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being laid before the Court and the same
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in their General Session of the peace
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Thursday the 17th. day of September 1778 assembled
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The Report of the Committee appointed
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to carry into immediate and Effectual Execution
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The said Committee Report
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made Vizt. To prepare a Memorial to the Lords Commissioners of
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His Majestys: Treasury agreeable to the Report of the prison Committee
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made and Confirmed in October Session last" & Mr. Eyles having
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laid before Your Committee the following Draft of a Memorial
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To the Right Honourable the
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The Humble Memorial of
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Sheweth
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That in the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of His
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present Majesty King George the Third an act of Parliament
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was made to authorize for a limited time the punishment by hard
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Labour of Offenders who for certain crimes are or shall become
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liable to be Transported to any of His Majestys Colonies and
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Plantations" since which time no persons Convicted in any of the
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have been sentenced to Transportation but have been
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sent by virtue of the said Act to hard Labour on the
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or in the Houses of Correction belonging to the said
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County where they have been and now are Secured and
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Supported the first under the directions and at the Expence
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