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January 1800.
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"Complaint, I found a Man in the Apartment
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And Your said Committee further Report
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That upon Viewing the several parts of the Prison
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and particularly the cells in which the Mutineers
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are confined the Prisoners appeared healthy but
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most of the Mutineers Complained that the Prison
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Allowance of Food was not sufficient for them
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