1764.

By Adjournment on Thursday 23d. of February 1764

Report of the Commee
abt. Allowing Bread to
the Prisoners in New
Prison.}

At this Court the Comittee of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for this
County delivered in a Report of the Matters therein mentioned referred
to them which report is read as follows to wit.

To the Worshipfull his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
for the County of Middx in their General Session Assembled

The Report of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County
aforesaid who met as a Committee pursuant to an Order of Court
made at the last General Quarter Session of the Peace for the
said County Whereby it was referred to them to Examined and
Consider whether the Sessions have Power to Order an Allowance
of Bread to the Prisoners in New Prison in like manner as in the House
of Correction and how to regulate such Allowance (if there shall be
of Opinion there is Power to make any) and also how the Allowance
of Bread to the Prisoners in the said House of Correction may be
better regulated:

Your Committee met at Hicks Hall on Wednesday the fifteenth
Day of this Instant February and were Attended by the Keepers of the
said Prisons and took into Consideration the former Reports Orders &
Resolutions lay'd before them by the Deputy Clerk of the Peace and
Perused the several Statutes for relieving Poor Prisoners and
Examined both the said Keepers touching the General Circumstances
of their respective Prisoners And are of the following Opinion

First that by Virtue of the Statute made in the fourteenth Year
of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Intituled An Act how Vagabonds
shall be Punished and the Poor Relieved the Statute made in the
nineteenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the second Intituled
An Act for Relief of Poor Prisoners and setting them at Work and
another Statute made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of His late
Majesty King George the second for the more Easy Assessing
Collecting and levying County rates this Court hath Power
not only to Order a Suitable Relief out of the Publick Stock
of this County Sustenance to such Prisoners committed to
New Prison who are not able by themselves or their Friends
to procure daily and necessary Food but also to Provide a Stock
of Materials for setting them on Work for their Relief [..] and