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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord the King holden
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and others their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King Assigned to keep
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the peace within the said Liberty and also to hear and determine divers
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Felonies Trespasses and other Misdeeds done & Committed within the sd. Liberty
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the Second Intituled an Act for the more easy Assession
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collecting & levying of County Rates It is enacted that the Justices of the
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peace for the said City and Liberty of Westmr. shall have full power to appoint
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the
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within the said City and
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. who shall have the Sum of Money Yearly as had been
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accustomed for & towards the Support & Maintainance of the Prisoners in his
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Etc not exceeding Fifty Pounds by the Year And direct the
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or Treasurers of the County of Middx to obey all Orders which shall be made
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by the said Justices of the said City & Liberty or the greater part of them Assembled
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in their General Quarter Sessions for the payment of any Sum or Sums of Money
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for the Allowance allotted to such Governor or Master of the
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And it appearing to this Court that there is due to Samuel Attersoll Master
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or Governor of the said House of Correction the Sum of Twenty five Pounds
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for half a Year's Sallary due at Michaelmas last past It is Ordered and
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directed by this Court That Mr.
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of the County of Middx
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do pay to the said
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the said Sum of Twenty five Pounds for
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half a year's Sallary as Governor or Master of the said
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& that his Receipt with this Order shall be a sufficient Discharge to the said
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Mr.
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for that Sum.
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By the Court
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