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30th, July 1778</p>
<p n="1172">Minutes of the Committee appointed to consider of<lb></lb>
a Petition from Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50682_n1172-1">Edward Hall</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50682_occ193">Governor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50682_geo446">House<lb></lb>
of Correction</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50682_geo447">Clerkenwell</rs>
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<p n="1173">Present<lb></lb>
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Esqr. in the Chair<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50682_n1173-2">Saunders Welch</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50682_n1173-3">Charles Sheppard</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50682_n1173-4">William Mainwaring</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50682_n1173-5">George Allcock</rs>
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Esqr.</p>
<p n="1174">Read the Order of reference to the Committee Vizt. to take the<lb></lb>
Merits of the said Petition into Consideration and report their<lb></lb>
Opinion if any and what Compensation shall be made to the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50682_n1174-1">Edward Hall</rs>
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for the Services therein mentioned</p>
<p n="1175">Examined an Account of the numbers of Convicts in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50682_geo448">House of Correction</rs>
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from whence it appears that at the<lb></lb>
time Mr. Hall delivered his Petition to the Sessions the<lb></lb>
number was Eighty Nine</p>
<p n="1176">Examined Mr. Hall who Saith that in consequence of<lb></lb>
the number of Convicts in his Custody he hath been obliged for<lb></lb>
the safety of their Confinement to employ Two Additional Men at<lb></lb>
the Expence of Twelve Shillings per Week and which Expence<lb></lb>
he saith must necessarily now increase to Eighteen Shillings<lb></lb>
as their whole time will be occupied in that Employment</p>
<p n="1177">Resolved It is the Opinion of the Committee that<lb></lb>
the Sum of Twenty Five pounds P Ann. for the two years past<lb></lb>
ending on the County day of the last Session be allowed to Mr.<lb></lb>
Hall for his trouble Care and Expence in managing the Convict<lb></lb>
Committed to His Custody</p>
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