An address delivered at a general meeting of the nobility, gentry, clergy, and others, assessed to the county rate for the county of Glocester [sic] : convened ... for the purpose of receiving a statement of the proceedings of the committee appointed ... to rebuild the gaol and bridewells thereof; and held on Monday the 9th of July, 1792 / by Sir George Onesiphorus Paul.

  • Paul, George Onesiphorus, Sir, 1746-1820.
Date:
[1792]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An address delivered at a general meeting of the nobility, gentry, clergy, and others, assessed to the county rate for the county of Glocester [sic] : convened ... for the purpose of receiving a statement of the proceedings of the committee appointed ... to rebuild the gaol and bridewells thereof; and held on Monday the 9th of July, 1792 / by Sir George Onesiphorus Paul. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    27/92 (page 15)
    t IS ] crs became fuperfeded, and they difiolved them- ielves. From that time the Commifiioners appointed under the adl proceeded to fulfil the injunctions of the Statute with zeal and attention, but un- der circumftances which have protracted the completion of their work, to a period much beyond their own and the public expectation. Finally, in the name of the Commifiioners I may aflume, 'That the buildings are completed according to the intent of the county, and the letter of the Jlatute ;—that the plans adopted are confonant to the purpofes for which they •were defigned;—and that the whole has been ejfetted by means moft equitable to the clafs of inhabitants, who, by law, were liable to the expence. The “ buildings completed, fitted up, and fur- ftifhed”,—the duty of the Commifiioners is no more, or at moft is limited to attending- to the difeharge of the mortgages created by them. The power of regulating this coftly work remains, in the ordinary courfe of law, with the Magiflrates of the County affemblcd in Quarter Sefiions, on whofe afiiduity the pub- lic mult rely for beneficial effects, which could