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January 1775
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much of the said Report as last abovementioned be confirmed and the same
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is hereby ratified and confirmed accordingly
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The said Committee Further Report That
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having taken into Consideration Mr. Elmores account of Fees due to
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him from the County under the Act of Parliament abovementioned
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the Committee Postpones the Consideration of the same
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The said Committee Further Report That
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having taken into Consideration an Act of Parliament passed in
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the fourteenth Year of his present Majestys Reign Intituled An
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"Act for the Relief of Prisoners charged with felony or other Crimes
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"who shall be acquitted or discharged by Proclamation respecting the
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"Payment of Fees to Goalers and giving a Recompence for such fees
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"out of the County Rates" It appears to this Committee by the said
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Act that every Prisoner that now is or hereafter shall be charged
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"with any Felony or other Crime or as an accessary thereto before any
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"Court holding Criminal Jurisdiction within that part of Great
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"Britain called
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and Wales against whom no Bill of
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"Indictment shall be found by the Grand Jury or who on his
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"or her Trial shall be acquitted or who shall be discharged by
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"Proclamation for want of prosecution shall be immediately set at
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"large in Open Court without the Payment of any Fee or Sum of
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"Money to the Sheriff Goaler Keeper of the Goal or Prison from
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"whence he or she shall be so discharged and set at Liberty for or
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"in respect of such discharge
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And it Appearing by the said Act that
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all such fees as have been usually paid to the Sheriffs Goalers or
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Keepers of Prisons are Abolished That the Treasurers of the several
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Counties shall on Receiving a Certificate Signed by one or more Judge
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or Justice before whom a Prisoner shall have been discharged pay
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out of the Rates of such County to such Goaler a Sum not Exceeding
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Thirteen Shillings and Four pence in lieu of such Fees due upon
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the discharge of every prisoner as aforesaid
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The Committee are of Opinion that all Indictable
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Offences are within the meaning of the said Act Vizt. Treasons
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Felonies Assaults Riots Misdemeanours & Indictable Nuisances
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