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it be an Order form this Court, that such Person be not discharged or passed before the Sessions, not-
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withstanding the Warrant of Commitment; at which Sessions the Keeper shall produce his Prisoner, and
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the Record being with the Court, the Conviction will be rendered certain and easy; and that a Re-
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ward, at the Discretion of the Court, should be paid the Keeper of
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for every Person by
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him so detected and proved an incorrigible Rogue.
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Your Committee are of Opinion, that the Knowledge of the large Sums gained by the Constables
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out of the Rates allowed by Sessions for conveying Vagabonds, may be applied to the Benefit of the
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County, the effectual Conveying and Delivery of such Vagabonds being the sole Object of the Law,
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and the cheapest Manner of doing it is left to the Discretion of the Court; and as the Method of
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conveying by Stage Waggons, or Returning-Carriages, is to all Intents and Purposes as effectual as Carts
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or Horses, which are generally appointed by the Justice, if it can be done by Means of Returning-
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Carriages with less than Half the Charge, the County certainly ought to avail itself of this Saving,
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and not suffer the Constable to raise a Kind of yearly Salary at the Expence of the publick. And
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your Committee are of Opinion, that if a proper Person was appointed by the Court for this Purpose
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of conveying Vagrants; and if Vagabonds apprehended in this Town, and adjoining Villages, were
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committed to
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, (as by far the greatest Part of the Expence to this County arises
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n the
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Beggars apprehended in this Town, and Villages adjacent) such Vagabonds might, under the Care
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of such Person, once a Week, or oftner if need were, be conveyed from thence by the Means of
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Stage Waggons Etc. to the great Saving of the Publik Money; but if this should not be thought a
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proper Method, your Committee are of Opinion that the passing of Vagrants might be contracted for
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by the Keeper of Bridewell, unde such Regulations as may be directed by this Court, so as to
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make it an Object worthy his Consideration; and the County may be greatly benefited.
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Proposal for
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Conveying
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Vagrants,
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AND WHEREAS Mr.
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James Sturgis Adams
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hath in Writing made the following Proposal; To Con-
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tract for the Conveying all such Rogues and Vagabonds by Passes, as shall be sent to the several
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Bridewells of
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, and
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in the
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, as well
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as such Vagabonds as shall be directed through the
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and the said City, in the Way
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to their respective Settlements, who shall be lodged either at
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, or such other Place in Town
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as shall be appointed by the said Justices; that is to say,
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That the said Sturgis Adams will provide himself with a Covered Cart and proper Horses, and cear
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the Bridewells of all such Vagabonds whose Passes are there lodged, as well as those other Vagrants
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whose Destination it through this County and the said City, from the Place where they shall be
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lodged in Town, twice every Week; that is to say, those whose Destination is to the North, on one
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Day every Week; and those to the
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, on some other Day every Week, and safely de-
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liver such Vagabonds to the several Parishes and Places they are destined to by their Passes, for the
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Sum of Ten pounds a Month, to be paid Monthly, and he Allowance of Six-pence for the Sub-
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sistance of every Vagrant in their Passage. the said Sum of Six-pence to be inserted in the Certificate,
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and payable by the Trea
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said Ad
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with
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some Magistrate of the Delivery of such Vagabond And the said Adams engages to deliver, on the
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County Day of every Sessions in
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, and to every Quarter Sessions at
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, a true List
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of the Names of such Vagabonds who have been conveyed by him between Session and Sessions, di-
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stinguishing the
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or other Place from whence such Vagabonds were taken, the Date of the
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Pass, the Place where delivered, Place of Settlement of Such Vagrants, and the Name of the Ma-
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gistrate ho signed the Pass, and, if required, will verify such List upon Oath.
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And the said Adams is willing to contract for such Time, and under such other Regulations, as that
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seem meet to the Courts of Sessions of the said County and City and Liberty, and will give undeniabe
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Security to perform his Contract, if required.
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Now, upon reading and considering the said Report and Proposals, this Court is of Opinion, that a
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considerable Saving of Expence, in passing and conveying of such Rogues and Vagabonds, will arise o
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this County by the Regulations pointed out by the said Committee, and conveying Rogues and Va-
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gabonds according to the said Proposal. THIS COURT doth therefore approve of the same, and doh
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hereby appoint the said
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to convey all such Rogues and Vagabonds according to
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his said Proposal, for the Space of one Year, to commence from Monday the 25th Day of July Instant,
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and doth agree, that, upon the said
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's due Performance of all the Matters concerned
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in his said Proposal, there shall be paid to him, by the Treasurer of this County, after the Rate of every
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Pounds a Month, over and besides the Allowance of Six-pence a Head for the Subsistance of every
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such Rogue or Vagabond in their Passage, to be inserted in the Certificate as in the said pro-
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posal is mentioned: And it is hereby recommended by this Court to the Justices of the F
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of
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this County, that they do, as far as in them lieth, promote the said Method of conveying of Rogues
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and Vagabonds according to the said Proposals; and
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that Purpose that the said Justices
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next the
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to whom Vagabonds
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brought in their Destination to
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County, would order such Vagabonds to be lodged in
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, to be from thence carried
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by the said
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, or any other
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, to the next County; and instead or
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ing the Allowance, as heretofore, in the Certificate, to mention only an Allowance of Six-pence for
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subsistance, according to the said Proposal. And the Keeper of
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is to allow such Vagabonds
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Two-pence a Day for their Subsistance during their Continuance there, and is to produce, at every
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Sessions, his Account of such Vagabonds, and the Expence of maintaining them, according to fu
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Al-
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lowance of Two pence a Day, during their Continuance in
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And this Court being of Opinion, that the Reward of Ten Shillings for the apprehending every
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Vagrant Beggar especially in Town and the Parishes next adjoining) is more than adequate the
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Time and Trouble of the Apprehender, and which has created Frauds, and brough a have six-
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pence upon the County, doth therefore recommend to the said Justices to ease the County i
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this
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respect by a frugal Distribution of such Reward, and to proportion it to the Time and Troble
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such Apprehender may have.
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