" Felons and persons Returning from Transportation is the
" Extream difficulty which the persons apprehending and
" prosecuting such Offenders, meet wish even in the usual
" Forms to be passed thro for Obtaining the Rewards due to
" them as well by his Majestys Gracious proclamation as by
" act of parliament for the apprehending and Convicting
" the Offenders therein mentioned Respectively.

2

In the next place Your Committee Observing upon
several of the Returns from the petty Sessions's above
mentioned, That very ill and suspicions people were
frequently taken by the peace Officers out of publick
Houses and brought before Justices and by them
Committee as the Case required, But not observing That
Notice was taken by the Justices of the Keepers of such
Disorderly houses, or a method taken for their punishment
or suppression, Which the Committee think of the greatest
Consequence to the publick and the best End to begin at,
It being certain That by finding such harbouring places
old Offenders are brought and Kept together and thereby
Encouraged in a society of Wickedness and many young
and unwary persons are drawn in and by degrees seduced
and harden'd to the same Courses - Your Committee did
not only Recommend it to all the Justices then present,
But did Unanimously Agree to Report it to this Court as fit
to be Recommended by the Court to the Justices of the
peace of this County acting in their several divisions,
That where they find (upon occasion of persons being
brought before them out of publick Houses) That there
is a probable Evidence of the said Houses or any of them
being Disorderly houses and Indictable or fit to be
Indicted as such, They do for the future make it a Rule to
bind over the Sleepers of such houses to the next sessions
in order to their being respectively prosecuted as the
case may require for the same.

(3)

It appeared likewise to your Committee by several of the
aforesaid Returns That many of the said publick as well
as private houses harboured great numbers of loose idle
disorderly and Suspicions people as Lodgers or Immortes to
such a degree as to have in same of them three or four