Resolved it appears to this Committe That the
Increase of Vagrants arises from the great number coming from the
City of London
and the Ease with which passes are there obtained.
Your Committee are therefore of Opinion That if ho persons
were passed as Vagrants but such as are the true object of the Vagrant
Laws and if they were passed agreeable to the directions of the Act of the
17th. Geo: 2nd. it would be a certain means of decreasing the Number
and relieving this County of the heavy charge now so justly complained of
And Your Committee further Report
That having taken into Consideration the reference to them
made in December Session last Vizt. to Consider the most proper mode to discontinue
the Tap House at New prison
and of laying the same into the Keepers House and
making a Window or other proper Opening therefrom to look into the Prison Your
Committee viewed the Prison and the Tap House and Caused Mr. Rogers (the
Surveyor) to attend them with the Plans of the said Prison and the Tap House and
Ground thereto adjoining and having Inspected the same Your Committee
are of Opinion that the most proper way of making the intended alteration
would be To Entarge the Tap House over the Passage
to the Present Keepers
House
in the One Pair of Stairs floor next to the Mens Yard and to make an
opening in the Boundary Wall of the Mens Yard for a Window with a strong
Iron Grating before the same
And the said Committee further Report
That having taken into Consideration the request of Mr.
Bond the present Tenant of the Tap House at New Prison for Permission to
retain in his possession (after he shall have quitted the Tap) the Use of the Cellars
belonging to the same It is their Opinion that in Consideration the said
Cellars immediately adjoin to the Walls of the said Prison it would be highly
inexpedient and detrimental to the Safely of the Prison to let any Person have
the possession of the said Cellars except the Keeper of the said Prison.
And the said Committee Lastly Report that they have not
been able to Complete their Enquires as to the other matters referred to
them and therefore Crave leave to sit again to determine the same
All which the Committee Submit Etc.
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