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Poor Relief Act 1662
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VI.President and Governors may apprehend Rogues and Vagabonds, and set them to work.
Quarter Sessions may signify to Privy Council the Names of such Rogues, &c. as they shall think fit to be transported.; Proceedings thereon.
And it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said President and Governours of the said Corporations for the time being or any two of them or to or for any person authorized and appointed by them or any two of them from time to time to apprehend or cause to be apprehended any Rogues Vagrants Sturdy Beggars or idle or disorderly persons within the said Cities and Liberties Places Divisions and Precincts and to cause them to be kept and set to worke in the several and respective Corporations or Workhouses And it shall and may be lawfull for the major part of the Justices of Peace in theire Quarter Sessions to signify unto His Majesties Privy Councell the names of such Rogues Vagabonds idle and disorderly persons and study Beggars as they shall thinke fitt to be transported to the English Plantations and upon the approbation of His Majesties Privy Council to the said [X1Justices of Peace signified which persons shall be transported it shall and may be lawfull for any two or more of the Justices of the Peace them to transporte or cause to be transported from time to time during the space of three yeares next ensuing the end of this present Session of Parliament] to any of the English Plantations beyond the Seas there to be disposed in the usual way of Servants for a terme not exceeding seaven yeares
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