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