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By the Vagrant Act

17 G.2 c.5 - "all
persons wandering abroad
and lodging in alehouses
barns, outhouses or in
the open are not giving
good account of themselves
and are persons" . . .
"wandering abroad and
begging, shall be deemed
rogues and vagabonds //2

By §4 It shall be
lawful for any person to
apprehend offenders against
their will . . .

By § 7. Where any
rogues or vagabonds . . .
are brought before any
Justice, each Justice shall
inform himself by the examination
upon oath of
the person apprehended,
or any other person,
of the condition and circumstances
of the person
so apprehended, and of
the parish where he was
last legally settled . . .
and . . . shall order all
such persons so apprehended
to be publickly whipt.
. . . . or . . . to be sent
to the House of Correction
untill the next General
or Quarter Sessions. or
for any less time ...
and after each whipping
or confinement,
. . . may cause such
person to be convey'd to the

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the place of their last
legal settlement; but
if it cannot be found,
then to the place of
their birth . . .

By §9. When any
offender against this
act is committed
to the House of Correction
untill the next General or Quarter
Sessions, and the
Justices . . .adjudge
such person a rogue
and vagabond . . they
may order [him] . . .
to be kept in the said
House of Corrections to
hard labour for any farther time not exceeding
six months

By §4. All persons
...who after having
been punished
as rogues and vagabonds
and discharged
again committ
any of the said
offences, shall be
deemed incorrigible
rouges.

By § 9. The Justices
at . . . Sessions
. . . may order such . . .
incorrigible rogues
to be kept in this
. . . House of Corrections
to Hard Labour
. . . for any further time

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time not exceeding
two years nor less
than six months
from the making such
order of sessions: and
during such confinement
to be corrected
by whipping in such
manner and at such
times and places within
their jurisdictions
as they think fit: and
such person may
afterwards be sent
away by such
. . . as aforesaid:
if such person,
being a male is above
the age of 12
years, the Justices. . .
may, at any time
before he is discharged,
send him to
be employed in
his Majesty's service
by the sea or land . . .

And in case any
such incorrigible rogue
. . .shall . . .offend
again in like manner
such person shall be
deemed guilty of
felony, and being
convicted, shall be
transported for any
time not exceeding
seven years.

Identifier: | JB/119/020/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
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Folio number	020	Info in main headings field	panopticon fiction provision
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