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passing of Vagrants, the mode of conveyance either on Horse-back or in a
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Cart being by them specified in the original Pass; Whereas the same should
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have been inserted in and confined to the Certificate as a direction to the Con-
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stables within the particular Jurisdiction of the Magistrate giving such Certi-
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ficate, leaving the mode of conveyance through the other Districts in the rout
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of the Vagrants to the discretion of the Magistrates in such respective Dis-
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tricts; and this Committee apprehend that in such instances where the mode
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of conveyance has been prescribed by the original Passes, Gentlemen in several
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Counties through which the Vagrants have been afterwards passed have not ex-
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ercised the discretion which they had a right to do, by directing those Vagrants
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who were capable of travelling on foot to be conveyed in that manner, instead
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of continuing the mode of conveyance preseribed by the original Pass; and a
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very great additional expence has been incurred in the Counties of
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and
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Lancaster
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, by reason of adhering to such original mode of conveyance.
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THAT upon referring to the original Passes granted for the Conveyance of
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such Irish Vagrants as have been shipped from
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, it appears that many
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of them, who by the original Passes were ordered to be conveyed to
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Liverpool
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and shipped there, have been improperly carried to
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Chester
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and shipped at
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Park-
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, at the expence of the
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County of Chester
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; and on enumerating such Va-
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grants it appears that 381 have been to missent in six months, and that the
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additional charges to the Inhabitants of the
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by reason thereof
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who were by the original Passes directed to be shipped at
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have been
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improperly sent by
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Warrington
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to
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, and shipped there at the expence
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of the Inhabitants of the County of
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Lancaster
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; but it appears that in both
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instances the Vagrants so missent have been turned out of the direct line of con-
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veyance by the improper conduct of the Constables employed to convey them,
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who having frequently at the same time Vagrants to convey both to
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have, to save themselves the trouble of two journies, de-
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livered all such Vagrants at the same place contrary to the directions of the
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original Parties, and to the orders given to such Constables by the Magistrates
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of the
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upon the first arrival of the Vagrants within that
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County.
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THAT many Irish Vagrants who ought to be sent to Ireland by the Port of
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and sent to
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out of
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Devonshire,
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and from the
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Cities of London and
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Westminster
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, and from other parts of the Kingdom
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nearer to the
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than to
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or
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, contrary to the
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Provisions of the Stat. of the 17th Geo. II. And it appears that several of the
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Magistrates who grant Passes generally omit to insert in the Examinations of Va-
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grants on the original Passes being granted the name of the place or places in
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to which such Vagrants ought to be sent.
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