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Tenements Tho' perhaps for that Reason the more danger of
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infection, Therefore upon the whole of this point, your
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committee Unanimously came to this Resolution That it
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"appears to this committee that the great multitude of
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"Inmates Harbourned within the Kills of mortality and the
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"parts Adjacent, is very dangerous and may be prejudicial to
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"the Healths of his Majestys Subjects, as well as to the public
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"peace, and is likewise one great cause of the frequency of
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"street Robberys and other Felonys, and that it doth not
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"appear to this Committee that the Laws now in being are
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"effectual or sufficient to prevent or Remedy such mischief
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Your Committee likewise as well from the notoriety, of the
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fact as from their observations upon the Returns before
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mentioned came to the following Resolution (vizt.)
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"That it appears to this Committee that the Extravagant
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"multitude of Geneva shops within the Kills of mortality
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"and parts Adjacent is one great cause of the encrease of
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"street Robbers and other Felons.
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And your Committee upon observing in some of the said
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Returns the state of the might watch Kept on the several
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Divisions particularly in the
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Holborn
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as it stands now divided from the now
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and the Libty of
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and Ely Rents (which therefore may serve to show how it
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is maintained in other parts) Law therein with the
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Utmost concern one Great Rise of the present Complaints,
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Your Committee berg leave for a specimen to lay before
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the Court a short state of the matter in the said parish as
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it was Reported by the Justices acting therein to stand
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on the 30th. of October last.
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The Watch there is, (vizt.)
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For the parish of
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-But 17
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Watchmen
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of which two are Readles
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and 3 more always attend the
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at the Watchouse, These
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have but 9th P annm each and come but
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at 11 and go off at 5 in the morning.
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And your Committee could not but agree with the
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Justices of that Division in their opinion formed upon
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inspecting the respective books of collections for the
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payment of the several watchmen of theaforesaid
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