By this Act of Parliament the Justices of the peace [..]
the County of Middlesex were authorized to appoint one or mo [..]
Overseer or Overseers for the management and direction of
such Convicts as should be sentenced to Labour on the River
Thames and the then Lords Commissioners of the Treasury [..]
fixed upon Mr. Duncan Campbell< no role > as the person to be appo [..]
their Lordships having it appeared previously agreed with he [..]
for the management and direction as well as the Support of suc [..]
Convicts as should be sentenced to hard Labour on the Thames
Justices in complyance with the Wishes and Recommendation
the Treasury appointed Mr. Duncan Campbell< no role > together with
Brother Neil Campbell< no role > (who was only appointed however for the safe Custody of the said Convicts in Case of the death of the said Duncan Camp [..] the Overseers as aforesaid. Mr. Duncan
Campbell< no role > at the same time giving the Justices to understand th [..]
Government was to defray all the Expences attending his appoint [..]

Lately however the Clerk of the peace for the
County of Middlesex The Clerk of the peace for the City and
Liberty of Westminster and the Clerk of the Goal Delivery to
the County as well as the Goaler or Keeper of His Majestys G [..]
of Newgate have claimed of the Treasurer for the County the
payment of several large Sums of Money arising by Fees sa [..]
due to them for such persons as are by their respective Courts sen [..]
hard Labour on the River Thames or in the Houses of Con [..]
amounting in the whole to a Guinea for each Convict being a
sentenced being a like Satisfaction with what they used to
receive from the Contractor for Transporting Convicts for the
Order of Transportation of any Offender

Theretofore these fees were paid by the Contin [..]
for the Transportation of Convicts but now by a Clause in the [..]
abovementioned the Payment is thrown upon the County Trea [..]
and must necessarily exhaust the County Revenues very
considerably

In Consequence of this Act of Parliament the
County of Middlesex is very heavily burthened in the maintena [..]
and Custody of great numbers of Convicts committed to the [..]
of Correction for Labour which Prisons have been at a very la [..]
Expence altered for and accommodated to their reception and
employment and which from the Daily increase of Convic [..]
must be still further Augmented there being no less than [..]
Hundred Convicts of the above kind in Clerkenwell Bride [..]
only

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