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February 1784
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Building a New House of
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purchased of the Quakers
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together with the scite of
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the present House of
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Correction}
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A Motion was now made "that the consideration of
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building a New House of Correction on a Scale adapted to the Ground
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purchased of the Quakers together with the Scite of the present House of
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of the next Session" and the same being Agreed to It was moved
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, The Revd.
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Dr Mayo, Sir
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Charles Sheppard
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Thomas Collins
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Joseph
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Edward Barnaby Greene
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William Breton
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Thomas Parker
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Jeremiah Bentham
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Edmund Pepys
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William Franks
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David Walker
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William
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Majestys Justices of the Peace
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for this County who may please to
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attend or any five of them be such Committee that the said Committee
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do meet for the first time at this place on Friday the 5th. day of March
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next at the hour of Eleven in the Forenoon and afterwards do adjourn
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to and meet at such times and places as they shall think proper
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the House of Correction
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To Examine into the General Government of the House of
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Correction at
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being read of which the following in
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a Copy Vizt:
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To His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the
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County of Middlesex
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in their General Session of the Peace holden for the said County in
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February Session 1764 assembled.
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of the House of Correction at
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The said Committee Report that having taken into
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consideration the Order of Referrence to them made at the last
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