it be an Order form this Court, that such Person be not discharged or passed before the Sessions, not-
withstanding the Warrant of Commitment; at which Sessions the Keeper shall produce his Prisoner, and
the Record being with the Court, the Conviction will be rendered certain and easy; and that a Re-
ward, at the Discretion of the Court, should be paid the Keeper of Bridewell for every Person by
him so detected and proved an incorrigible Rogue.

Your Committee are of Opinion, that the Knowledge of the large Sums gained by the Constables
out of the Rates allowed by Sessions for conveying Vagabonds, may be applied to the Benefit of the
County, the effectual Conveying and Delivery of such Vagabonds being the sole Object of the Law,
and the cheapest Manner of doing it is left to the Discretion of the Court; and as the Method of
conveying by Stage Waggons, or Returning-Carriages, is to all Intents and Purposes as effectual as Carts
or Horses, which are generally appointed by the Justice, if it can be done by Means of Returning-
Carriages with less than Half the Charge, the County certainly ought to avail itself of this Saving,
and not suffer the Constable to raise a Kind of yearly Salary at the Expence of the publick. And
your Committee are of Opinion, that if a proper Person was appointed by the Court for this Purpose
of conveying Vagrants; and if Vagabonds apprehended in this Town, and adjoining Villages, were
committed to Bridewell , (as by far the greatest Part of the Expence to this County arises [..] n the
Beggars apprehended in this Town, and Villages adjacent) such Vagabonds might, under the Care
of such Person, once a Week, or oftner if need were, be conveyed from thence by the Means of
Stage Waggons Etc. to the great Saving of the Publik Money; but if this should not be thought a
proper Method, your Committee are of Opinion that the passing of Vagrants might be contracted for
by the Keeper of Bridewell, unde such Regulations as may be directed by this Court, so as to
make it an Object worthy his Consideration; and the County may be greatly benefited.

Proposal for
Conveying
Vagrants,
Etc.

AND WHEREAS Mr. James Sturgis Adams< no role > hath in Writing made the following Proposal; To Con-
tract for the Conveying all such Rogues and Vagabonds by Passes, as shall be sent to the several
Bridewells of Clerkenwell Middlesex , and Tothill Fields in the City and Liberty of Westminster , as well
as such Vagabonds as shall be directed through the County of Middlesex and the said City, in the Way
to their respective Settlements, who shall be lodged either at Bridewell , or such other Place in Town
as shall be appointed by the said Justices; that is to say,

That the said Sturgis Adams will provide himself with a Covered Cart and proper Horses, and cear
the Bridewells of all such Vagabonds whose Passes are there lodged, as well as those other Vagrants
whose Destination it through this County and the said City, from the Place where they shall be
lodged in Town, twice every Week; that is to say, those whose Destination is to the North, on one
Day every Week; and those to the South and West , on some other Day every Week, and safely de-
liver such Vagabonds to the several Parishes and Places they are destined to by their Passes, for the
Sum of Ten pounds a Month, to be paid Monthly, and he Allowance of Six-pence for the Sub-
sistance of every Vagrant in their Passage. the said Sum of Six-pence to be inserted in the Certificate,
and payable by the Trea [..] said Ad [..] with
some Magistrate of the Delivery of such Vagabond And the said Adams engages to deliver, on the
County Day of every Sessions in Middlesex , and to every Quarter Sessions at Westminster , a true List
of the Names of such Vagabonds who have been conveyed by him between Session and Sessions, di-
stinguishing the Bridewell or other Place from whence such Vagabonds were taken, the Date of the
Pass, the Place where delivered, Place of Settlement of Such Vagrants, and the Name of the Ma-
gistrate ho signed the Pass, and, if required, will verify such List upon Oath.

And the said Adams is willing to contract for such Time, and under such other Regulations, as that
seem meet to the Courts of Sessions of the said County and City and Liberty, and will give undeniabe
Security to perform his Contract, if required.

Order of
Court.

Now, upon reading and considering the said Report and Proposals, this Court is of Opinion, that a
considerable Saving of Expence, in passing and conveying of such Rogues and Vagabonds, will arise o
this County by the Regulations pointed out by the said Committee, and conveying Rogues and Va-
gabonds according to the said Proposal. THIS COURT doth therefore approve of the same, and doh
hereby appoint the said James Sturgis Adams< no role > to convey all such Rogues and Vagabonds according to
his said Proposal, for the Space of one Year, to commence from Monday the 25th Day of July Instant,
and doth agree, that, upon the said James Sturgis Adams< no role > 's due Performance of all the Matters concerned
in his said Proposal, there shall be paid to him, by the Treasurer of this County, after the Rate of every
Pounds a Month, over and besides the Allowance of Six-pence a Head for the Subsistance of every
such Rogue or Vagabond in their Passage, to be inserted in the Certificate as in the said pro-
posal is mentioned: And it is hereby recommended by this Court to the Justices of the F [..] of
this County, that they do, as far as in them lieth, promote the said Method of conveying of Rogues
and Vagabonds according to the said Proposals; and [..] that Purpose that the said Justices [..] e
next the City of London , [..] to whom Vagabonds [..] brought in their Destination to [..] s
County, would order such Vagabonds to be lodged in Clerkenwell Bridewell , to be from thence carried
by the said James Sturgis Adams< no role > , or any other Contractor , to the next County; and instead or [..] rt-
ing the Allowance, as heretofore, in the Certificate, to mention only an Allowance of Six-pence for
subsistance, according to the said Proposal. And the Keeper of Bridewell is to allow such Vagabonds
Two-pence a Day for their Subsistance during their Continuance there, and is to produce, at every
Sessions, his Account of such Vagabonds, and the Expence of maintaining them, according to fu [..] Al-
lowance of Two pence a Day, during their Continuance in Bridewell .

And this Court being of Opinion, that the Reward of Ten Shillings for the apprehending every
Vagrant Beggar especially in Town and the Parishes next adjoining) is more than adequate the
Time and Trouble of the Apprehender, and which has created Frauds, and brough a have six-
pence upon the County, doth therefore recommend to the said Justices to ease the County i [..] this
respect by a frugal Distribution of such Reward, and to proportion it to the Time and Troble
such Apprehender may have.