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THAT the Justices' Clerks in several Counties are allowed out of the County
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Rates different Fees from 1s. to 3s. upon the granting and endorsing of each
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Pass; but that no such fees have been for the last 25 years allowed to be taken
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in the
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, and the same regulation having been approved of by
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the Justices of the County of
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Lancaster
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, they have since adopted it; nor are the
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Clerks of the Peace
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for either of the Counties of
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allowed
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any fees for recording Passes. That the fees paid to the justices' Clerks upon
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the original issuing of Passes, and endorsing them as the pass through each
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Limit or particular Jurisdiction (considering the great number of Passes which
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amount to a large sum, and very much increase the expences attending he
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passing of Vagrants; and the said fees are of such considerable amount that this
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circumstance the Committee has great reason to believe induces persons interested
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in the apprehension of Vagrants, and benefited in proportion to the number
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which are passed, to prevail upon many Irish labourers and other persons, to
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apply for Passes, who would otherwise have travelled at their own expence.
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THAT upon the foregoing state of facts two objects of consideration
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seem to arise: one
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representing
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us Risking the great and general expence of passing
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Vagrants of all descriptions; the other relating to the maintenance,
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passing and shipping of Irish Vagrants only.
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THAT in the general expence of passing Vagrants every County is
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more or less concerned.
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THAT the burden arising from Irish Vagrants falls in some degree
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upon the Counties remote from the Ports where such Vagrants are
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shipped, is more sensibly felt by others in proportion as their distance
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from Ireland diminishes, but falls most heavily upon the Counties of
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which places all or by much the greatest Part of the Irish Vagrants
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are sent from whence they are shipped, and where they are maintained
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until they are put on board.
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THAT although the great and increasing expence of maintaining,
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conveying and shipping of Irish vagrants was probably the principal
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reason for the appointment of this Committee; yet it appears to them,
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that the object of their inquiry will be best answered by recommend-
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ing that mode of redress which will be attended with the most gene-
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ral benefit, and therefore they have extended their attention to the
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forming a plan for the reduction of the expences respecting Vagrants
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of every denomination; for the attaining which end there appears to
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be the choice of two modesOne by application to Parliament
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The other by representation to the Magistrates of other Counties, in
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order that the directions of the Statute of the 17th Geo. II. before-
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mentioned may be better attended to.
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THAT
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