THE COMMITTEE of the MAGISTRATES of the respective
COUNTIES of CHESTER and LANCASTER , appointed by
the COURTS Of QUARTER SESSIONS OF THE PEACE for the said re-
spective Counties, for taking into Consideration the present
Mode of Maintaining, Conveying, and Shipping Vagrants in
the said Counties, and the EXPENCES attending the same;
to reduce such Expences, having met at Warrington on the
Fifteenth Day of MARCH and the Nineteenth Day of May,
1785, DO make the following REPORT of their PROCEED-
INGS to the respective Courts of Quarter Sessions of the Peace
in the said several Counties, viz.

That it appears to this Committee,

THAT during the space of three years ending the 7th day of October, 1783,
the number of Vagrants conveyed through the County of Chester has
been 7925, of this number 4686 have been Irish vagrants, tha the expence
of maintaining and conveying, such Vagrants in general, and shipping such of
them as were Irish Vagrants has amounted to £3603:18:1, and that the ex-
pence of maintaining, conveying, and shipping of such Irish Vagrants only has
during that period been £2142:8:8½.

THAT by a particular account taken of the number of Vagrants of main-
tained conveyed and shipped, and of the expences of such maintenance, con-
veying and shipping in the County of Chester for one year ending the 5th day
of October 1784, the whole number of Vagrants passed has been 3743, of
which 2102 have been Irish Vagrants, and of that number 1170 have been
shipped at Park-gate , and 932 have been conveyed through the County of
Chester to Warrington , and from thence to Liverpool .

THAT the general expence of maintaining and conveying all such Vagrants
in the County of Chester has been £1500:19:10½, and that the expence of
maintaining, conveying and shipping the said Irish Vagrants only in the
County of Chester has been £974:13:11½.
THAT