="930">That in October Session last your Petitioner applied to your<lb></lb>
Worships stating that during the three years immediately succeeding his<lb></lb>
Contract he had upon an average removed 1245 Vagrants by Virtue of<lb></lb>
860 passes each year that the number removed by him during the last<lb></lb>
three years ending in April 1784 was upon an average 26 37 by 1888<lb></lb>
passes and in consequence of the said application your Worships were<lb></lb>
pleased to allow your Petitioner the sum of one hundred pounds for the extra<lb></lb>
Expense Trouble and attention brought upon him by the great Increase of<lb></lb>
Vagrants in the said Period</p>
<p n="931">That the Number of Vagrants since removed by your<lb></lb>
Petitioner has so much increased that during the last year ending in<lb></lb>
April 1785 he has removed 4244 Vagrants by Virtue of 3329 passes<lb></lb>
which is 1038 Vagrants by 954 passes more than the Number removed<lb></lb>
by him during the year ending in April 1784.</p>
<p n="932">Wherefore Your Petitioner Humbly prays Your<lb></lb>
Worships in consequence of the said increase to grant<lb></lb>
him such further relief as in your wisdom and Justice<lb></lb>
shall seem meet</p>
<p n="933">And your Petitioner will ever pray Etc</p>
<p n="934"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50800_n934-1">Henry Adams</rs>
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