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and Six pence for each Vagabond for Sub-
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sistence, under the Regulations of the Order
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of Sessions of the 14th July, 1757 Etc.
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Your Committee Report, that they
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have examined the several Orders of Con-
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veying Vagabonds from the North, East, and
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West Parts of this County for two Years,
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viz. from July 1756, to July 1758, and the
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Charge amounts to the several Sums follow-
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ing.
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£.s.d.
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From the North 91 16 0
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East 116 8 0
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West 57 7 0
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265 11 0
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Medium of the two Years 132 15 6
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The Proposal of Mr. Adams being
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an Additional of £80. per ann. to this present
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Salary, supposing the future Charge to be
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equal to the last two Years, the Saving to the
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County will be £52.15s.6d. per ann. But it
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ought to be observed, that some Charge will
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arise for the Maintenance of such Vagabonds
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as may be lodged at
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, perhaps about Six-pence
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per Head, but on the other Side, as this Pro-
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posal is to remove the Vagabonds from the
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Bridewells and other Lodgments in Town
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four Times a Week instead of twice, by the
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present
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present Contract, one half of the Money
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now paid for maintaining Vagabonds will
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be saved, which your Committee apprehend
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will greatly over ballance the Charge at
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,
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and the Vagabonds will by this Proposal be
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more regularly conveyed, and incorrigible
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Rogues be more easily detected.
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Your Committee therefore duly con-
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sidering the Premises, are of Opinion, that
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the Complying with the said Proposal under
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the following Restrictions will prove advan-
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tageous to this County.
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That the said
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James Sturges Adams
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,
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clear the Bridewells of
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Clerkenwell
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of all such Vagabonds as shall be
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thereto committed, and whose Passes are sent
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down by the respective Magistrates four
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Times a Week, viz. those to the North and
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East, twice every Week, and those to the
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West, also twice every Week: And the said
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Adams do receive to his own House, all such
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Vagabonds as shall be brought to him by the
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Officers of
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, and
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the
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Dutchy Liberty of Lancaster
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, and con-
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vey and deliver all such Vagabonds to the
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Parishes and Places mentioned in the Orders
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of Conveying twice a Week to the West,
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and twice to the North and East.
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That the said
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James Sturges Adams
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,
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do twice every Week call at
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