Middlesex Sessions:
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October 1770

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To Say no less of the order to attack, when milder remedy
are given by the Statutesattachmt.and for not doing that which anor.
ought to have done long before, and for doing of wch.
Mr. Jefferson may be troubled & sex'd by the parties
Concern'd, is considered by every one Acquainted with
the practise of the Sessions as a Rigorous measure.

But as his folly to contend with Courts or Superior
powers, the next thing Jefferson has Considd. is how
to perform this business in the best manner he [..] can with as little Mischief to
himself & others- as possibleHe resolved to compleat it in the
best manner he could.

In orderorderthereto he has sent letters
to the parties concerned (none having been sent
at the proper time) and the Answers thereto are
collected in the schedules of the different Sessions
and in marginal observations throughout the
Draft.

By these itwillappeargsthat many persons will
be very unworthily [..] involved in Rim who have been
[..] principal or Senety, and in general poor people, if
Mr Jefferson is obligedright orindiscrimately to
estreat their Recognizances because they stand [..]
discharged in the Session Books, for instance several who
thro' meer ignorancehave neglected to not appeareddid
not appear, others who appeared at a subseqt. Session &
did not hear themselves call'd otherswerewhere the Recognizances were not sent in due Time




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