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<p n="266"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx ss:</note>
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Ad General Session pacis Dui Regis tent P Com Middx apnd Hicks hall in St. John street in Com prd. P adjorn<lb></lb>
die Jovis scilt <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50158_date48">sexto die Decembris anno regui Dui Georgij nunc Regis Magne Britannie Etc tertio</rs>
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coram<lb></lb>
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offley</rs>
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& al socijs Sins Justic dci Dui Regis as pacem in Com prd. conservand necnon ad divers felon tusgr & al<lb></lb>
malefacta in eodem Com Ppetrat audiend & terminand assign</p>
<p n="267">Whereas It appeareth to this Court that great inconvenience have arison & frequent refleccons been cast on<lb></lb>
the Justices<del>Comicon</del>
of the peace of this County occasioned by some of their<del>Justices of the peace</del>
baileing or dischargeing of persons<lb></lb>
apprehended upon warrants granted or comitted to Newgate, New Prison or the House of Correccon by one or more<lb></lb>
Justices of this County liveing at distance without the knowledge or privity of the Justice or Justices who reced the<lb></lb>
Informacon granted such warrant or comitted such persons, And whereas alsoe many abuses have arisen from<lb></lb>
Justices granting of licences to sell ale or beer by Retail & putting in execucon divers penal laws & statutes<lb></lb>
against persons liveing remote from them and in such Divisions & parishes where the characters & substance<lb></lb>
<del>of the persons could not possibly be known to the Justices soe acting, whereby it is made difficult for the Justices<lb></lb>
to act in such cases wth. a due regard to the publique & to the persons concerned</del>
For preventing and avoyding<lb></lb>
these & the like inconveinencys for the future It is thought fit &<del>proper to</del>
Recomended by this Cort to the Justices of the peace of this<lb></lb>
County to act in their severall Divisions according to the<del>following</del>
Rules & direccons<del>(vizt.)</del>
fol (vizt.)</p>
<p n="268">That before they bail or discharge any Offender who is or shall be appprehended or comitted to any Goal within this County<lb></lb>
by any warrant from any Justice or Justices of the peace inhabiting within the weekly Bills of mortality in this County they<lb></lb>
doe send to such Justice or Justices of the peace who granted such warrant or made such comittmt. and receive from him<lb></lb>
or them an accompt of the offence & charge agt. such Offender, and this especially in cases of suspicon of felony, and<lb></lb>
in all Parochial cases as bastardy keeping of disorderly houses, prosecucons agt. Parish Officers & the like,</p>
<p n="269">That they doe not grant licences for selling of ale been or other liquors by Retail to any person liveing out of the<lb></lb>
parish where the sd. Justice of peace dwells<del>or is concerned</del>
stet unless in cases where noe acting Justices of the peace doe dwell within the<lb></lb>
parish, and in such cases that they be desired to confine themselves to their respective Divisions, And that even in<lb></lb>
their own parishes or Divisions they grant noe licence to any whose licence hath been taken away or supprest<lb></lb>
or refused to be renewed by other Justices of the peace without acquainting the Justices of the peace who suppress'd or refused to renew<lb></lb>
the same,</p>
<p n="270">That for avoyding oppression by Informers & other great inconveniencys in putting in execucon the laws agt. such persons<lb></lb>
who sell drink on Sundays or in short & unsealed measures or neglect to sett up lights, & in all other offences of the<lb></lb>
like nature, they doe confine themselves to the respective parishes wherein they dwell And if any come to inform<lb></lb>
agt. persons liveing in distant or other parishes that they doe first direct such Informers to apply to some Justice of the peace within the<lb></lb>
parish where the Offender lives, and if noe Justice of the peace lives within that parish then to some Justice of the peace within that Division,</p>
<p n="271">That for the more strict observance of the severall Orders already made or to be by this Court for the better &<lb></lb>
more effectually obliging Constables Headboroughs & other Peace Officers to doe their dutys and to see that the laws &<lb></lb>
Statutes of this Kingdom and the Orders of this Court be putt in execucon, It is particularly Recomended to the<lb></lb>
Justices of the peace to be watchfull over the Officers of their parishes & in their Divisions, and where they find any neglect or<lb></lb>
abuse in them to take some proper care that the Officers soe offending may be punished according to their Demerit,</p>
<p n="272">That for preventing publique clamor & law suits occasioned by Justices of the peace who liveing at a distance shall or may be<lb></lb>
applyed to in order to pass the accompts of Overseers of the poor of distant parishes to allow of<del>make & grant</del>
poors Rates or any other<lb></lb>
parochial Rates & to give Orders for releife of the poor, or the like altho' severall acting Justices of the peace live in the sd.<lb></lb>
parishes or in the Neighbourhood, The Justices of the peace of this County are desired to for beare acting in any of the<lb></lb>
aforesaid or like cases in any parish where there are Justices of the peace inhabiting or in case noe acting Justice of the peace inhabits in<lb></lb>
the sd. parish to referr the matters to the Justices of peace of the neighbouring parishes,</p>
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