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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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unless it happens that there are not Farmers sufficient to be
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found on the Roads or that such Farmers refuse to work as
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cheap as Foreigners for it is but reasonable that as they pay
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to the Turnpike they should be preferred before foreigners
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That Marsh Halsted Edwards Shittle and all others that have
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bin detected of not doing their Duty and of carrying short Loads
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contrary to the Orders of the Trustees be not for the future
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employed in any Work relating to the Turn pike
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That the people inhabiting in the Parishes adjoining to the
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Road be employed in all the Works on the Road preferable
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to Foreigners they Working as cheap as Foreigners.
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That the Trustees (as is the Custome of other Turnpikes) do from
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time to time adjourn themselves to proper Houses adjoyning
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to the Roads that they may thereby have the better
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opportunity to look to the Amendment of the said Roads
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and to see that the officers do their Duty
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And it is Ordered by this Court that this present Order be
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forthwith transmitted to the said Trustees And that they do
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from henceforth observe the same and cause the same
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to be performed by their severall under Officers Agents
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and Servants And It is further Ordered by this Court
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that the said Trustees do cause an extract to be made from
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their severall Books of what Moneys have been received
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and paid for and on accompt of the said Turnpike and also
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a State of the said Turnpike with regard to the income thereof,
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and what year by Sumes are paid or to be paid to the several
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Treasurers Clerks Collectors and Surveyors or other
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Persons employed by the said Trustees, and also what
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Gravell Ballast or other materialls for the repair of the
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Highways hath been bought or contracted for, by whom,
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of whom, and at what prices, and what Debt's are due
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and owing from the said Trustees on accompt of the said
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Turnpike together with a List of the Names of all such
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Persons whose Teams have been or are employed by their
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Surveyors for repair of the said Highways and the places
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of their respective a boad, and the compositions that are or
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