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AT the General Session of the Peace of our Lord the
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King holden in and for the
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SESSION-HOUSE for the said County (by adjournment) on
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Saturday the Second Day of June, in the Thirty-second
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Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the
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THE inclosed Proclamation and also the Letter from the Right Honour-
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, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, being
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, and being read, and the same
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It was RESOLVED by the Court,
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That Printed Copies of the said Proclamation together with the said Letter be
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sent to all the acting Magistrates of this County, and that they be requested to
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use their utmost diligence to carry the same into Effect, and to communicate
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the purposes of the said Proclamation to the several Peace Officers in their re-
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spective Divisions; requiring them to be diligent and attentive to suppress and
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prevent all Riots and Tumults, and all other Proceedings which may tend to
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distrub the Public Peace; and that they do their endeavours to discover the
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Authors and Printers of all Seditious and Libellous Writings, and any Persons
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who shall disperse the same; and that they do, from Time to Time, give In-
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formation to the Magistrates in their several Divisions of such Persons as may
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be found offending in any of the Premises aforesaid.
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RESOLVED also,
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of each Division, in this County with Directions for them to deliver
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the same to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the respective
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By the Court,
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SELBY.
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SIR,
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I HAVE the honour to transmit to you, by the
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Order of Sessions, the foregoing Copy of their Resolutions on the Subject
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of His Majesty's Proclamation herewith inclosed. and I am, with the greatest
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respect,
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