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<p n="1031"> WEST-RIDING of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50851_geo415">YORKSHIRE</rs>
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<p n="1032">Bradford Sessions, July 16, 1789.</p>
<p n="1033">PRESENT,</p>
<p n="1034">The Rev. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50851_n1034-89">HENRY ZOUCH</rs>
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, Chairman,</p>
<p n="1035"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50851_n1035-1">Henry Wickhyam</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50851_n1035-2">Pemberton Milnes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50851_n1035-3">John Blayds</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50851_n1035-4">John<lb></lb>
Beckett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50851_n1035-5">John Dixon</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50851_n1035-6">Francis Edmunds</rs>
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, Esqrs.</p>
<p n="1036">ON reading the letter sent to the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50851_occ173">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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by<lb></lb>
his Grace the Duke of Montagu, as President of the Soci-<lb></lb>
ety establihed in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50851_geo416">London</rs>
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, for giving effect to his Ma-<lb></lb>
jesty's late Proclamation, in which letter the Society is<lb></lb>
pleased recommend to the Justices at their Quarter-<lb></lb>
Sessions, that two Magistrates may be deputed from every<lb></lb>
County in the kingdom to meet in London after Christ-<lb></lb>
mas, and during the session of Parliament, to consider of<lb></lb>
the proper steps to be taken for bringing forward such<lb></lb>
plans for the general reform of the police as they shall<lb></lb>
think most advisable, It is</p>
<p n="1037">Resolved, That institutions of this Kind, being founded<lb></lb>
on the noblest and most difintersted principles, this Court<lb></lb>
beg leave to offer their warmest and most sincere acknow-<lb></lb>
ledgements to his Grace the Duke of Montague, and those<lb></lb>
other distinguished persons who compose the Society in<lb></lb>
which his Grace presides, for their zeal, perseverance, and<lb></lb>
firmness in the conduct of it, and to assure them that the<lb></lb>
Magistrates of this Riding will exert themselves to the<lb></lb>
utmost of their powers, in giving weight and energy to <lb></lb>
this most important undertaking.</p>
<p n="1038">Resolved, that the Earl of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50851_geo417">Effingham</rs>
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and the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50851_occ174">Rev</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50851_n1038-1">Henry<lb></lb>
Zouch</rs>
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be requested to give their attendance in London,<lb></lb>
in puruance of the recommendatory lettter from his Grace<lb></lb>
the Duke of Montagu, and that they be desired to com-<lb></lb>
municate from time to time with the other Justices of this <lb></lb>
Riding, in order to obtain every necessary information<lb></lb>
which may conduce to the establishment of a strong, ef-<lb></lb>
ective, and permanent system of police.</p>
<p n="1039">Resolved, That these resolutions be submitted to the <lb></lb>
consideration of the Court of Quarter-sessions which is to<lb></lb>
be holden the next week at Rotherham.</p>
<p n="1040"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50851_n1040-89">THO. WYBERGH</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50851_occ175">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1041"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50851_geo418">Rotherham</rs>
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-Sessions, July 22, 1789.</p>
<p n="1042">PRESENT,</p>
<p n="1043">The Rev. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50851_n1043-90">HENRY ZOUCH</rs>
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, Chairman,</p>
<p n="1044"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50851_n1044-1">James Wilkinson</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50851_occ176">Clerk</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50851_n1044-27">Robert Athorpe Athorpe</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50851_n1044-90">Fran<lb></lb>
cis Edmunds</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50851_n1044-90" type="surname" value="Edmunds"></interp>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50851_n1044-2">Richard Ellison</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50851_occ177">Jun</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50851_occ178">Esqrs</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1045">THIS Court having taken into consideration the resolu-<lb></lb>
tions of Bradford sessions, do unanimously approve of <lb></lb>
them; and it is ordered that copies of them be transmitted<lb></lb>
by the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50851_occ179">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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to his Grace the Duke of <lb></lb>
Norfolk, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50851_occ180">Lord Lieutenant</rs>
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and Custos Rotulorum of this<lb></lb>
Riding, who is requested to communicate them to his<lb></lb>
Grace the Duke of Montagu and the Earl of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50851_geo419">Effingham</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1046"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50851_n1046-89">THO. WYBERGH</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50851_occ181">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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