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By adjournment Thursday 15th Janry 1778
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Ordered that
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one of the Overseers
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for directing and Managing the Convicts sentenced to Hard Labour on the
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do attend this Court on Thursday the nineteenth day of
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and that he
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be desired to being with him Mr D. Aicken the person employed by him
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as Surgeon on Board the Vessels in which the said Convicts are Confined
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By adjournment same Day
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The following Report from the Committee appointed at the last Session
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of the Peace holden for this County to examine into the undue and
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for this County as have grossly
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Court the same was read as follows
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in their General Quarter Session Assembled
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for this County
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That having taken into Consideration the Order of Reference
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Vizt To examine and inquire into any undue and illegal practices of
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such Magistrates as have grossly misbehaved themselves in the execution
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as well as of any other that may be
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Your Committee proceeded to the Examination of several
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Witnesses upon Oath as also to the Inspection of several Papers which
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two Credible persons prosecuted
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one
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the Servant of the said
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for Felony
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