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<p n="122"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1764.</note>
By Adjournment on Thursday <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55605_date23">23d. of February 1764</rs>
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<p n="123"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Report of the Commee<lb></lb>
abt. Allowing Bread to<lb></lb>
the Prisoners in New <lb></lb>
Prison.}</note>
At this Court the Comittee of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ100">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for this<lb></lb>
County delivered in a Report of the Matters therein mentioned referred <lb></lb>
to them which report is read as follows to wit.</p>
<p n="124">To the Worshipfull his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ101">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo116">Middx</rs>
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in their General Session Assembled</p>
<p n="125">The Report of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ102">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the County<lb></lb>
aforesaid who met as a Committee pursuant to an Order of Court <lb></lb>
made at the last General Quarter Session of the Peace for the <lb></lb>
said County Whereby it was referred to them to Examined and <lb></lb>
Consider whether the Sessions have Power to Order an Allowance <lb></lb>
of Bread to the Prisoners in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo117">New Prison</rs>
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in like manner as in the House <lb></lb>
of Correction and how to regulate such Allowance (if there shall be <lb></lb>
of Opinion there is Power to make any) and also how the Allowance <lb></lb>
of Bread to the Prisoners in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo118">House of Correction</rs>
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may be<lb></lb>
better regulated:</p>
<p n="126">Your Committee met at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo119">Hicks Hall</rs>
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on Wednesday the fifteenth <lb></lb>
Day of this Instant February and were Attended by the Keepers of the<lb></lb>
said Prisons and took into Consideration the former Reports Orders & <lb></lb>
Resolutions lay'd before them by the Deputy Clerk of the Peace and <lb></lb>
Perused the several Statutes for relieving Poor Prisoners and <lb></lb>
Examined both the said Keepers touching the General Circumstances <lb></lb>
of their respective Prisoners And are of the following Opinion</p>
<p n="127">First that by Virtue of the Statute made in the fourteenth Year <lb></lb>
of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Intituled An Act how Vagabonds <lb></lb>
shall be Punished and the Poor Relieved the Statute made in the<lb></lb>
nineteenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the second Intituled<lb></lb>
An Act for Relief of Poor Prisoners and setting them at Work and <lb></lb>
another Statute made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of His late <lb></lb>
Majesty King George the second for the more Easy Assessing <lb></lb>
Collecting and levying County rates this Court hath Power<lb></lb>
not only to Order a Suitable Relief out of the Publick Stock <lb></lb>
of this County Sustenance to such Prisoners committed to <lb></lb>
New Prison who are not able by themselves or their Friends <lb></lb>
to procure daily and necessary Food but also to Provide a Stock <lb></lb>
of Materials for setting them on Work for their Relief<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
and</p>
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