By Adjournment Thursday 7. May 1761 .

Comittee's report
Confirmed.}

At this Court the Report of the Committee who met since the last Session
for the purposes therein mentioned was deliver'd in and read as follows (to
wit) To the Worshipful Thomas Lane< no role > Esqr . and the Rest of
His Majesty's Justices of the peace for the County of
Middx in their General Session Assembled.

The Report of the Committee appointed by the
Court at the last Session.

Your Commee in pursuance of the Order of Court in that
behalf met at Hicks Hall and went to the Dwelling house
of the House of Correction at Clerkenwell on Friday the tenth
Day of April last and took a view of the Goods Utensils and
fixtures remaining in the said House of Correction And made a
new Inventory thereof which is hereunto Annexed.

The Inventory in Entd.
wth. the Keeps Bond.

Depy Cryer's Bill

Akerman

Passage to the
Grand Jury Room

Your Committee likewise Examined the Deputy Cryer's Bill
to them referred and finding it to be just and reasonable (on Expla-
-nation of the Articles) consented to the payment thereof Accor-
-dingly. Your Committee also proceeded to examine the Matter
of the Application of Mr. Richard Akerman< no role > This name instance is in set 4413. the Keeper of his
Majesty's Goal of Newgate (under the Sheriffs of Lord on and
Sheriff of Middlesex ). relating to prisoners brought from the
said Goal to the Sessions at Hicks Hall aforesaid to take their
Tryals for Larcenies and other Offences and Misdemeanors and
afterward committed to one of his Majesty's Goals or Prisons
of this County called New Prison and the House of Correction at
Clerkenwell in Execution upon their Convictions instead of
being remaned to the said Gaol of Newgate to receive
the punishment Adjudged them And after having Considered
of the said Matter to them referred your Committee are of
Opinion that the Court cannot do any thing therein
Complaints having been repeatedly made of great inconveni-
ences and hindrance of the Business at the Sessions from the
Situation of the Entrance to the Grand. Jury Room of this
Session House by reason of the Streightness of the Passage
from the Court to the said Entrance or Door way of the room
which Complaints have been Several times noticed by the Court
Your Committee therefore when they met at Hicks Hall on the
beforementioned Business also took into their Consideration
how the Entrance to the said Room might be rendred less incon-
venient and trouble some And in Order thereto gave direction
that the Door way Opening to the passage on the Westside of