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<p n="2033"> THE COMMITTEE of the MAGISTRATES of the respective<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50809_geo1769">COUNTIES of CHESTER</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50809_geo1770">LANCASTER</rs>
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, appointed by<lb></lb>
the COURTS Of QUARTER SESSIONS OF THE PEACE for the said re-<lb></lb>
spective Counties, for taking into Consideration the present<lb></lb>
Mode of Maintaining, Conveying, and Shipping Vagrants in<lb></lb>
the said Counties, and the EXPENCES attending the same;<lb></lb>
to reduce such Expences, having met at Warrington on the<lb></lb>
Fifteenth Day of MARCH and the Nineteenth Day of May,<lb></lb>
1785, DO make the following REPORT of their PROCEED-<lb></lb>
INGS to the respective Courts of Quarter Sessions of the Peace<lb></lb>
in the said several Counties, viz.</p>
<p n="2034">That it appears to this Committee,</p>
<p n="2035">THAT during the space of three years ending the 7th day of October, 1783,<lb></lb>
the number of Vagrants conveyed through the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50809_geo1771">County of Chester</rs>
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has <lb></lb>
been 7925, of this number 4686 have been Irish vagrants, tha the expence<lb></lb>
of maintaining and conveying, such Vagrants in general, and shipping such of<lb></lb>
them as were Irish Vagrants has amounted to £3603:18:1, and that the ex-<lb></lb>
pence of maintaining, conveying, and shipping of such Irish Vagrants only has<lb></lb>
during that period been £2142:8:8½.</p>
<p n="2036">THAT by a particular account taken of the number of Vagrants of main-<lb></lb>
tained conveyed and shipped, and of the expences of such maintenance, con-<lb></lb>
veying and shipping in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50809_geo1772">County of Chester</rs>
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for one year ending the 5th day<lb></lb>
of October 1784, the whole number of Vagrants passed has been 3743, of <lb></lb>
which 2102 have been Irish Vagrants, and of that number 1170 have been<lb></lb>
shipped at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50809_geo1773">Park-gate</rs>
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, and 932 have been conveyed through the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50809_geo1774">County of <lb></lb>
Chester</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50809_geo1775">Warrington</rs>
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, and from thence to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50809_geo1776">Liverpool</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="2037">THAT the general expence of maintaining and conveying all such Vagrants<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50809_geo1777">County of Chester</rs>
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has been £1500:19:10½, and that the expence of<lb></lb>
maintaining, conveying and shipping the said Irish Vagrants only in the <lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50809_geo1778">County of Chester</rs>
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has been £974:13:11½.<lb></lb>
THAT</p>
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