to take into Consideration the Repairs and Alterations necessary
to be done to Hicks Hall was made and delivered and the same is as
follows (vizt.)

Middlesex

To his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex in this General Session of the peace to be only on
Thursday the 9th. day of December 1773 at Hicks Hall in Saint
John Street in and for the said County assembled

The Report of the Committee of his
Majestys Justices of the Peace for the said
County appointed to take into Consideration
the Repairs and Alterations necessary to be
done to Hicks Hall

That in consequence of the Order of Session of the 21st. Octr.
the Committee having taken into consideration the present
State of the building called Hicks Hall It appeared to them as
well from their own view as from the Report of Mr. Rogers the
Surveyor that the same is all in a very decayed ruinous condition
except the Foundations which upon inspection appeared to be
perfectly Sound and of sufficient dimensions both in depth and
thickness, The great inconveniency and want of room so much
complained of by several of the Magistrates, have likewise been
considered by the Committee and it appears to them that they
arise from an improper distribution in the forming of the several
parts of the present building whereby too great a share of the
business is necessarily confined to the ground flour and too small a
part to the upper Floor

The Committee therefore think it expedient that the present
Court Room should be moved and the whole of the Ground Floor