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<p n="1022">" Felons and persons Returning from Transportation is the<lb></lb>
" Extream difficulty which the persons apprehending and<lb></lb>
" prosecuting such Offenders, meet wish even in the usual<lb></lb>
" Forms to be passed thro for Obtaining the Rewards due to<lb></lb>
" them as well by his Majestys Gracious proclamation as by<lb></lb>
" act of parliament for the apprehending and Convicting<lb></lb>
" the Offenders therein mentioned Respectively.</p>
<p n="1023"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">2</note>
In the next place Your Committee Observing upon<lb></lb>
several of the Returns from the petty Sessions's above<lb></lb>
mentioned, That very ill and suspicions people were<lb></lb>
frequently taken by the peace Officers out of publick<lb></lb>
Houses and brought before Justices and by them<lb></lb>
Committee as the Case required, But not observing That<lb></lb>
Notice was taken by the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ1483">Justices of the Keepers</rs>
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of such<lb></lb>
Disorderly houses, or a method taken for their punishment<lb></lb>
or suppression, Which the Committee think of the greatest<lb></lb>
Consequence to the publick and the best End to begin at,<lb></lb>
It being certain That by finding such harbouring places<lb></lb>
old Offenders are brought and Kept together and thereby<lb></lb>
Encouraged in a society of Wickedness and many young<lb></lb>
and unwary persons are drawn in and by degrees seduced<lb></lb>
and harden'd to the same Courses - Your Committee did<lb></lb>
not only Recommend it to all the Justices then present,<lb></lb>
But did Unanimously Agree to Report it to this Court as fit<lb></lb>
to be Recommended by the Court to the Justices of the<lb></lb>
peace of this County acting in their several divisions,<lb></lb>
That where they find (upon occasion of persons being<lb></lb>
brought before them out of publick Houses) That there<lb></lb>
is a probable Evidence of the said Houses or any of them<lb></lb>
being Disorderly houses and Indictable or fit to be<lb></lb>
Indicted as such, They do for the future make it a Rule to<lb></lb>
bind over the Sleepers of such houses to the next sessions<lb></lb>
in order to their being respectively prosecuted as the<lb></lb>
case may require for the same.</p>
<p n="1024"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">(3)</note>
It appeared likewise to your Committee by several of the<lb></lb>
aforesaid Returns That many of the said publick as well<lb></lb>
as private houses harboured great numbers of loose idle<lb></lb>
disorderly and Suspicions people as Lodgers or Immortes to<lb></lb>
such a degree as to have in same of them three or four</p>
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