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