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any parish, township, or place, from whence 
they have been legally removed by order 
of two justices of the peace, and shall there 
become chargeable, without producing a” 
certificate owning them to be settled else- 
where; and ail common prostitutes or 
night-walkers wandering in the public 
streets or public highways, not giving a 
satisfactory account of themselves; shall be 
deemed idle and disorderly persous; and it 
shall and may be lawful for any justice of 
the peace to commit such offenders (being 
thereof convicted before him, by his own 
view, or by his, her, or their, own confes- 
sion, or by the oath of one or move credible 
witness or witnesses) to the House of Cor- 
rection, there to Le kept to hard labour tor 
any time not excceding one calendar 
month. 
All persons going about as gatherers of 
alms, uider false pretence of loss by fire 
or by other casualty, or as collectors under 
any false pretence, ali bear-wards, all com- 
mon stage-players, and all persons who 
shall for hire, gain, or reward, act, repre- 
sent, or perform, or cause to be performed, 
any interlude, or eutertainment, or enter- 
tainments of tie stage, or any part or parts 
therein, such persons not being authorized 
by law; all persons pretending to he gipsies ; 
all persons pretending to tell fortunes, or 
using any subtle craft, means, or device, by 
palinistry or otherwise, to deceive and im- 
pose on any of his Majesty’s subjects, or 
playing or betting at any unlawful game; 
and all persons who run away and leave 
their wives or children chargeable to any 
parish, township, or place;. and all petty 
chapmen and pedlars wandering abroad, not 
being duly ficensed, or otherwise autho- 
rized by law; and all persons wandering 
abroad, and lodging in alehouses, barns, 
outhouses, or in the open air, or under 
tents, or in carts or wagvons, and not giv- 
ing a good account of themselves: and all 
persons openly exposing or exhibiting in 
any street, road, public place, or highway, 
any indecent exhibition, or openly and in- 
decently exposing their persons; and all 
other persons wandering abroad, or 
placing themselves in streets, public places, 
highways, courts, or passages, to beg or 
gather alms, or causing or procuring, or 
encouraging, any child or children so to do, 
or endeavonring, by the exposure of 
wounds or deformities, to effect the same 
purpose; and all persons who shall be ap- 
prehended having in possession any pick- 
lock key, crow, jack, bit, or other imple- 
ment, with intent feloniously to break and 
enter into any dwelling house, warehouse, 
coach-house, stable, or outbuilding; or 
having in possession any gun, pistol, 
hanger, cutlass, bludgeon, or other offen- 
sive weapon, with intent to assault any 
yerson Or persons, Or commit any other 
legal act; or who shall be found in or 
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upon any dwelling-house, warehouse, 
coach-house, stable, or outhouse, or area, 
or in any inclosed yard, garden, or place, 
and shall not be able to give a good ac- 
count of themselves; or who shall frequent 
any river, canal, or navigable stream, dock 
or basin, or any quay or warehouse near 
or adjoining thereto, or the avenues to 
any such quay or warehouse, or the streets 
or highways leading thereto, or any place 
of public resort, the avenues leading 
thereto, or the streets, highways, or places 
adjacent, with intent to commit felony on 
the persons or property of any his Ma- 
Jesty’s subjects; and all persons imposing 
or endeavouring to impose upon any 
churciiwarden or overseer of the poor, or 
upon any charitable institution or private 
individual, by a false and fraudulent re- 
presentation, either verbally or in writ- 
ing, with a view to obtain money or some 
other advantage or benefit; shall be deemed 
rogues and vagabouds, within the true 
intent and meaning of this Act. 
All persons apprehended as rogues and 
vagabonds, aul escaping from the person 
or persons apprehending them, or refusing 
to go before a justice or justices of the 
peace, to be examined before such justice 
or justices, or knowingly giving a false 
account of themselves on such examina- 
tion, alter warning giving them of their 
punishment; and all persons wko shall 
break or escape ont of any gaol or house 
of correction, before the expiration ef the 
term for which they were committed or 
ordered to be confined by virtue of this 
Act, or who being charged with any of- 
fence against this Act, and being bound by’ 
recognizance, in manuer herein-after men- 
tioned, to appear at the next general or 
quarter sessions of the peace, shall neg- 
Ject to appear accerdingly; and all persons 
who, afier having been adjudged to be 
rogues apd vagabonds, and then dis- 
charged, shall again commit any offence 
under this Act; shall be deemed incorri- 
gibie-vogues, within the true intent and 
meaning of this Act. 
Any person may apprehend offenders.— 
A penalty of 20s. on constables, &c. neg- 
leeting their duty, and on persons refusing 
to apprehend offenders.—Reward of ds. 
for apprehending a vagrant, 
Justices to examine persons apprehend- 
ed, and, if matter be proved, to commit 
them.— Persons committed to be kept to 
hard lJabour.—Justices may commit or 
discharge persons apprehended. — Power 
to bail persons charged with acts of 
vagrancy. 
All vagrants to be searched, and trunks, 
bundles, &c. to be inspected, 
Effects found upon vagrants to be sold, 
and applied towards the expences of 
maintaining, &c, 
Justices may bind persons by recogni- 
zance 
