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<p n="1165"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">July 1778</note>
great Numbers have been Sentenced to be Imprisoned in the said<lb></lb>
House of Correction pursuant to the said Act And also great<lb></lb>
Numbers for a Shorter length of time Whereby your Petitioners<lb></lb>
charge hath been greatly augmented and which is yet liable to<lb></lb>
increase to a very great degree and for your Worships information<lb></lb>
Your Petitioner begs leave to refer you to his Book of Convicts which is<lb></lb>
now present and shews a clear and particular Account of all the<lb></lb>
Convicts committed to his Care since the commencement of the said<lb></lb>
Act together with an Account of those now in Custody which are eigthy<lb></lb>
nine in Numbers a List of which is hereinto annexed</p>
<p n="1166">Your Worships from this information will clearly understand<lb></lb>
the part he has sustained in the public Service for the space of two years<lb></lb>
The attention that hath been required and the anxiety created in your<lb></lb>
Petitioners mind by so heavy a charge and also that a great expence<lb></lb>
hath attended the discharge of such additional Duty</p>
<p n="1167">Your Petitioner begs leave in this place to express his sincerect<lb></lb>
acknowledgments for the ready Support the Court has been pleased to<lb></lb>
give him by paying the Expence of Man employed in Governing<lb></lb>
the two Rioters committed from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1047">Newgate</rs>
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by the Sheriffs and assures<lb></lb>
the Court he will continue to exert his utmost abilities to keep the<lb></lb>
said Rioters under Subjection</p>
<p n="1168">Your Petitioner therefore humbly Prays<lb></lb>
Your Worships will be pleased to take his<lb></lb>
Petition into consideration and grant him<lb></lb>
such a Sum of Money as in your Wisdom<lb></lb>
you may think fit as a consideration for his<lb></lb>
Services for the two years last past ending the<lb></lb>
present Session and that Your Worships will<lb></lb>
be further pleased to grant him a Salary<lb></lb>
adequate to the said additional charge of<lb></lb>
Governing and managing the Convicts that<lb></lb>
now are and may be committed to his care<lb></lb>
And your Petitioner as in Duty bound will over<lb></lb>
Pray Etc.<lb></lb>
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