Resolved it appears to this Committee that the Keeper of New Prison
and the Governour of the House of Correction do claim a right to and
take 6th as fees of such Persons as are committed to their Custody by
Warrant upon suspicion of felony for further examination even if such
Person or further examination is discharged by the committing Justices

Resolved it is the Opinion of this Committee that such Persons as
are committed on suspicion of Felony or other Crimes for further examination
and who or further examination are discharged by the committing
Justice are clearly within the Spirit of the Act of the 14th. of his present
Majesty for the relief of Prisoners charged with felony.

Resolved it is the Opinion of this Committee that the exacting fees
of Persons committed on suspicion of Felony or other crimes for further
examination and who upon further examination are discharged by the
committing Justice is both oppressive and unjust

Resolved it is the Opinion of this Committee that the Governour
of the House of Correction at Clerkenwell under the present terms of his
appointment ought not to take any fees whatsoever of such Persons as
shall be committed to his Custody on suspicion of felony or other Crimes
for further examination and who upon further examination shall be
discharged by the committing Justice without Bail or be by him
committed to another Prison for or in respect to such Commitment
and discharge.

It being the Opinion of this Committee, that innocence is to be
presumed in every stage of a criminal charge previous to the conviction
of Guilt and that Persons committed on suspicion of Felony or other
Crime for further examination may and ofter do upon such examination
prove their innocence, and as Commitment in this Case is merely for
safe Custody such Persons ought to be treated with the greatest tenderness
and lenity; neither burdened with Fetters nor confined among
convicted and accrocious Offenders, and as from the nature of a House
of Correction Imprisonment therein must be least injurious to such
an individual Resolved it be recommended to his Majestys
Justices of the Peace acting in and for the County of Middlesex to
commit such Persons labouring under suspicion of Felony, or other