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<p n="1185">The following Report of the Committee appointed to carry into<lb></lb>
immediate and Effectual Execution the Repair of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1058">New Prison</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1059">Clerkenwell</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1060">Bridewell</rs>
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being laid before the Court and the same<lb></lb>
being read as follows Vizt.</p>
<p n="1186"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1061">Middlesex</rs>
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To His Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ534">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1062">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in their General Session of the peace<lb></lb>
held at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1063">Hicks Hall</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1064">Saint John Street</rs>
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(by adjournment) on<lb></lb>
Thursday the 17th. day of September 1778 assembled</p>
<p n="1187">The Report of the Committee appointed<lb></lb>
to carry into immediate and Effectual Execution<lb></lb>
the Repair of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1065">New Prison</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1066">Clerkenwell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1067">Bridewell</rs>
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<p n="1188">The said Committee Report</p>
<p n="1189">That in pursuance of the Order of reference to them<lb></lb>
made Vizt. To prepare a Memorial to the Lords Commissioners of<lb></lb>
His Majestys: Treasury agreeable to the Report of the prison Committee<lb></lb>
made and Confirmed in October Session last" & Mr. Eyles having<lb></lb>
laid before Your Committee the following Draft of a Memorial<lb></lb>
To the Right Honourable the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ535">Lords Commissi<lb></lb>
-oners of His Majestys Treasury</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1190">The Humble Memorial of<lb></lb>
His Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ536">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1068">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="1191">Sheweth</p>
<p n="1192">That in the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of His<lb></lb>
present Majesty King George the Third an act of Parliament<lb></lb>
was made to authorize for a limited time the punishment by hard<lb></lb>
Labour of Offenders who for certain crimes are or shall become<lb></lb>
liable to be Transported to any of His Majestys Colonies and<lb></lb>
Plantations" since which time no persons Convicted in any of the<lb></lb>
Courts holding Criminal Jurisdiction within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1069">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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have been sentenced to Transportation but have been<lb></lb>
sent by virtue of the said Act to hard Labour on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1070">River<lb></lb>
Thames</rs>
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or in the Houses of Correction belonging to the said<lb></lb>
County where they have been and now are Secured and<lb></lb>
Supported the first under the directions and at the Expence<lb></lb>
of Government the letter at the Charge of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1071">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="1193">By</p>
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