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Section XIV Where no Mayor, &c. then the Constable to provide the same, and be reimbursed out of Rates for passing Rogues and Vagabonds, imposed by 13 & 14 Car. II. c. 12.

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Provided always That in any Towne in the Places aforesaid where there shall bee noe Mayor Bailiffe or other Magistrate above a Constable the Constable Tythingman or Headborough of the Parish shall provide the same and bee reimbursed out of the Rates to bee charged in the Parish whereof hee X1 is Officer for passing Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars to the House of Correction by virtue of one Act made in the Thirteenth and Foureteenth Yeares of King Charles the Second intituled An Act for the better Relief of the Poor which Payment by virtue of this Act shall bee included in the said Rates.

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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: an O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]