THAT in pursuance of the said Act, an order has been made in the County
of Chester , for regulating and ascertaining the allowance for maintaining, con-
veying and shipping Vagrants in that County, but that no such order has yet
been made for those purposes in the County of Lancaster .

THAT Irish Vagrants have been shipped from Park-gate , and maintained
there in a House, which is provided for their reception, upon the following
terms, viz. 1½d. per day, besides an allowance for necessaries for each Vagrant,
while maintained at the said House, and 2s.4d. for bread, boatage and freight
for each Vagrant when put on board, and in addition to these charges the Per-
son employed to receive, maintain and keep such Vagrants, brings in a quar-
terly Bill for straw, coals, victuals and necessaries for sick Vagrants, and
other expences, which are allowed him each Sessions, and paid out of the
Public Stock for the said county of Chester .

THAT the Vessels statedly sailing from Park-gate to Dublin are at present only
two in number, each of 140 tons burden. That by an account taken from
the Custom-house Books at the Port of Chester of all Vessels, as well stated
as occasional, (above 20 Tons burden) which have sailed from the County of
Chester to Ireland , during the last year, it appears that they have been 74 in
number. And according to the proportion of one Vagrant to every 20 tons
burden of the said respective Vessels, the whole number of Vagrants which
the Magistrates of the County of Chester had, during the last year, a right to
order to be sent over to Ireland , was 102. That the Masters of vessels sailing
from Park-gate to Ireland , have, during the year, ending at Michaelmas 1784,
carried over 1170, and have not hitherto refused to take over such Vagrants
as have been ordered to be put on board their vessels, although the number
has, during the above period, exceeded by 1068 the proportion they were
under the Act of Parliament obliged to take according to the amount o their
Tonnage.

THAT Irish vagrants coming by Passes into, or apprehended in the County
of Lancaster , have been usually shipped from Liverpool , and maintained and
lodged in a Barn or House there kept for their Reception, at the Public Ex-
pence of the Inhabitants of the County of Lancaster , at the rate of 4d. per
day during the time the Vagrants wait for shipping, and 3s.6d. for freight
and sea store for each Vagrant, when sent on board.

THAT there are four Packets which statedly said form Liverpool to Dublin
of 240 tons burden in the whole, and they made altogether 91 trips in
the Year 1783, and 93 trips in the year 1784 to Dublin , and the total amount
of their burden being 5520 tons, upon an average of the years 1783 and 1784,
the number of Vagrants which such Packets might by Law be compelled to
take over was 276 per annum upon an average of the said years 1783 and
1784, but the Masters of such Packets have hitherto taken over all the Va-
grants from Liverpool , except in one instance during the Summer of the year
1783,