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By adjournment Thursday Sixteenth Octr. 1777
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The following Report of the Committee appointed to carry
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being laid before this Court and the same being
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To His Majestys
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That having taken into Consideration the
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to prayers and having upon
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and other purposes It is the Opinion of the Committee that the
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same Bells may be Conveniently used for the present for giving the prisoner
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notice of the time of devine Service
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The said Committee do also Report that upon
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Consideration of the order of Reference concerning the fixing some certain
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hour or hours when prayers shall be read in the said Prisons they are of
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Opinion that prayers should be read by the Chaplain on such days as
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he is directed in his appointment to Officiate at the prisons at the hour
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of Twelve and that the Keepers of the prisons should cause a Bell to be
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properly and Constantly rung in their respective prisons some little time
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before such hour for the purpose of Congregating their respective prisoners
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in the Chapel and that they do also take care that none of their prisoners do
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The said Committee do further Report That
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