September 1798.

By adjournment same Day.

It having been stated to the Court that great
Numbers of Persons had made application to take the
Oaths and to obtain the Certificate of the Clerk of the peace
under the Toleration Act who appeared improper
Persons and had taken the said Oaths Etc. for sinister
purposes having no place for religious Worship licenced
pursuant to the said Acts

Resolved That it be referred to William
Mainwaring< no role > Esquire , Samuel Glasse< no role > Doctor in Divinity
Nathaniel Conant< no role > , William Bleamire< no role > , Richard Smart< no role >
Rupert Clarke< no role > , Thomas Collins< no role > , Edward Read< no role > , William
Hyde< no role > , Daniel Williams< no role > , Jacob Leroux< no role > Esquires to Consi-
-der the several Clauses of the Toleration Act and also to
Consider what measures will be most proper to be adopted
in respect thereof and to Report their Opinion theron to
the Court.

{The Revd. Dr.. Glasse Chairman of the Prison Comm
laid before the Court a Report of the proceedings of the
Committee and the same was Read as follows.

Report of the Prison Committee from the 5th.
of June to the 3d. of September 1798. both inclusive.
Within the period the Committee has met four times
and the Meetings have been extremely well attended by the
Magistrates which is here greatfully acknowledged by
your Reporter.

At the first of these Meetings on June 5th. 1798. the
Surgeon Reported that there were three Prisoners in the
Sick Ward Vizt. Brady a Mutineer who has now
recovered the use of his Leg; Reafern another Mutineer
with a scrofulous Complaint and Ryan a notorious
Offender who is in a Decline; That 7. Women have
Venereal Complaints and that Matilda Nash< no role > is so
deeply diseased as to be in a hopeless state;