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1764.
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Maintenance but the very Indifferent Success of the
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Proceeding therein at
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is no Inducement to
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Execute Your Power at
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That the Supplying necessary Relief to proper Objects in
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the said Prison occasionally upon the Report or Application of
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the Keeper will not Cause any Considerable Expence to this
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County there being few Prisoners Committed to his Custody as
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he readily declared but are able to Support themselves or have
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Friends that Visit and relieve them and that those few either
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by his own Assistance or some other Friendly means have been
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Subsisted in a Tolerable manner In as much as none have
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Perished or been in Extreain Want and during his whole
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Keepership there hath not been any Mortality but the Prisoners
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have Continued in a good State of Health.
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That a Competent Saving for this Purpose might be made out
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of the Allowances to the Prisoners in the
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House of Correction
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(the Annual Charges whereof is 70 or £80.) if those able were
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to be kept Strictly to Labour for their own Support (as it is in the
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indispensible Duty of the Governor to keep them to and an Obligation
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on the Majistrates to see performed) and that none but those
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who work and who are Poor and friendless should have the
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Allowance agreeable to the True Sense of the Legislature
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as well for the Correcting their Morals as for the Ease of the
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County in Point of Charge Whereas the Daily Allowance of
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Bread is now distributed without distinction whereby those who
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are nowise the Objects of the benevolent Intention of the Sessions
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are equal Partakers with them that are
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That if three a four Justices whom it best Suited or by turns were
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Appointed by the Sessions to Continue as a Committee to Superintend
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the Government of both the said Prisons to see the severall Acts
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of Parliament and Orders of Court punctually Executed and to
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receive the Occasionel Applications of the Keepers and give
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them Assistance and direction from Time to Time it would
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be productive of good Effect to this County more Especially with
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respect to the
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in providing proper Stocks of
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Work or seeing that the Keeper did it and by keeping
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