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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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the same This Court is of Opinion that the Trustees have not
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answered the matters Contained in the said Report, But
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that the said Answer is evasive and insufficinent, And this
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Court doth ratify and confirm the said Report of the said
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Justices of the Peace, And for preventing the like
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inconveniencys and abuses mentioned in the said
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Report for the future doth by vertue of the power given by the said Act Order as followeth
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That there be Twenty five Bushell of Ballast measured and
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put into every Cart that is employed on the Road and when
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the Cart is filled let the head Board Tail Board and Side
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Board be markt just above the Ballast with such a mark
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as shall be thought proper And that no Cart be suffered to
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Work that is not to markt. So that after the Carts are
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markt they may be filled without fraud
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Every Cart that is employed is paid Ten Shillings a day and
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should have two men to attend the Cart one to fill and the
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other to drive. So that he that is employed to fill must
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Stand Still till the return of the Cart. Therefore let Labourers
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be employed to fill the Carts thereby much would be saved
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for the Carts having but one Man may Work for Nine
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Shillings a day or less and the Work better done
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Care should be taken by the surveyors that each Cart
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carried as many Load within the time appointed as was
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reasonable. Whereas now the Course is to reckon five
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Load at most within the days Work where in many
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cases the distances being short the same Carts might
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with ease carry many more
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No Teams ought to work in Winter time but in Case of
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necessity because it is plain they are not able to do
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above half a days Work
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That no farmer be a Surveyor or if it be thought proper
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to make a Farmer a Surveyor that no Surveyor be
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suffered to Work his own Teams
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That no foreigners ought to be suffered to Work their Teams
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on the Roads and that only such Farmers that are chargeable
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to the Highways in the several parishes
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within the Turnpikes ought to be employed
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