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<p n="1095">the many Alterations Additions and Improvements that have from time to time been made by the<lb></lb>
Citizens in and to the said Goal it is still ill Constructed Close in commodious unhealthy they<lb></lb>
humbly hope that the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo593">Middx</rs>
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is not Answerable for any of the bad Consequences<lb></lb>
of its Construction or Situaton in as much as the City and not the County have made it what it is</p>
<p n="1096">That it is evident by the above state of fasts that the Citizens have been possessed of<lb></lb>
at least two Funds amounting together to near a Millian sterling out of which for ought that<lb></lb>
has ever yet appeared to the publick they might have rebuilt their Goal of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo594">Newgate</rs>
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without any aid of the County which already in taxed at near £1000 a year for the<lb></lb>
Maintenance of its own Goals and other purposes by a County rate of which rate your<lb></lb>
Petitioners as justices of the Peace Conceive themselves the Guardians.</p>
<p n="1097">That the Revenues of the City are immense the Offices in their disposal so long ago<lb></lb>
as the year 1721 were estimated at £152000, and a very few years will put the Citizens in<lb></lb>
the actual Possession and receipt of such Estates as must yield an Income much more than<lb></lb>
adequate to the expences<obscured></obscured>
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<p n="1098">That as the Source of these Revenues are in general Royal grants many of them under<lb></lb>
the express Condition of well Governing the City and are enjoyed by the Citizens in their<lb></lb>
political and Corporate capacity the Revenues arising by Virtue of these Grants cannot<lb></lb>
be considered as private emoluments in reason and justice they ought to be applied only for<lb></lb>
public purposes and as your petitioners humbly Conceives the defraying the necessary expences<lb></lb>
of Magistracy the erection and repair of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo595">Goals bridges</rs>
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and other publick Offices are some<lb></lb>
of those beneficial purposes for which such Grants seem Originally to have been intended<lb></lb>
and to which the Revenue thereby arising are with the greatest propriety applicable.</p>
<p n="1099">For all which several reasons above mentioned as also for divers others of sing a Car<lb></lb>
wright and Importance which your Petitioners have to offer they do deny that the said<lb></lb>
Goal ought to be Rebuilt at the Expence of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo596">City of London</rs>
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and County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo597">Middex</rs>
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in any Proportion whatever-on the Contrary they say and doubt not by the</p>
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