By adjournment on Thursday the Twenty sixth day of April 1759

Order for Mr. John Higgs< no role >
Treasurer to pay £1.0s.6d
to Mr. John White< no role >

It is Ordered by this Court that Mr. John Higgs< no role > Treasurer of this County
do pay unto Mr. John White< no role > the Sum of One pound and six pence for
paper Ink and other Matters found and provided and Money paid by
him at the Meetings of his Majestys Justices of the Peace for this County
at Hicks Hall in St. John Street in the said County And that the Receipt
of the said Mr. White together with this Order shall be a sufficient
Discharge to the said Treasurer for such payment.

By adjournment on Thursday the twenty sixth day of April 1759

Order for Mr. John Higgs< no role >
Treasurer to pay 9s to
Mr. Richard Wilson< no role >

It is Ordered by this Court that Mr. John Higgs< no role > Treasurer of this
County do pay unto Richard Wilson< no role > the Sum of nine shillings for
money by him paid for writing nine Copys of a Letter from the Lords
of his Majestys most honourable privy Council concerning the
impressing Stragling Seamen and Seafaring Men And that the
Receipt of the said Richard Wilson< no role > together with this Order
shall be a sufficient Discharge to the said Treasurer for such payment.

By adjournment on Thursday the twenty sixth day of April 1759.

Order made concerning
the Report agl. Joseph
St. Lawrence< no role > Esquire

A Report being made unto this Court by George Greene< no role > Thomas
Nicoll< no role > and Charles Palmer< no role > Esqrs . being a Committee of his Majesty's
of the Peace of this County appointed to inquire into the Truth of a Complaint
made to this Court concerning Persons apprehended for Offences arising
in the County at large and their being committed to the Prisions of the
City of Westminster It appeareth to this Court by the said Report
That the said Committee had inquired into the said Complaint and
found the same to be true upon the Examination upon Oath of the
Peace Officers of the Parishes of St. Giles in the Fields and St. George
Bloomsbury in the said County of Middx and by a Number of
Warrants produced by the said Officers under the Hand and Seat of
Joseph St. Lawrence Esqr . which Warrants were indorsed on the Back
Committed to the Gatehouse and others committed to Bridewell , which
Bridewell the said Officers declared to be Tothill Fields Bridewell
Westminster notwithstanding the Offences charged in such Warrants
were committed in the Parishes of St. Giles and St. George Bloomsbury
and the Partys apprehended there and that this Practice had been
carried on for a considerable length of time And that by the Statute
of H. 4. C. 10. It is ordained and established that none be imprisoned
by any Justice of the Peace but only in the Common Goal, saving