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THE CITY GOVERNMENT 127 under his charge. One of these stood till recently in Giltspur Street. It had been removed in 1791 from Wood Street, and served for debtors and misdemeanants. The second was in the Poultry. The meaning of the name is not very clear, but it is generally taken to signify that a person committed to the counter did not emerge till he had accounted for his debts and had "paid the uttermost farthing.”
