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<p n="27">To the Worshipfull <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50463_n27-1">Thos. Lane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50463_occ9">Esqr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50463_occ10">Chairman</rs>
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and the Rest of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50463_occ11">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in their Quarter Sessions<lb></lb>
Assembled.</p>
<p n="28">The Proposals of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50463_n28-1">JamesSturgis Adams</rs>
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to Contract<lb></lb>
for the Conveying all such Rogues and Vagabonds By Passes as<lb></lb>
shall be sent to the several Bridewells of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50463_geo25">Clerkenwell</rs>
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And <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50463_geo26">Tothill<lb></lb>
Fields</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50463_geo27">City and Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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As well as such<lb></lb>
Vagabonds as shall be directed thorough the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50463_geo28">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and the said City in the way to their respective Settlements who<lb></lb>
shall be Lodged either at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50463_geo29">Bridewell</rs>
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or such other Place in Town as<lb></lb>
shall be appointed by the said Justices</p>
<p n="29">That the said Sturgis Adams will Provide himself with a Covered Cart &<lb></lb>
Proper Howes and Clear the Bridewells of all such Vagabonds whose Passes are<lb></lb>
there Lodged as well as those other Vagrants whose destination is thorough this<lb></lb>
County & the said City from the Place where they shall be lodged in Town twice every<lb></lb>
Week that is to say those whose Destination is to the North on one Day every week<lb></lb>
and these to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50463_geo30">South and West</rs>
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on some other day every Week and Safely<lb></lb>
deliver such Vagabonds to the Several Parishes and Places they are destined<lb></lb>
to by their Passes For the Sum of Ten Pounds a Month to be Paid Monthly<lb></lb>
and the allowance of Six pence for the subsistence of every Vagrant in their<lb></lb>
Passage the said Sum of Six pence to be incerted in the Certificate and Payable<lb></lb>
by the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50463_occ12">Treasurer or high Constables</rs>
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upon the said Adams Producing such<lb></lb>
certificate with a Receipt upon the Back of the Delivery of the Vagrant &<lb></lb>
Oath made by the sd. Adams before some Magistrate of the Delivery of such Vagabond<lb></lb>
And the said Adams Engages to deliver on the County day of every Sessions<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50463_geo31">Middlesex</rs>
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& to every Quarter Session at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50463_geo32">Westminster</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50463_geo32" type="placeName" value="Westminster"></interp>
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a true list of the<lb></lb>
Names of such Vagabonds who have been conveyed by him Between Session<lb></lb>
and Sessions distinguishing the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50463_geo33">Bridewell</rs>
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or other Place from whence such<lb></lb>
Vagabonds were taken the date of the Pass the Place where delivered Place of<lb></lb>
Settlement of such Vagrants and the Name of the Magistrate who signed<lb></lb>
the Pass and if required will Verify such list upon Oath.</p>
<p n="30">And the said Adams is Willing to Contract for such time & under<lb></lb>
such other regulations as shall seem meet to the Courts of Session of the<lb></lb>
said County and City and Liberty And will give undeniable Security to<lb></lb>
Perform his Contract if required<lb></lb>
July the 14th. 1757</p>
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