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June 1785
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The said Committee Report
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That having taken into Consideration the Order of
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Reference and having taken a View of the Session House and of the Ground
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adjoining they are of Opinion That the Pavement to the Front of the
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Building should be 12 feet wide and paved with Moor Stone Curb at the
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Extremity thereof and filled in with Purbeck Squares, the Footways to the
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several doors should be paved in the same manner. That a give and take
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Line should be laid out with the Commissrs. for paving St John
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Clerkenwell
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to be Enclosed with a Slight Iron Railing, and that a Parallel footway of
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different Widths as the case may require should be settled with the said
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Parish and formed at the Expence of the County in manner following vizt.
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The Extremitys thereof to be laid with the Curb or Moor
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Stone and the inside levelled and filled with hard Screen
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Ballast or Drift.
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That the Ground in the Front of the said Session house
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should be inclosed with Oak Posts and double Rails framed into the
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same with Rails to open for the Carriages with proper Footways through
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or across the same Ground and a Whipping Post fixed up in the Center
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thereof.
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That it is the Opinion of the Committee that the
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present Store Room and Stairs together with part of the Arcade next
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the Hall should be joined together for a Grand Jury Room
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That Stone Stairs should be formed to go up under the
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Clerks Stairs Case from a Vestibule below where the Stone Stairs now are
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That an Exclosure should be made over the open Space
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of the Sub Hall for a Lobby (connected by an Arch with the present Passage)
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between the present Jury Room and the New one (lighted from the Great Hall)
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and the present Room under the Court to be considered as a waiting room
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for the Witnesses and divided.
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One of the Indictment Offices in consequence of the above
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will require Alteration
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That a large Ventilator similar to that at the Old
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Bailey be fixed over the Arena of the Court
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