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<p n="2744">February 1800.</p>
<p n="2745">prices of provisions would be lowered your Petitioner<lb></lb>
has not presumed to trouble your Worships before<lb></lb>
your Petitioner therefore humbly Submits his Case<lb></lb>
to the Consideration of your Worships to give such<lb></lb>
Relief as the extraordinary Circumstance of the<lb></lb>
times may induce your Worships to think<lb></lb>
reasonable and just your Petitioner does not<lb></lb>
presume to point out to your Worships any<lb></lb>
sum in Addition to his Allowance but he can<lb></lb>
with truth asert that his Expence in maintaining<lb></lb>
the Vagrants is at present a loss of at least one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55611_n2745-1">penny Per</rs>
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head beyond his Allowance as well<lb></lb>
as the great increase of Expence in keeping his<lb></lb>
Horses and necessary attendants upon the great<lb></lb>
number of Vagrants he has to Convey. - and<lb></lb>
Your Petitioner is in duty bound will ever Pray</p>
<p n="2746"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55611_n2746-1">Henry Bothwell</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="2747">N; B. your Petitioner has a great Number of<lb></lb>
Vagrants which are very ill and almost lost for<lb></lb>
want which he has to Convey.</p>
<p n="2748">And the Court having Considered the<lb></lb>
same and Examined the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55611_n2748-1">Henry Bothwell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
touching the matters therein Contained Resolved<lb></lb>
That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55611_n2748-2">Henry Bothwell</rs>
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be Allowed the sum<lb></lb>
of One hundred pounds to reimburse him<lb></lb>
the losses stated to have been sustained by him<lb></lb>
and that he also be Allowed to Charge the sum<lb></lb>
of Six pence Per Day for the subsistance of each<lb></lb>
Vagrant in his Custody instead of Three pence till<lb></lb>
further Orders.</p>
<p n="2749">A Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55611_n2749-1">Thomas Aris</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Governor of the House of Correction for this County<lb></lb>
being laid before this Court and Read praying the<lb></lb>
Court to Reimburse certain sums of Money which<lb></lb>
he had Expended in Endeavouring to Retake<lb></lb>
the Mutineers who Escaped out of his Custody</p>
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