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horses for carrying such poor people as are unable to travel 

 on foot to the prison, because the people in the country 

 refuse to lend their horses unless they are paid at an 

 exorbitant rate, the Justices granted warrant to the con- 

 stables to press for horses for carrying vagrants to the 

 Tolbooth of Dumfries, payment to be one penny for each 

 mile and one penny half-penny if the ovirner sends a person 

 along with the horse to take care of the same. 



In June, 1753, a committee was appointed, which was to 

 meet monthly in Dumfries, to look after the working of the 

 measures regarding the poor, in consequence of a represen- 

 tation that the constables had not been so diligent as they 

 ought to be. The committee was especially directed to 

 consider the proper measures from time to time to render 

 the said scheme effectual ; and particularly to take into 

 their consideration the conduct of the several parishes as to 

 the maintenance of their poor. 



Inconvenience having been felt in the county through the 

 suppression of vagrancy checking the travelling tinkers and 

 braziers, braziers who had a settled residence, could produce 

 certificates of character, and find caution for good behaviour, 

 were to be licensed to travel through the county and exercise 

 their trade. 



John Morrinc, in Braccoch, was fined £5 for refusing to 

 accept the office of constable for the parish of Keir : the 

 money was apportioned for different purposes, among which 

 were thirty shillings to Mr Riddell of Glenriddell to be 

 applied for placing a mid pillar under the timber bridge at 

 Crossford ; and twenty shillings to the minister of the gospel 

 at Holywood, to be by him applied towards the support of 

 Mary Anderson, in that parish, disordered in her mind. 



On 7th May, 1754, warrant was granted for setting 

 Michael Lawson, a vagrant, and prisoner in the Tolbooth 

 of Dumfries, at liberty upon his enacting never to be seen 

 again within this shire. 



In October, 1757, the Justices considering that by the 

 blessing of God the harvest is happily gathered in and plenty 



