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.

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    [ 3* ] of Prifons muff have been charged on the or- dinary County Rate, and wholly levied at the time in which any fuch expenditure was di- rected. There being no power of anticipation then exifting, this was folely and entirely a tenant’s tax. It was the firft objedt of your Com- mittee to confider the means, by which this burthen might be properly relieved. The belt opinions were confulted;—various plans of annuities, and tontines were laid before them ; but finally gave way to a refolution* <c That it <c would be mod for the interefl of the public to “ raife money on negotiable bonds, bearing fim- tc pie interefl:; and that fuch a finking fund <£ fhould be eftablilhed as would liquidate the <c debt in 25 years.”—By perufing the aTyou will perceive, that the mode of borrowing, thus propofed, has been adopted, but not with the limi- tation mentioned; otherwife than as it prote&s the tenant from excels. As the tenantry were not to direct the work, it was thought juft to exempt them from the confequence of excels in expen- diture ; the annual payment, or annuity, was therefore precifely fixed, and the amount calcu- lated on the prefumption of borrowing 28,000!. and to redeem that fum in 25 years. * See proceeding April io, 1784. The