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