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July 1776
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Should to the Overseers
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Act of authorize for a limited time the Punishment by hard
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labour of offenders who for certain Crimes
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liable to be Transported to any of his Majesty's Colonies or
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Plantations: His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the
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at their Quarter or other General Sessions
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of the Peace are directed to appoint an Overseer or Overseers to
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take the Management and directions of such Male persons
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as by virtue of and pursuant to the said Statute shall at any
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Session of Oyer and Terminer or Goal delivery or at any Quarter
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or other General Session of the Peace for any County Riding
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Division City Liberty Borough Town or place within that part
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of Great Britain Called England or any Court held for the same
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place with like authority be ordered and adjudged to be punished
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by being kept to hard Labour in the raising Sand Soil and
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Gravel from and Cleansing the
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such Term of Years as such Male person shall by such
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by virtue therefore of the Powers and Authority in the said Act
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contained, this Court doth appoint
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Duncan Campbell
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Merchant and
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of Deptford in the
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Overseers pursuant to the
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By adjournment 12th. September 1776
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for this County in this present
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of the General and General Quarter Sessions of the
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Peace for this County for and during the Half year now next
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The Clerk of the Peace informed the Court that
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for this
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Government had disposed of Ely House in Holborn to a Mr
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Cole and that Mr. Cole was willing to let the Justices have
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a sufficient part of the ground whereon to erect a Session
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House Whereupon it was moved and Seconded and resolved
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that the Committee appointed on the Seventh day of Decr.
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last to enquire after a proper piece of Ground whereon to erect
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