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April 1786

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may be directed by the original Pass, but to vary the same as they
in their direction think proper.

THAT it be also recommended to Magistrates granting Passes
for the conveyance of Irish Vagrants, to order that they shall be
sent to the nearest port to the place where they are apprehended,
and from whence they may be most conveniently shipped for
Ireland.

THAT it also be represented to the different Magistrates, that
when a man, his wife, and child or children are apprehended and
taken before a Justice of the Peace to be passed, one sum of ten
shillings only ought to be allowed in any such case to the Con-
stable or other person apprehending them, and not ten shillings
for each of them, the wife in the first instance being under the
influence of the husband, and the children in the other instance
being under the direction of their parents.

THAT it be also recommended to the said Justices not to allow
a reward for apprehending any person who applies for a Pass, or
wants to be conveyed to the place of his or her Settlement, or
to his or her Native Country, or for apprehending any Person
who has asked relief merely on account of his or her having been
delayed in his or her journey by bad health, or accidental mis-
fortune, and who is in the direct road to his or her place of Set-
tlement or Native Country, and can give a good account of him
or herself; the Service done by the Constable in such cases being
not to the public but to the person who is to have the benefit of
being carried home at the expence of the public.

THAT the Magistrates of the Several Counties and Districts
be desired to consider how far they are bound by the before-men-
tioned Statute, to allow ten Shillings each for apprehending
rogues, vagabonds, and incorrigible rogues, as a matter of course,
or whether the power of allowing that reward is not meant by
the legislature to be discretionary in the Magistrates, and whether
is ought to be extended farther than as a suitable encouragement
for Constables or other persons to do their duty, and so as to be
a proper recompence to any Constable or other person for his
trouble in apprehending such rogues or vagabonds as appear to
be common beggars, and dangerous Vagrants, or who either can-
not, or shall refuse to give a good account of him, her, or them-
selves.

THAT it be also earnestly recommended to the Justices, in the
respective Counties, to consider whether the fees to their Clerks.
and.




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