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<p n="476">October 1784</p>
<p n="477"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Considn of the Letter<lb></lb>
from the Clerk of the<lb></lb>
peace for <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo300">Cheshire</rs>
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<lb></lb>
adjourned}</note>
It is further ordered that the consideration of the other<lb></lb>
matters contained in the said Report and also the Letter from the<lb></lb>
Clerk of the peace for Cheshire respecting the conveyance of Irish<lb></lb>
Vagrants presented to the Court at the last Session be (for want of<lb></lb>
time to consider the same) further adjourn'd until the County day<lb></lb>
of the next Session to be holden for this County.</p>
<p n="478">By adjournment same day</p>
<p n="479"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Baker continued</note>
It is ordered that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55609_n479-1">William Watherston</rs>
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be employed<lb></lb>
to serve the Prisoners in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo301">New Prison</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo302">Clerkenwell</rs>
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and the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo303">House of Correction</rs>
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there with Bread until the County Day of the<lb></lb>
now next Session.</p>
<p n="480">By adjournment same day</p>
<p n="481">A Petition from <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55609_n481-1">Henry Adams</rs>
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Contractor for the<lb></lb>
conveying Vagrants in thorough and out of this County being<lb></lb>
laid before the Court of which the following is a Copy.</p>
<p n="482"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Petition of Henry<lb></lb>
Adams Contractor<lb></lb>
for conveying Va-<lb></lb>
grants</note>
To the Worshipful <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55609_n482-2">William Mainwaring</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55609_occ152">Esquire</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55609_occ153">Chairman</rs>
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and the rest of his Majesty's Justices of<lb></lb>
the Peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo304">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in their General<lb></lb>
Quarter Session assembled</p>
<p n="483">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55609_n483-1">Henry Adam</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
Humbly Sheweth</p>
<p n="484">That in April 1774 Your Worships Petitioner<lb></lb>
succeeded his late Father James Sturges Adams as Contractor<lb></lb>
for conveying Vagrants in through and out of the County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo305">Middlesex</rs>
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during the three years immediately succeeding the<lb></lb>
said period Your Petitioner upon an average removed yearly<lb></lb>
1245 Vagrants by virtue of 860 Passes that the Number of<lb></lb>
Vagrants since removed by him has greatly increased and<lb></lb>
that during the last three years your Petitioner hath removed<lb></lb>
upon an average 2982 Vagrants by virtue of 2122 Passes</p>
<p n="485">That your Petitioner has an allowance of<lb></lb>
under his Contract of £250 a year and other allowance<lb></lb>
for the Subsistance of the Vagrants till passed and while</p>
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