Proposals for maintaining of the poor, and discouraging of vagabonds, and vagrant and sturdy beggars; humbly offered to the consideration of the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the Honourable the Lord Provost and magistrates of the city of Edinburgh, and the justices of peace of the shires of Edinburgh, Linlithgow and Haddingtoun [sic]; to the effect, that the whole may be under their cognizance, at the next quarter-sessions.

Date:

1726]