1764

By Adjournment Thursday 13th. December 1764

Poor Prisoners in Ho: of
Corr Tothill Fds. to have
1dy. worth of Bread Ydm.}

It is ordered that such Poor and Friendless Prisoners in the House
of Correction at Tothill Fields Wesminster in this County as shall be
unable to support and Maintain themselves in Prison shall have an
Allowance of one Penny worth of Bread dayly at the Charge of this
County in the Discretion of the Governor or keeper who shall keep a,
Regular Account to whom such Bread shall have been distributed
from Day to day as those in New Prison and the House of Correction
at Clerkenwell have until further order shall be made to the Contrary
And that the Accounts or Bills of the Bread to be so Supplied shall before
any order shall be made for payment thereof be referr'd to and Examined
and allowed by two of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for this County
to whom the Bakers Bills for Bread supplied to New Prison and the
House of Correction at Clerkenwell shall be referr'd from time to time

By Adjournmt same Day.

What Vagrants to have
3d. P. Diem}
Copier dd to
Hopkins & Stephens.

It is ordered that from this day forward the Prisoners apprehended
in this County as Rogues and Vagabonds and committed to the Houses of
Correction within this County shall have no other allowance than one penny
worth of Bread P diem as other poor Prisoners have and that the Keepers
of the said House of Correction do not make any Charges in their Accounts
for the future is being the Intent and meaning of the Sessions that the Allowa.
of three pence P diem be made only for the Vagrants Conveyed thro this County from,
other Counties or please and lvaged in one of the said Houses of Correction,
in their passage to their Settlement