April 1779

and they or any three or more of them are hereby appointed a Committee
to View and Examine into the State and Condition of the said Bridge and to
Report on the County day of the next Session what shall appear to them upon
such View and Examination to be necessary for the immediate and effectual
Repair and Security of the same and the said Committee are to meet for the
first time at the Swan Inn at the foot of the said Bridge on the Middlesex
Side on Monday the Seventeenth day of May next at the hour of Nine in
the forenoon and afterwards at such times and places as they shall think
fit and the said Committee are hereby Empowered to take to their assistance
in the Examination into the State and Condition of the said Bridge
such able Workmen as they shall find necessary to be employed therein at
the Expence of this County

By adjournment same day

Mr, Eyles the Deputy Clerk of the peace reported that
pursuant to the directions of his Majestys Justices of the peace at the last
Session he has attended very diligently on the Committee appointed by the
House of Commons to Examine the several Returns which have been
made to the order of the House of the Sixteenth day of December last in
respect to persons convicted of Felonies or Misdemeanours and now under
Sentence of Imprisonment in the Goals and Houses of Correction in the
City of London and Counties of Middlesex Essex Kent Herts Surrey and
Sussex specifying their respective Crimes the time when the term for which
and by what Court each person has been Imprisoned together with an Account
of the allowance made for the maintenance of such persons and in what
manner they are employed and Report their Opinion thereon to the House
and having procured a printed Copy of the Report of the said Committee
he laid the same before the Court Whereupon the Resolutions of the
said Committee contained in the said Report were now read and it
being suggested that it was at present in agitation to move the House
of Commons for leave to bring in a Bill "To Explain and Amend the
Laws now in being relating to the Transportation and Imprisonment
of certain Offenders pursuant to the tenour of the said Report

Resolved