Middx

At the General Quarter Session of the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King
holden for the County of Middx at Hicks hall in St John Street in the County
aforesaid by adjornment on Thursday the fifteenth day of January in the
fourteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second King of
Great Britain Etc .

Whereas St. Edward Hill< no role > Knt. Nicholas Jeffreys< no role > George Tarry< no role > This name instance is in set 239. John Poulson< no role >
and George Errington< no role > Esquires being a Quorum of the Committee of Justices
of the peace for the County of Middx to whom It was referred by an
Order made at the last General Sessions to consider what rates & prices are
reasonable & fit to be allowed for maintaining & passing of Rogues,
Vagabonds or incorrigible Rogues pursuant to the late Act of Parliament
in Such case made, and to consider of the difficultys which have arisen
in & about putting the Said Act in execution, Have by their Report in
writing Certifyed to this Court That they have taken into their
consideration what rates & prices are reasonable to be allowed for the
Service aforesaid, And are of opinion that the said rates & prices be the Same
as are ascertained and mentioned in an Order made at the General
Quarter Sessions of the peace holden for the Said County in the Mouth of
July last, and do so continue until further Order of the Court of General
Quarter or General Sessions of the peace for this County to the
contrary, And that they are of opinion that Such rates & prices Shall
not extend to such Rogues and Vagabonds as have or Shall be passed
by the Keepers of the Houses of Correction in this County, But that it
may be proper that the Court of Session Should appoint a Committee
of Justices of the peace to inspect and examine after the end of every
three Months the Accounts of the Keepers of the said Houses of
Correction, of the charges which they have been at in passing and
releiving Rogues & Vagabonds in pursuance of the Said Act and
also the certificates & vouches of the Said Keepers, And to adjust what
Sum of money ought to be paid to the Said Keepers for such
charges, and what allowance may be proper to be made to the
Said Keepers respectively for their trouble on account of the premisses,
This Court upon reading the Said Report Doth direct that the rates &
allowances for maintaining and passing of Rogues Vagabonds or
incorrigible Rogues be the Same as are limited & appointed by the
Said Order of General Quarter Sessions made in July last And do
So continue until farther Order of the Court of General Quarter or
General Sessions of the peace for this County to the countrary, And
that a proper Order be made by this Court for that purpose, And as
to so much of the said Report as doth concern the Keepers of the