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To his Majesties
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Justices of the peace
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for the County
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in their Generall Quarter Sessions
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Assembled.
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Report from the Comittee
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appointed to Consider of
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the present Laws for Regulating
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the making of Bricks & Tyles
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near
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In pursuance of an Order made at the Generall Quarter
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Sessions held on Thursday the tenth day of July last,
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Whereby it was referred to the Severall Justices therein
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named or to any Three of them, to Consider of the best
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methods for putting in Execution and rendring effectuall,
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the late Acts of parliament for Regulating the making
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of Bricks and Tyles within Fifteen Miles of London, Wee
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Whose Names are Subscribed being Five of the Said Justices
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and Referrees, having mett together Severall times at
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Hicks hall
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, And issued out our Sumons to the Searchers
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appointed by this Court, to give an Account of their
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proceedings, which having received from them, wee
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have leave to annex, But observing that it was too
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generall, Wee directed them to give a particular Account of
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the Names of all who had made any Bricks contrary to the
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Laws now in force, And also the Names and professions
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of all persons now under prosecution by their Direccons,
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And for what offences, that wee might be the better enabled
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to Judge of their Behaviour, But they have not hither to
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Complyed with our Directions therein,.
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Wee then proceeded to Consider what Sort of persons were
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most fitt to be appointed Searchers, and are unanimously
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of opinion That noe persons now using the Trade of a
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Brickmaker
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Bricklayer
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or Tyle maker are proper for this
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Imployment, In regard of the Ill use they may be
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tempted to make of their power in Streening themselves or
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partners, and oppressing others, in order to in gross the
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making and Sale of the unparliamentary Bricks & Tyles
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for their own profitt, as was notoriously practised under
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the first Brick Act by Some of those professions, But that
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other persons of Still and Judgment be chosen to be
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