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By Adjournment on Thursday
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23d. of February 1764
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Report of the Commee
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abt. Allowing Bread to
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the Prisoners in New
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At this Court the Comittee of his Majesty's
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Justices of the Peace
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for this
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to them which report is read as follows to wit.
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To the Worshipfull his Majesty's
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Justices of the Peace
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in their General Session Assembled
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The Report of his Majesty's
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for the County
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aforesaid who met as a Committee pursuant to an Order of Court
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made at the last General Quarter Session of the Peace for the
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said County Whereby it was referred to them to Examined and
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Consider whether the Sessions have Power to Order an Allowance
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in like manner as in the House
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of Correction and how to regulate such Allowance (if there shall be
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of Opinion there is Power to make any) and also how the Allowance
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of Bread to the Prisoners in the said
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Hicks Hall
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on Wednesday the fifteenth
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Day of this Instant February and were Attended by the Keepers of the
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said Prisons and took into Consideration the former Reports Orders &
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Resolutions lay'd before them by the Deputy Clerk of the Peace and
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Perused the several Statutes for relieving Poor Prisoners and
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Examined both the said Keepers touching the General Circumstances
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of their respective Prisoners And are of the following Opinion
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First that by Virtue of the Statute made in the fourteenth Year
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of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Intituled An Act how Vagabonds
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shall be Punished and the Poor Relieved the Statute made in the
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nineteenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the second Intituled
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An Act for Relief of Poor Prisoners and setting them at Work and
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another Statute made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of His late
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Majesty King George the second for the more Easy Assessing
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Collecting and levying County rates this Court hath Power
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not only to Order a Suitable Relief out of the Publick Stock
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of this County Sustenance to such Prisoners committed to
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New Prison who are not able by themselves or their Friends
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to procure daily and necessary Food but also to Provide a Stock
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of Materials for setting them on Work for their Relief
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