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