October 1777

Treasury of Six Pounds which he Expended in the Execution of the
sentence of two persons Convicted before one of his Majestys Justices
the peace for this County of Killing deer on his Majestys Chase of Inf [..]
by setting the said Persons in the pillory pursuant to the said Conviction
It is the Opinion of the Committee that as the Convictions were
made at the Instance of his Majestys Surveyor of Enfield Chase and
the Expense incurred for the preservation of his Majestys Deer there [..]
Elmore ought to apply by petition to the Lords Commissioners of his
Majestys Treasury for the payment of the said Charges

The said Committee also Report that having
taken into Consideration the Claim made by Benjamin Deacon< no role > Clerk [..]
the Goal Delivery for this County of Six Shillings and Two pence for
each person who has been ordered and adjudged by that Court to be kept [..]
hard Labour in the raising sand Soil & Gravel from and Cleansing [..]
River Thames or any other Service for the benefit of the Navigation of [..]
said River pursuant to the Statute [..] n that Case made and provided
Intituled "An Act. to Authorise for a limited time the punishment
"by hard labour of Offenders who for certain Crimes are or shall become [..]
"liable to be Transported to any of his Majestys Colonies or plantations
as well as for such persons as have been Ordered and Adjudged to be sent
to the House of Correction at Clerkenwell (being a proper place of
Confinement) there to be kept to hard labour pursuant to the same
Statute and it appearing by the said Act that the Clerk of Assize Clerk [..]
of the peace or other Clerk of the Court and the Sheriff a Goaler shall be p [..]
by the Treasurer of the County the like Satisfaction as hath beer usually
paid for the order of Transportation of any Offender The said Committee
interrogated Mr. Deacon upon the grounds of his Claim and he hav [..]
asserted that the said for of Six Shillings and Five pence was an Ancid [..]
and accustomed for received and taken from and paid to him and his
predecessors by the several Contractors for the Transportation of fel [..]
and others convicted at the Court of General Goal Delivery for the said
County and they also Called to their assistance Mr. Duncan Campbell< no role >
the late Contractor for the transportation of Convicts and present
Contractor for keeping the Convicts to hard labour on the River Tham [..]
from close information it appeared that before the Act of parliament b [..]
abovementioned took place he received from Government the Sum of Five
pounds for the Transportation of every Convict sentenced to Transport [..]
by the several Courts holding Criminal Jurisdiction within and for [..]
County