Wickedness, and many Young and unwary persons are
drawn in and by degrees Seduced and hardened to the
Same courses, and that the Committee did not only
recomend it to all the Justices then present, but did
unanimously agree to report it to us as fit to be recomended
by us to the Justices of the peace of the Said County, acting in
their Severall 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 Judictable or fit to be
Judicted as Such They do for the future make it a Rule to bind
over the Keepers of Such houses to the next Sessions in order
to their being respectively prosecuted as the case may
require, for the Same,

3

That It appeared likewise to the Committee by Severall of
the aforesaid returns that many of the Said publick as well
as private houses harboured great Numbers of loose idle
disorderly and Suspicious people as Lodgers or Inmates to
Such a degree as to have in Some of them three or four
beds in a room for the recepcon of persons who are
accomodated at two pence or three pence a night, and no
inquiry made into their honesty or character, which
cannot but be productive of all Sorts of inconveniencys to
the parishes and places where Such usage is, and is highly
necessary to be prevented as well in respect to the health of
the people as for the Security of their persons and property,
But when the Committee applyed themselves to consider
of a legal method for that purpose It did not appeare to
them that the Laws as they now Stand do Supply a direct
remedy adequate to the mischeifs, For that the persons
under their consideracons do not Seem to be Inmates
within the descripcon or meaning of the Statutes of 31st.
of Eliz: cap: 7 which only prohibited more Familys than
one under the name of Inmates to be in one cottage (when
the cottage is allowed by that Statute) upon the penalty