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London.
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That your Committee thinking this a matter of great
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Importance to this County did by letter request the Lord Mayer and Alderman
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of the
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to appoint a time and place for a
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Conference with your Committee on this Subject to which they
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received an Answer dated the 12 of November last informing
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them that their request should be said before the next
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Court
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Court of Alderman, but no Conference has yet been appointed
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As so great a length of time has clapsed without
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any conference being appointed by the City Magistrates Your
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Committee have thought it proper to report to the Court the
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following resolutions which have been come to by your Committee the
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Resolved it appears to this
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that it is the opinion of this
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Committee
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that the number of Vagrants passed in through and out of this
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County are of late Years greatly increased
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Resolved that it appears to this Committee That the
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has greatly increased & become a heavy Charge upon yd. County
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Expence of apprehending passing and relieving Vagrants
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from April
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the same having Amounting to the Sum of 857. for one Year
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Ending in
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1784 to
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April 1785
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including Mr. Adams Salary and a
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to £057
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Resolved that it appears to this Committee by the information
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of the sd. Contractor that Several persons have been passed from the
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dangerously
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Ill. some of which have died the Contractor his Hands & in the Respite
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before they could be moved by him out of this County & that many
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are passed as Vagrants who do not appear to be Objects of the
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Vagrants Law. Resoled that it appears to upon this Committee That the great
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Increase of Vagrants arises from the great number coming from the
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and the Ease with which passes are there obtained
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Resolved That it appears to this Committee from the information of
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Mr. Adams the sd. Contractor That the City Magistrates never
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other Cause the Vagrants to Be Whipp or Imprisoned Vagrants previous to their being passed
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