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To His Majestys
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the Younger Contractors of the Carpenters
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work at the New House of Correction new building
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioners have
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done work and supplied Meterials
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for the New House of Correction, which do not come within their Contract, That,
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difficulties, have arisen in setting and proportioning the payment of the same
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owing as your Petitioners are Informed, to the want of sufficient Authority
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in the Committee, whereby your Petitioners are much distressd and injured
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Your Petitioners, therefore humbly Pray the
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Court to take their case into consideration and grant
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them such relief as their case requires or make such
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Order as to the Court shall seem meet
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And Your Petitioners will ever Pray
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14th.
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October
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April 1791
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J Wood
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J Wood Junr.
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