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April 1786
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Resolved it appears to this Committee That the Number
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of Vagrants passed in through and out of this County are of late Years
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greatly increased
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Resolved it appears to this Committee That the expence
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of apprehending passing and relieving Vagrants has greatly increased
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and become a heavy charge upon this County the same having amounted
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to the Sum of 1857 for One Year Ending in April 1785
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Resolved it appears to this Committee by the information
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of the said Contractor that several persons have been passed from the
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City of London
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dangerously Ill some of which have died in his
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Hands and in the Hospital before they could be moved by him out
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of this County and that many are passed as Vagrants who do not appear
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to be Objects of the Vagrants Laws.
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Resolved it appears to this Committee That the
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Increase of Vagrants aries from the great Numbers coming from
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the
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and the Ease with which Passes are there obtained
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Your Committee are therefore of Opinion
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That if no Persons were passed as Vagrants but such as are the true
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Objects of the Vagrants Laws and if they were passed agreeable to the
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directions of the Act of the 17th. Geo:2nd.. it would be a certain means of
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decreasing the Numbers and relieving this County of the heavy charge
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now so justly complained of.
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And Your Committee Further Report
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That having taken into Consideration the Reference to them
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made in December Session last Vizt. "to Consider the most proper mode to discontinue
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the Tap House at
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New Prison
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and of laying the same into the Keepers House and
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making a Window or other proper opening there from to look into the Prison" Your
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Committee viewed the Prison and the Tap House and Caused Mr. Rogers ( the Surveyor)
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to attend them with the Plans of the said Prison and the Tap House and Ground thereto
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adjoining and having inspected the same Your Committee are of Opinion
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that the most proper way of making the intended alteration would be To Enlarge
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the Tap House over
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the Passage
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to the present Keepers House in the One Pair of
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Stairs floor next to the Mens Yard and to make an opening in the Boundary
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Wall of the Mens Yard for a Window with a Strong Iron Grating before the
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same .
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