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handle is hein.ssl/ssma0363 and id is 1 raw text is: IV THE YEAR 'O7 OR LORD, 180i
-Poor Convias.

ACTS AND LAWS,
PASSED Br THE

GENERAL COURT

of Majachuetts,

At the Seflion begun and held at Dflon, in the Coun-
ty of Sufoli, on W        EDNESDAY, the        twenty-fixth
day of MAY, .Anno Domini, i8oa,
CHAP. I.
An   at  in  addition to    an a&, entitled, An a&         au-
thorizing the Courts of General Seffions of the
Peace to liberate poor Convi&s from prifon, and to
difpofe of titem in fervice for payment of cofts of
profecution.
J E it enaad by the Senate and Hou of Rrprf ttafiv s, in Central Court
afembled, and by the authority of tbr fame, That the powers vefted in
the Courts of General Scflions of the I eace in the feveral Counties in this
Commonweahh, by the aft to which this is an addition, be, and hereby
are extendled to auhorize the liberation of perfons convifed before a
3uRice of tlhe Peace, in the fame manner, and upon the fame conditions,
oA if the (aid perfons had been convifted before either of the Courts men-
lomd in the ad to which this is in addition.
r'this ae paird June 4, 8oa.]
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