May 1790

1774

By an Act of 14th.. Geo: 3d. Cap: 20 It is Enacted That
every Prisoner who now is or hereafter shall be as charged with any
Felony or other Crime as an Accessary thereto before any Court holding
criminal Jurisdiction against whom no Bill of Indictment shall be
found by the Grand Jury or who on his or her Trial shall be acquitted
or who shall be discharged by Proclamation for want of Prosecution
shall be immediately set at large in Open Court without the payment
of any Fee or Sum of Money to the Sheriff Gaoler or Keeper of the Gaol
or Prison from whence he or she shall be so discharged and set at
liberty for or in respect of such discharge And that in lieu of such Fees
so abolished as aforesaid the Treasurers or other proper Officers of the
several Counties or of Districts Etc of a County as are not usually
Assessed to the County at large and of such Cities Etc. as do not pay to
the Rates of the several Counties in which they are respectively situated
shall on receiving a Certificate signed by one or more Judge or Justice
before whom such Prisoner shall have been discharged as aforesaid
(which Certificate the Judge or Justice is hereby required to give) pay
out of the Rates of such County or of such District Etc such Sum as
has been usually paid upon that occasion not exceeding thirteen
shillings and four pence for every Prisoner so discharged as aforesaid
to the Sheriff Gaoler or Keeper of the Prison whence the said Prisoner
shall have been discharged as aforesaid which several Sums so paid
in pursuant of this Act shall be respectively allowed to the said
Treasurers and Officers by the Justices before whom their Accounts
shall be passed.

December 1775

Mr Sawbridge as one of the Justices of the Gaol
Delivery for Middlesex after certifying the number of Prisoners
charged with Felony and acquitted and discharged without Fees and
also the number of Prisoners charged with Felony against whom no
Bill was found and discharged by Proclamation for want of
Prosecution without Fee. further Certified that it appeared to him
from inspecting the Lists of Fees allowed to be taken by the said
Richard Akerman< no role > This name instance is in set 4413. as such Gaoler that the Fee of Eighteen shillings
and ten pence was payable to him for the discharge of every such
Prisoner.