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recomend, they are then
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To convict them of Selling Drink without licence, and to
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levy to the use of the poor of the Parish the penalty of
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Twenty Shillings incurred thereby, But the Referrees are
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of Opinion that it is necessary that Such Conviction should
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be drawn upp in form and retorned to the next Sessions
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(Whether the same shall be a generall or Quarter Sessions)
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altho' Such retorn be not expressly required,
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2dly.
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If they continue to Sell Drink without licence; To Convict
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them again, whereby they are made lyable by this
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Statute to one Months imprisonmt. in the
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& there to be dealt with as lewd ible and disorderly persons
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But this Second Conviction must be also drawn up in
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form and retorned to the next Sessions
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3 dly.
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And if they Still offend in like manner to convict them
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a third time, Which will make them lyable to be comitted
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by the Justice or Justices convicting and to remain in the
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house of Correction
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untill by Order of the Justices at
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Sessions they shall be delivered from thence And one
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Justice may execute this Act, But each Conviction must
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be made on view Confession on Oath of two Witnesses.
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4 thly
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But as the Referrees conceive all these Convictions are
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necessary to be drawn up & retorned to the Sessions in forme
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In regard the Sessions cannot otherwise take notice that
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the party hath been convicted before, and therefore cannot
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execute the powers given them on the third Conviction,
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It is proposed that proper formes of these Severall
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Convictions be prepared by the Clerk of the peace and
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delivered to the Clerk of every Division who attends
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the Justices at their Special Sessions and likewise a proper
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forme of a Certificate or Return of the Recognizance &
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Offence on the said Statute of 5 & 6 Ed. 6 C. 25th.
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If all these methods prove insufficient Then the neighboring
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Justices may cause them to be prosecuted or Indicted (at
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the expence of the parish) for keeping disorderly houses, and
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have the Bills found on the Oyer, whereby on Conviccon
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