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to employ them in hard Labour to the House of Correction
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yet there are
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great Numbers of the Sort sent to the other Prisons
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From the Premises therefore it will necessarily follow that an
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average drawn from the Numbers as they stand in the
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return will not convey a just Idea of the medium Number committed
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to the House of Correction for hard Labour in any other
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Observ. 4th.
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These Sums include the Expences attending the subsisting and
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relieving the Prisoners that are committed as well to the
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as to that of
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and the Interment of such as die under confinement
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with other contingent charged, and not even with respect to those who are comitted
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to Hard Labour but the Vagrants and all others confined there
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and it seems that an Account which would only regard those
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committed for Hard Labour could not be composed with any
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degree of Precission or accuracy;
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owing to the manner
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in which the accounts have for
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of Years been kept no
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distinction having been made as to what is expended for Prisoners
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of one Class or those of another However (excepting as to the
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Interments and charged for medical relief) some kind of calculation
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to Hard Labour. there
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appears to have been 745 persons committed in the Year 1774
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The allowance at the
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is one
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Pennyworth of Bread to each Prisoner and to particulars some
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times more 3d Three pences a day therefore may be reasonably allowed for the
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support of the average Number of those committed, which in the Year
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would amount only to 4.11.3 Whence it follows that the greatest
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