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<p n="1696">April 1786</p>
<p n="1697">From April Session 1775 to April Session 1776. 1307 Persons by 893 Passed<lb></lb>
April Session 1776 to April Session 1777. 1397 do. by 990 do.<lb></lb>
April Session 1777 to April Session 1778. 1450 do. by 1027 do.<lb></lb>
April Session 1778 to April Session 1779. 1806 do. by 1179 do.<lb></lb>
April Session 1779 to April Session 1780. 1392 do. by 956 do.<lb></lb>
April Session 1780 to April Session 1781. 1873 do. by 1321 do.<lb></lb>
April Session 1781 to April Session 1782. 2189 do. by 1589 do.<lb></lb>
April Session 1782 to April Session 1783. 2516 do. by 1701 do.<lb></lb>
April Session 1783 to April Session 1784. 3206 do. by 2375 do.<lb></lb>
April Session 1784 to April Session 1785. 4244 do. by 3329 do.</p>
<p n="1698">That your Committee having interrogated the said Contractor as<lb></lb>
to the Cause to which he attributed the great increase of Vagrants he<lb></lb>
Replied that he thought the same arose from the case with which Passes<lb></lb>
were obtained from the Magistrates of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo1049">City of London</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1699">That your Committee thinking this a Matter of Great<lb></lb>
Importance to this County did by Letter request the Lord Mayor and<lb></lb>
Aldermen of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo1050">City of London</rs>
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to appoint a time and Place for a<lb></lb>
Conference with your Committee on this Subject to which they received an<lb></lb>
Answer dated the 12th. of November last informing them that their request<lb></lb>
should be laid before the next Court of Aldermen. In Consequence of which<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55609_n1699-2">William Mainwaring</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55609_occ553">Esquire</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55609_occ554">Chairman</rs>
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of the Sessions in December last<lb></lb>
informed the Court that he had received a Letter from the Lord Mayor informing<lb></lb>
him that he had communicated to the Court of Aldermen the Letter he had<lb></lb>
received from the Committee and that the Court had desired the Lord Mayor<lb></lb>
to have an Interview with him on the Subject and in January last mr.<lb></lb>
Mainwaring informed the Court that he had seen the Lord Mayor on the<lb></lb>
subject of the Vagrants passed from the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo1051">City of London</rs>
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into this County and<lb></lb>
that his Lordship had promised to Inquire into the manner of passing the<lb></lb>
Vagrants and that the same should be corrected if any thing Improper was<lb></lb>
found to be Practiced therein, but no other Conference has yet been had<lb></lb>
Therefore Your Committee have thought it proper to Report to the<lb></lb>
Court the following Resolutions which have been Come to by them</p>
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