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Waiter of different Sorts to be laid into each Passage for Cleanliness and
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"to prevent Fires. Engine placed in the same Four Sinks in each Passage
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"and Channels made to convey away the foul Water
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"Hews from the Fires below to warm some of the Apartments Iron
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"Gates next the Stairs, and other parts introduced for separation instead of
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"doors. The Pilbys to be property detached in each Story and to communicate
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"with the Open Air.
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"Enclosures
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"Where the Buildings or
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New Prison
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do not interfere High Walls to be
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"built to enclose the same with Iron Tormentors on the Tops thereof.
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"The space before the front Gateway will be convenient in case of any
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"Insurrection to guard the entrance of the Prison either by Soldiers or
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"otherwise
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"I Loroux Architect
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Great Russell Street
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Bloomy. 1784
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" Some of the Upper Cells when not occupied as Lodging Rooms
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"may be used as Working Rooms occasionally where seperate labour
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"is to be preferred.
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"By this plan it appears that one part may be executed on the
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"Quakers Ground immediately and the Prisoners removed thereto
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"and the other with equal Propriety when the Buildings are hereafter
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"taken down
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It appears by this Design that a Currency of Air is preserved
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"through the whole Plan and also a Connection with the external Air
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"Adjoining Land may be had of the Woodbridge Corporation
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"which will extend the Drying Ground Airing Ground Etc Etc"
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Upon due consideration It is the Opinion of Your Committee that
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the Plan marked A is the best of those produced and is a very proper
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Plan of a House of Correction for this County adapted to the Ground
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purchased of the Quakers
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Your Committee then requested Mr Leroux to lay before them at
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their next Meeting an Estimate of the expence of carrying the Plan marked A into
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execution in consequence of which Mr. Leroux laid before Your Committee
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a Parper of which the following is a Copy
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