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By adjornment on Thursday the
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15th. Day of October, 1747
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Order concerning the
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putting in Execution the
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Acts of Parliamt. agt.
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Horseracing and Squibb
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throwing.}
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Information having been given unto this Court that divers persons
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have for Some time past made Matches for Horseracing and that several
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Horses have run Races in a Field called White Conduit Field in the
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Parish of Islington
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and elsewhere in the County of Middx whereby
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great Numbers of working & labouring People have been Seduced
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to resort thither and lose both their time and their Money in laying of
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Wages which tends very much to the impoverishmt. of themselves
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and their Familys, and great Tumults and Disorders must and
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will happen by means of the great Resort to Such Horse Races,
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And the Said Horse racing having happened upon a false
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Suggestion that the late Act of Parliament for preventing the
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excessive increase of Horse races is expired, This Court to the intent
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that the Said Act of Parliament may be duly observed Doth
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declare that the Same is a perpetual Act, and is now in full force,
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And whereas a great many disorderly Persons have of late
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years taken upon themselves to throw Squibbs (whereby Several
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Mischiefs have happened to divers Persons) upon a false
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Suggestion that the Act of Parliament for preventing the
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throwing of Squibbs is expired, This Court for preventing for
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the future Such Mischiefs Doth Declare that the Said Act
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of Parliament is a perpetual Act and now in full force, And
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this Court doth recommend it to
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Some Gentlemen in the Comission
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of Peace for this County to meet from time to time in their
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respective Divisions, and to take care that the Said respective
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Acts of Parliament be put in Execution against all Persons
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who Shall offend against the Same, and that they do from time
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to time give proper Orders relating thereto, And this Court
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doth Order that the above Resolutions be printed in one of the
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publick News papers
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