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Goal for near four years last past or for any other period within that space of time
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and have been sick during their Confinement Your Committee are also of
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Opinion that
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hath not been at the Expence
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stated in his report in respect to the Prisoners who were sick during their
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within the
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And before Your Committee conclude their Report they take
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leave to observe that a Notwithstanding Dr. Smith in his Petition to the
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confines his attendances to the different Goals in London
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and ever the Report of the Committee of the
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Commons to whom that Petition was referred enumerates the following Goals
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as those only which the Dr. has attended vizt. Ludgate
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expressly vote Doctor Smith the Recompence above
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mentioned for his attendance on sick Prisoners in the several Goals in
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and borough of
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equal in number to all the other Goals the Doctor asserts to have attended
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in all the other Jurisdictions; and as five to one as to those in
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si not mentioned in the said
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Vote in any respect whatsoever from which Circumstances as well as from
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many other mentioned in the fore going part of this report your Committee
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are of opinion that the
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have been most shamefully
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imposed upon both in respect to the number of Goals which the Dr: pretends
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to have attended, the frequency of those attendances and the Expence
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which it is asserted the Dr. hath been at in regard to sick Prisoners and
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Your Committee are induced to be of this Opinion by a form belief that the
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would not otherwise at this time especially when their attention is
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particularly placed upon national economy have precipitately voted away
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so large a Sum of the Public money for the fact is that Dr Smith instead of
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attending the several Goals in the
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the most insignificant,
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amounted to no more than seven Shillings and Six Pence
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All which the Committee Submit Etc Etc
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