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<p n="285"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">January 1775</note>
much of the said Report as last abovementioned be confirmed and the same<lb></lb>
is hereby ratified and confirmed accordingly</p>
<p n="286">The said Committee Further Report That<lb></lb>
having taken into Consideration Mr. Elmores account of Fees due to<lb></lb>
him from the County under the Act of Parliament abovementioned<lb></lb>
the Committee Postpones the Consideration of the same</p>
<p n="287">The said Committee Further Report That<lb></lb>
having taken into Consideration an Act of Parliament passed in<lb></lb>
the fourteenth Year of his present Majestys Reign Intituled An<lb></lb>
"Act for the Relief of Prisoners charged with felony or other Crimes<lb></lb>
"who shall be acquitted or discharged by Proclamation respecting the<lb></lb>
"Payment of Fees to Goalers and giving a Recompence for such fees<lb></lb>
"out of the County Rates" It appears to this Committee by the said<lb></lb>
Act that every Prisoner that now is or hereafter shall be charged<lb></lb>
"with any Felony or other Crime or as an accessary thereto before any<lb></lb>
"Court holding Criminal Jurisdiction within that part of Great<lb></lb>
"Britain called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo325">England</rs>
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and Wales against whom no Bill of<lb></lb>
"Indictment shall be found by the Grand Jury or who on his<lb></lb>
"or her Trial shall be acquitted or who shall be discharged by<lb></lb>
"Proclamation for want of prosecution shall be immediately set at<lb></lb>
"large in Open Court without the Payment of any Fee or Sum of<lb></lb>
"Money to the Sheriff Goaler Keeper of the Goal or Prison from<lb></lb>
"whence he or she shall be so discharged and set at Liberty for or<lb></lb>
"in respect of such discharge</p>
<p n="288">And it Appearing by the said Act that<lb></lb>
all such fees as have been usually paid to the Sheriffs Goalers or<lb></lb>
Keepers of Prisons are Abolished That the Treasurers of the several<lb></lb>
Counties shall on Receiving a Certificate Signed by one or more Judge<lb></lb>
or Justice before whom a Prisoner shall have been discharged pay<lb></lb>
out of the Rates of such County to such Goaler a Sum not Exceeding<lb></lb>
Thirteen Shillings and Four pence in lieu of such Fees due upon<lb></lb>
the discharge of every prisoner as aforesaid</p>
<p n="289">The Committee are of Opinion that all Indictable<lb></lb>
Offences are within the meaning of the said Act Vizt. Treasons<lb></lb>
Felonies Assaults Riots Misdemeanours & Indictable Nuisances</p>
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