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April 1796.
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and deliberation but the result was that altho there were
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some particulars which in their Opinion deserved to be
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reconsidered it was a matter of such magnitude and
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Importance as to require the united Consideration of His
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Majesty's Justices in Session assembled.
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8th. At the Eighth Meeting of this Committee held on
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Thursday 31st. March 1796.
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Michael Gamson
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the Task
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Master attended and laid before the Committee (as directed)
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the several Bills and Demands for Articles Ordered by
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him for the use of the House of Correction such as Wool for
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spinning working Utensils Etc. amounting to the sum of
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£72..2s..8½d which Bills are Ordered to be laid before
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his Majesty's
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Justices of the peace
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in Session assembled
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in Order that the Sum may be Audited and paid: at
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this Meeting the said Gamson also laid before the
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Committee certain Books and Papers which he called
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an Account of work done by the Prisoners in the House
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of Correction from December 23d. 1794. to March 21st. 1796.
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a Period of Fifteen Months.
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The Committee bestowed much time and Labour in
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examining the Accounts and enquiring of the Task Master
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concerning the same but they found it utterly impossible
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to bring him to any satisfactory Account of the produce
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of the Prisoners Labour there was but one thing which
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Alas was but two evident that their Labour had been
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extremely unproductive in general the Task Master was
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either utterly unable or altogether unwilling to state in
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any way that was intelligible the profit and loss by the
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Materials on the one part and by the Labour or the other
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This only was the result of a long and painful
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Investigation that it is the Opinion of this Committee that
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has been of no Advantage to the County sufficient to Justify
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the Continuance of such an Officer at an expence of nearly
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