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<p n="1100">Wickedness, and many Young and unwary persons are<lb></lb>
drawn in and by degrees Seduced and hardened to the<lb></lb>
Same courses, and that the Committee did not only<lb></lb>
recomend it to all the Justices then present, but did<lb></lb>
unanimously agree to report it to us as fit to be recomended<lb></lb>
by us to the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ1554">Justices of the peace</rs>
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of the Said County, acting in<lb></lb>
their Severall Divisions That where they find upon occasion<lb></lb>
of persons being brought before them out of publick houses<lb></lb>
That there is a probable Evidence of the Said houses or any<lb></lb>
of them being disorderly houses and Judictable or fit to be<lb></lb>
Judicted as Such They do for the future make it a Rule to bind<lb></lb>
over the Keepers of Such houses to the next Sessions in order<lb></lb>
to their being respectively prosecuted as the case may<lb></lb>
require, for the Same,</p>
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That It appeared likewise to the Committee by Severall of<lb></lb>
the aforesaid returns that many of the Said publick as well<lb></lb>
as private houses harboured great Numbers of loose idle<lb></lb>
disorderly and Suspicious people as Lodgers or Inmates to<lb></lb>
Such a degree as to have in Some of them three or four<lb></lb>
beds in a room for the recepcon of persons who are<lb></lb>
accomodated at two pence or three pence a night, and no<lb></lb>
inquiry made into their honesty or character, which<lb></lb>
cannot but be productive of all Sorts of inconveniencys to<lb></lb>
the parishes and places where Such usage is, and is highly<lb></lb>
necessary to be prevented as well in respect to the health of<lb></lb>
the people as for the Security of their persons and property,<lb></lb>
But when the Committee applyed themselves to consider<lb></lb>
of a legal method for that purpose It did not appeare to<lb></lb>
them that the Laws as they now Stand do Supply a direct<lb></lb>
remedy adequate to the mischeifs, For that the persons<lb></lb>
under their consideracons do not Seem to be Inmates<lb></lb>
within the descripcon or meaning of the Statutes of 31st.<lb></lb>
of Eliz: cap: 7 which only prohibited more Familys than<lb></lb>
one under the name of Inmates to be in one cottage (when<lb></lb>
the cottage is allowed by that Statute) upon the penalty</p>
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