HC Deb 17 March 1830 vol 23 cc460-1
Mr. Littleton,

in presenting a Petition from the Grand Jury of the County of Stafford, complaining of the heavy charge incurred by passing Scotch and Irish Poor, said, that the charge had increased from 454l. in 1833, to 1,254l. in 1828, and to 2,023l. in 1829, and that it was progressively increasing. It was well known that a large number of the Vagrants, particularly the Scotch Vagrants, made a practice of travelling about the country, at other people's expense. After getting passed home, they found their way to Bristol, or some of the southern ports, and then again got passed home, repeating this pleasant excursion seven or eight times a-year, greatly, as he had shewn, to the increase of the expense in the different counties of England.

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