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Poor Prisoners Act 1666
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V.Prisoners may be removed for Trial to the Common Gaol.
Regulations as to Security for Stock, &c. by Overseer of the said Workhouse. Justices of Devon may execute this Act.
And because the said Workehouse is distant from the ordinary Common Goale, the Prisoners by order from the Sessions or Goale delivery may in order to their Tryalls be removed to the Common Goale to be the more ready for their Tryalls. Item That the said Overseer shall give Security for the Stocke and be lyeable to such Regulations and Orders for Accompts and otherwise as the Sessions shall from time to time make for setting the poore Prisoners on worke there which shall be obeyed and observed that a convenient Stocke be from time to time raised at the Charge of the County. Item That the said Justices in the County of Devon may putt in ure all the powers in this Act as other Justices may in any other County by vertue thereof.
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