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By Adjournment on Thursday the
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11th. Day of
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H. of Correction
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Whereas by Order of Session made the Tenth Day of July last being the
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County Day of the last Session of the Peace for this County) I was referred to this part
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to consider further of the Alterations and buildings at the Goals or Prisons called
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the
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and how and out of
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what Fund the Money for paying and discharging of the same can be raised and
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directed that the Grand Inquest of this County then Assembled in that Session
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should take a view of the said Goals or Prisons in Order to present his State and
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Condition of the same to that Court and of what was fill to be done in Pursuance
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of the Act of Parliament in that behalf As by the said Order of Court more fully
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Appears Now upon reading of the Presentment of the said Inquest laid before
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this Court by the
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of this County in Obedience to the said
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Order whereby it stands presented that the said Goals or Prisons respectively
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were out of Repair in Sundry respects and that several Reparations were
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necessary tobe forthwith made therein for the Support of the Buildings and
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Security of the Prisoners And the undermentioned Buildings and Alterations
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are highly necessary and proper tobe made in the said Prisons for the safe and
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well keeping of the Men Prisoners from the Women Prisoners therein and will be a
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great Improvement therto and a great Honour as well as Use and benefit to this
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County as follows vizt. Separations necessary in the
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, To take
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down the Brick Wall which now separates the Keepers Garden from the Yard
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where the Prisoners are promiscuously kept together and remove the same
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about four feet into the said Yard so that the Men and Women Prisoners may be
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kept separate from each other Also to separate the Work Room in the said
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Prison by a Wall or Partition and divide the Gallery over the said work Room
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so that the Men and Women Prisoners may be entirely kept a Sunder That
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the Garden now Occupied by the Keeper of
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be divided by a Wall Cross
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the Same and one part thereof appropriated to the Use of the Keeper of the House
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of Correction And that there be a Room and other necessary Conveniences made
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for the Women in the said Prison And also that the like Division may be made
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as in the House of Correction for keeping the Men & Women
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therein confined seperate By Building a Wall Cross the Yard & making such
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other Conveniences therein as shall be necessary And the said Inquest were
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of Opinion that the Repararions and Alterations before mentioned and such others
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