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And Whereas for the delinquency of a workman
who deserts his work is punished punishment is provided by divers Statutes
which punishment in as far as it consists
in imprisonment in an ordinary Jail would
be inconsistent with the system of industry and
reformation hereby intended to be established Be
it enacted that if any Metasylum man or
woman should spen refusing or wilfully omitting to
perform any such reasonable work as he or she may or
come either be chastised with such moderate
chastisement correction as in whatever is at Common Law
empowered to inflict on a misbehaving servant
or may on conviction before any one Justice
of the Peace be punished with moderate whipping or by
being committed to Hard labour on the Penitentiary
House without for any term not exceeding
a month and that without any such share of
earnings as may therein be allowed to the Penitentiary
Prisoner & other Prisoners the Governor may stand engaged to [...] in virtue of
his general engagement be bound to allow to Prisoners.
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