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January 1779
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certain Certificates under the hands of one of the Judges or Commissioner
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appointed for delivering the Goal of Newgate of the Acquittal and discharge
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of great numbers of prisoners at the delivery of the Goal of Newgate charged
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with the perpetration of Offences in the
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and claims of
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him the fee of 13s/4d for each prisoner so discharged by virtue of the said Act
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making in the whole a demand of many Hundred Pounds
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The Sessions of General Goal Delivery of
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being a Court of Criminal Jurisdiction are holden for the
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in the Old Bailey in the Suburbs of the
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under a 'Special Commission directed to the Lord Mayor of London
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some of the Judges of the one Bench or the other or the Barons of the
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Exchequer and others The Grand Jury however before whom all Bills of
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Indictment for the Trial of those Committed to
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for offences perpetrated
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in the County must be preferred are the Grand Jury of the Sessions of the
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peace for the said County Convened under the precept issued for holding those
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last mentioned Sessions sit at
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Hicks Hall
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within the said County and
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have no communication with the Session of Goal Delivery of Newgate
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such Bills of Indictment as are found by them for Grand Larceny or
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other Capital Offence as well as those as are returned ignoramus for the
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like offences are sent from the Sessions of the peace to the Session of Goal
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Delivery at the
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and the Sessions of the peace are Generally
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holden at the same time as those for the delivery of the Goal of Newgate
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Those prisoners charged with the commission of offences within the
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County tried at the
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are tried before a Jury Summoned from
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within the County
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Your Opinion is therefore desired upon the following
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Queries Vizt.
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First whether as the Goal of
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is situate within the
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and wholly under the management of the Corporation
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of that City and the keeper appointed and paid by them and
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under their Control and the prisoners therein as well for the City as
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the County Supported and kept at their Expence and as the Court
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holding Criminal Jurisdiction by whom these prisoners are tried
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and discharged is holden in the
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which City does
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not pay to the Rates of the
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but has a
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district Stock of its own the
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so circumstanced
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comes within the meaning of this Act
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I am of Opinion that the
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notwithstanding the peculiar
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Circumstances and Objections Stated is within this Act of parliament
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Secondly
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