Middlesex Sessions:
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June 1785

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Middlesex


To His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex
in their General Quarter Session of the Peace holden for the said County
in the Month of June 1785 assembled

The further Report of the Committee appointed
to Pave the Ground belonging to this County round the
Session House and also to Consider whether a Whipping
Post can be conveniently placed near the Session House
or whether a Moviable one might not be used for the
purpose and whether a way cannot be made for the Grand
Jury to come into Court without Coming in under the
Stairs as they now do and whether better accomodation
cannot be provided for the Witnesses attending the Court
and the Graund Jury and also such other mattters as they
may think necessary to be done in and about the Session
House

The Said Committee Report

That having taken into Consideration the Order
of Reference and having taken a View of the Session House and of the Ground
adjouining they are of Opinion That the Pavement t the Front of the Building
should be 12 fiet wide and paved with Moor Stone Curb at the Extremity
thereof and filled in with Purbeck Squares,the Footways to the several Doom
should be paved in the same manner That a give and take Line should
be laid our with the Commissn for paving St John Clerkenwell to be
inclosed with a Slight Iron Railing and that a Parallel footway of
different widths as the case may require should be settled with the said
Parish and formed at the Expence of the County in manner following
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The Extremity's thereof to be laid with the Court
or Moor Stone and the inside lovelled and filled
with hard Screen Ballast or Drift




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