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<p n="4015">July 1789</p>
<p n="4016">Resolved Unanimously It is the Opinion of this Court<lb></lb>
that the complaint of these Mischiefs is well founded and one of the<lb></lb>
Magistrates present having declared that he had communicated the<lb></lb>
substance of this Letter to several Masters in different branches of,<lb></lb>
Business that in consequence of such Representation they had desisted<lb></lb>
from the practice and that their Workmen had already experienced<lb></lb>
much benefit from a discontinuance of it.</p>
<p n="4017">Ordered that Extracts from the above Letter be printed and<lb></lb>
a Copy sent to each of the Magistrates of this County recommending to<lb></lb>
their serious consideration the necessity of their Application to the<lb></lb>
Masters of the respective Workmen within their Influence and also of<lb></lb>
their admonition to the Publicans at the time of renewing the Licences.</p>
<p n="4018">The Clerk of the Peace laid before the Court a Letter<lb></lb>
which he had received from His Grace the Duke of Montage<lb></lb>
President of the Society for giving effect to His Majestys Proclamation<lb></lb>
against Vice and Immorality and the same being Read as follows.</p>
<p n="4019">London 5th. June 1789.</p>
<p n="4020">"To the Clerk of the Peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo2593">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="4021">"Sir,</p>
<p n="4022">"It appears to this Society that great mischief and<lb></lb>
"expence have arisen by not enforcing generally the Laws against<lb></lb>
"Vagrants and by the abuse of granting walking or begging passes<lb></lb>
"indiscriminately to any Person applying for the same, and that<lb></lb>
"it will be impossible to correct such Abuses but by the general<lb></lb>
"execution of the Law throughout each County; for which purpose<lb></lb>
"this Society beg leave to recommend to the Justices at their Quarter<lb></lb>
"Sessions to depute two Magistrates to meet in London after<lb></lb>
"Christmas during the Session of Parliament. to consider of the<lb></lb>
"proper Steps to enforce generally the Laws against Vagrants, and<lb></lb>
"to correct such Abuses in future.</p>
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