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By this Act of Parliament the Justices of the peace
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Overseer or Overseers for the management and direction of
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such Convicts as should be sentenced to Labour on the
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Duncan Campbell
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as the person to be appo
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their Lordships having it appeared previously agreed with he
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for the management and direction as well as the Support of suc
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Convicts as should be sentenced to hard Labour on the Thames
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Justices in complyance with the Wishes and Recommendation
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appointed Mr.
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Duncan Campbell
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together with
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Neil Campbell
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(who was only appointed however for the safe Custody of the said Convicts in Case of the death of the said Duncan Camp
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the Overseers as aforesaid. Mr.
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at the same time giving the Justices to understand th
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Lately however the
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for the
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and the Clerk of the Goal Delivery to
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the County as well as the Goaler or Keeper of His Majestys G
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of Newgate have claimed of the
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for the County the
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payment of several large Sums of Money arising by Fees sa
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due to them for such persons as are by their respective Courts sen
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hard Labour on the
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or in the Houses of Con
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amounting in the whole to a Guinea for each Convict being a
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sentenced being a like Satisfaction with what they used to
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receive from the Contractor for Transporting Convicts for the
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Order of Transportation of any Offender
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Theretofore these fees were paid by the Contin
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for the Transportation of Convicts but now by a Clause in the
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abovementioned the Payment is thrown upon the County Trea
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and must necessarily exhaust the County Revenues very
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considerably
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In Consequence of this Act of Parliament the
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is very heavily burthened in the maintena
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and Custody of great numbers of Convicts committed to the
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of Correction for Labour which Prisons have been at a very la
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Expence altered for and accommodated to their reception and
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employment and which from the Daily increase of Convic
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must be still further Augmented there being no less than
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Hundred Convicts of the above kind in
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only
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The
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