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<p n="990">By adjornment on Thursday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55602_date126">15th. Day of October, 1747</rs>
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<p n="991"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order concerning the<lb></lb>
putting in Execution the<lb></lb>
Acts of Parliamt. agt.<lb></lb>
Horseracing and Squibb<lb></lb>
throwing.}</note>
Information having been given unto this Court that divers persons<lb></lb>
have for Some time past made Matches for Horseracing and that several<lb></lb>
Horses have run Races in a Field called White Conduit Field in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1591">Parish of Islington</rs>
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and elsewhere in the County of Middx whereby<lb></lb>
great Numbers of working & labouring People have been Seduced<lb></lb>
to resort thither and lose both their time and their Money in laying of<lb></lb>
Wages which tends very much to the impoverishmt. of themselves<lb></lb>
and their Familys, and great Tumults and Disorders must and<lb></lb>
will happen by means of the great Resort to Such Horse Races,<lb></lb>
And the Said Horse racing having happened upon a false<lb></lb>
Suggestion that the late Act of Parliament for preventing the<lb></lb>
excessive increase of Horse races is expired, This Court to the intent<lb></lb>
that the Said Act of Parliament may be duly observed Doth<lb></lb>
declare that the Same is a perpetual Act, and is now in full force,<lb></lb>
And whereas a great many disorderly Persons have of late<lb></lb>
years taken upon themselves to throw Squibbs (whereby Several<lb></lb>
Mischiefs have happened to divers Persons) upon a false<lb></lb>
Suggestion that the Act of Parliament for preventing the<lb></lb>
throwing of Squibbs is expired, This Court for preventing for<lb></lb>
the future Such Mischiefs Doth Declare that the Said Act<lb></lb>
of Parliament is a perpetual Act and now in full force, And<lb></lb>
this Court doth recommend it to<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Some Gentlemen in the Comission<lb></lb>
of Peace for this County to meet from time to time in their<lb></lb>
respective Divisions, and to take care that the Said respective<lb></lb>
Acts of Parliament be put in Execution against all Persons<lb></lb>
who Shall offend against the Same, and that they do from time<lb></lb>
to time give proper Orders relating thereto, And this Court<lb></lb>
doth Order that the above Resolutions be printed in one of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1110">publick News papers</rs>
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for the better Notification thereof,</p>
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