contrive to support themselves and Families in Idleness and intail a Race of Rogues
and Vagabonds upon Posterity.

2d. That when Vagabonds are apprehended and brought before the Magistrates
the Punishment prescribed by the said Act has been in too many Instances
dispensed with And this We apprehend is not only a great Incouragement to
Beggars but also renders the Passes in themselves illegal and such Magistrates
private Fortunes liable to all the Charge incurred from such Passes

3d. That the Magistrates in general in not returning the Duplicates of the
Vagrant Passes and Examinations to the next Sessions as directed by the said
Act there to be kept as Records renders the Clause of the said Act for the
Punishment of incorrigible Rogues of no force for it seems doubtfull how
incorrigible Rogues can be convicted without such Records.

4th. The two liberal Distribution of the Ten Shillings with which the Magistrates
are impowered to reward Persons apprehending Vagrants and the Acts made use
of by Officers in the Conveying of Vagrants by obtaining Passage for them at one
Third of the Expence allowed by Sessions by means of Carriers and other easy
Methods have proved so lucrative that a kind of Trade has been made of it at the
Expence of the County Your Committee by inspecting the Orders for paying the
Reward of Ten Shillings find upwards of Fifty Pounds directed to be paid in the
Compass of about a Year by one Magistrate a Sum We believe greater than
directed in the like Cases by all the rest of the Magistrates of the County in
the same time And when the Sums paid for passing the Vagrants are
added to the said Fifty pounds it amounts to near a Twelfth Part of the whole
County Rate and near a Fourth of the whole Expence charged upon the County
upon this Account: And your Committee think that no Magistrates Clerk
ought to make any Deduction upon Pretence of having made out the Pass
and Order out of the Ten Shillings which is the Reward given by the Law
to the Apprehender: But your Committee found the contrary has been done
and that Four Shillings has been deducted by the Clerk of that Magistrate
out of such Reward, which induces your Committee to be of Opinion that this
extraordinary Method of sharing the Reward between the Constable and
Justices Clerk may have produced an Imposition upon the Justice and been
the Cause of this extraordinary Charge upon the County. Nor can your
Committee help observing that many of the Orders for the paying the above Fifty
Pounds are made out in large Sums in one Order and coached in Terms not
expressive of the Cause for which they were made or given under Hand and Seal
Nor does it appear that such Vagrants were either whipped or committed to
Bridewell or that any Duplicates of the Passes or Examinations were returned