January 1795

That in many instances it appears that Orders have been
made for the payment of the Reward for the apprehending on the
same day on which the Vagrants were committed altho' the Act
requires that no Reward shall be Ordered to be paid by any Justice
untill such Rogue or Vagabond shall have been punished as therein
directed and until the Examination required by the aforesaid Act hath
been actually transmitted to the next General or Quarter Session there
to be filed and kept on Record.

That it appears to Your Committee that in many
instances no Examination of the Vagrant hath ever been
transmitted to the Office of the Clerk of the Peace as by the Act is
required tho' Rewards have constantly been Ordered to the Persons
apprehending such Vagrants.

This Your Committee conceive to be a very material
omission in the execution of the present Laws respecting Vagrants
and they beg leave to recommend that some method should be
adopted to prevent the Rewards being received until a Certificate
obtained of the punishment having been inflicted and the
Examination properly returned to the Clerk of the Peace.

That it appears to your Committee that the same Persons
have been repeatedly apprehended and Rewards ordered to be paid
for the apprehension of them several times in the course of a few
Months which must be occasioned in a great Measure from a
want of due attention being paid to the Act of Parliament
authorizing the Magistrate to pass Vagrants to their proper
Parishes after punishment for Acts of Vagrancy which your
Committee conceive ought to be recommended to the Magistrates to
do in all cases where no special reason appears to make such
Proceeding improper.