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from the great Expence arising from the unlimited uncontrouled wandering of the
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Vagabond Poor: And your Committee are of Opinion that the Season of the year
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proper to enforce the Execution of this Act is now coming on as those Vagrants who
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are able to work will in the Fields find ready Imployment.
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As the Publication of the Clauses of so much of the Vagrant Act as relates to
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the apprehending Beggars by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London and their
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Resolution to put the said Act into strict Execution has produced the desired
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Effect by clearing the Streets of that Metropolis from Beggars, your Committee
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are of Opinion that this Court adopting the same Plan with such Additions and
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Alterations as shall by them be thought proper way in a great Measure produce
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the like Effect in this County; but your Committee apprehand that if any part of
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the Bills of Mortality be left an Asylum for the Retreat of Beggars the
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Nusance and the Charge arising to this County from it will in a Degree
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continue as such Beggars will be always ready to make Excursions from
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their Harbour; your Committee therefore think that it might probably give a
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finishing Stroke to this Complaint if the Magistrates of the County of
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Surry would concur in taking the like Measures and publishing the like
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Resolutions with the Lord Mayor and this Court especially in respect to
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the Town of Lambeth and Borough of Southwark: And your Committee
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apprehend it would be of Service to the Publick to ask such Concurrence.
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your Committee being also convinced that most of the Beggars in the
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Kingdom do at times resort to this Metropolis, being led by various
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Motives, some through Curiosity, others by hope of Gain; and that they
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are well acquainted that upon being apprehended they will be provided for in their
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return Home by a Pass without Punishment; are of Opinion that the Resolutions
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this Court may come to in this respect should not only be affixed up in proper Places
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about the several Parishes in this Town and published in the Daily Papers but
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also that those Resolutions should be affixed up in the Towns and Villages in this
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County near the several Reads leading to London and published in such Evening
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Papers as may best circulate the Knowledge of such Resolutions throughout
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the Kingdom whereby Vagabonds in the distant Countries being informed that
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certain Punishment and as Gain will attend their Peregrination they may be
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deterred from the base Attempt of coming here.
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But your Committee apprehend that how judicious soever the Construction of any
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Plan to exterminate this almost inveterate Evil may be, and however desirous and
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vigilant the Magistrates may likewise be in their several Districts to carry the
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Orders and Resolution of this Court into Execution, it is certain that without an
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