Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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28th October 1789 - 5th December 1795

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Image 56 of 49627th May 1790


May 1790

For the same, and such Fees Gratuities and Satisfaction and
also all Expences to be incurred by any Sheriff or Gaoler in the
conveyance of any such Offender whatever to the House or Place to
be appointed for his or her confinement such Expences being
previously examined and allowed by the Justices of the Peace at
their Quarter or other General Session shall be paid by the
Treasurer of the County or Place for which the Court in which such
Offender shall be Convicted shall have been held to such Clerk of
Assize or other Clerk of the Court and to such Sheriff or Gaoler
respectively and every such Treasurer shall be allowed every such
payment in his Accounts.

From that period to the Year 1781 Mr Akerman
received the last mentioned Fee and Expences of Conveyance
from Mr Campbell or from Government who continued to pay the
same till the time of the passing of the Act of the 24th Geo: 3d.

By an Act of Parliament made in the 24th. Geo: 3 Cap. 56:
for the effectual Transportation of Felons and other Offenders and for
authorising the removal of Prisoners in certain Cases and for other
purposes therein mentioned Sec: 3d. It is Enacted, That all Fees
on delivering out of Custody of any such Offender so ordered to he
removed as have usually been paid and would have been due to the
Sheriff or Gaoler in case such Offender had been removed in order to
have been Transported and all reasonable Expences which the Sheriff
or Gaoler shall incur in every such Removal shall be paid by the
County Etc for which the Court in which the Offender was Convicted
shall have been held and the Sheriff or Gaoler shall receive the
Money due for such Fees and Expences from the Treasurer of such
County Etc such Fees and Expences being first allowed by the Order
of the Justices of the Peace at their Quarter or other General Sessions
of the Peace who are hereby required to make such Order as shall
be just in that behalf.

In Pursuance of this Act of Parliament Mr Akerman
hath delivered in to the Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex
at their Quarter Session of the Peace Two Accounts in Writing Vizt.
One Account containing the Names of the Offenders who have been
Convicted at the several Sessions for the said County and who were




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