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WEST-RIDING of
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Bradford Sessions, July 16, 1789.
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PRESENT,
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The Rev.
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HENRY ZOUCH
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Henry Wickhyam
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Pemberton Milnes
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Beckett
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John Dixon
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Francis Edmunds
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, Esqrs.
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ON reading the letter sent to the
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Clerk of the Peace
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by
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his Grace the Duke of Montagu, as President of the Soci-
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ety establihed in
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, for giving effect to his Ma-
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jesty's late Proclamation, in which letter the Society is
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pleased recommend to the Justices at their Quarter-
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Sessions, that two Magistrates may be deputed from every
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County in the kingdom to meet in London after Christ-
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mas, and during the session of Parliament, to consider of
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the proper steps to be taken for bringing forward such
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plans for the general reform of the police as they shall
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think most advisable, It is
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Resolved, That institutions of this Kind, being founded
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on the noblest and most difintersted principles, this Court
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beg leave to offer their warmest and most sincere acknow-
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ledgements to his Grace the Duke of Montague, and those
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other distinguished persons who compose the Society in
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which his Grace presides, for their zeal, perseverance, and
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firmness in the conduct of it, and to assure them that the
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Magistrates of this Riding will exert themselves to the
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utmost of their powers, in giving weight and energy to
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this most important undertaking.
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Resolved, that the Earl of
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Effingham
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and the
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Rev
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Henry
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be requested to give their attendance in London,
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in puruance of the recommendatory lettter from his Grace
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the Duke of Montagu, and that they be desired to com-
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municate from time to time with the other Justices of this
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Riding, in order to obtain every necessary information
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which may conduce to the establishment of a strong, ef-
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ective, and permanent system of police.
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Resolved, That these resolutions be submitted to the
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consideration of the Court of Quarter-sessions which is to
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be holden the next week at Rotherham.
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Rotherham
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-Sessions, July 22, 1789.
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PRESENT,
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The Rev.
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HENRY ZOUCH
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James Wilkinson
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cis Edmunds
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Richard Ellison
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Esqrs
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THIS Court having taken into consideration the resolu-
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tions of Bradford sessions, do unanimously approve of
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them; and it is ordered that copies of them be transmitted
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by the
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Clerk of the Peace
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to his Grace the Duke of
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Norfolk,
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Lord Lieutenant
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and Custos Rotulorum of this
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Riding, who is requested to communicate them to his
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Grace the Duke of Montagu and the Earl of
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Effingham
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THO. WYBERGH
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