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but hamanity, that the Wife
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one of the Prisoners had applied to him
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and told him that she had made application to the Secretary of State
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to get her Husband and one Jones and one Palmer discharged out of
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but that it could not be done without a Certificate
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from the apothecary, that he thought he
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shared not give a
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partial Account of
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the Prisoners situation,
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but that he ought to give a particular account of the
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Prisoners situation,
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but that he ought to give an Account of the whole of the
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Lottery people, and upon those Principles intirely he wrote that Certificate and
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transmitted it to Mr Gibbes for his approbation and Signature: He was then
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asked now he came to state any thing more in the Certificate them related to
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the Health of the Prisoners He sayd he thought Humanity obliged him
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upon all occasions to endeavour to obtain the discharge of Prisoners at all
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times if he could do it, if it were even an hour before their times of
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Imprisonment would expire
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Resolved it is the opinion of this Committee that any
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interference of the Surgeon and apothecary attending the Prisoners in
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in respect to their punishment or
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length of Imprisonment is highly improper and that he ought in no case
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to Certify any other matter than what relates to the health of the Prisoners &
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then only upon receiving a Requisition from Government or the Magistrates of
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the County for that purposes and that when any such Requisition should
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come officially from Government he ought immediately to lay the same
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before the Chairman of the Session.
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Resolved it appears to this Committee that the Sick Prisoners
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are attended by
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or deputy to Mr Gibbes the Person appointed
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for that purpose by the County and very seldom by Mr Gibbes himself
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Resolved it is the Opinion of this Committe that Mr
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Gibbes the
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ought to attend the Sick prisoners in the
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said Prisons himself and not by Deputy.
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