COUNTY OF
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To MARY BOND and JOHN MITCHELL Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Saint Dominick in the said County of Cornwall,
WHEREAS you the said Overseers having proposed unto us JOHN KENDALL
FLETCHER Clerk D.D. and HENRY WOOLLCOMBE, Clerk two of His Majesty’s
Justices of the Peace, acting in and for the Middle Division of the
Hundred of East within the said County of Cornwall, under and by Virtue
of an Act of Parliament passed in the fifty-sixth Year of the Reign of
his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled, “An Act to regulate
the Binding of Parish Apprentices,” to bind MARTHA BRENT a poor Child,
aged eleven Years, belonging to your said Parish of Saint Dominick
Apprentice to GEORGE HARRIS of the said Parish of Saint Dominick Yeoman.
AND WHEREAS, we the said Justices having this day enquired into the
Propriety of Binding the said Child Apprentice, and having particularly
examined and considered the several Directions contained in the said
recited Act, and also the Circumstances and Character of the said GEORGE
HARRIS do hereby declare that the said GEORGE HARRIS, is a fit Person to
take the said MARTHA BRENT Apprentice as aforesaid; and do order that
you the said Overseers shall be at liberty to bind such Child Apprentice
accordingly.
Given under our Hands this third Day of June in the Year of our Lord One
Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty.
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(Signed)
HENRY WOOLLCOMBE
(Signed) J. K. FLETCHER |
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