The following Report of the Committee appointed to carry into
immediate and Effectual Execution the Repair of New Prison and
Clerkenwell Bridewell being laid before the Court and the same
being read as follows Vizt.

Middlesex

To His Majestys Justices of the peace for the
County of Middlesex in their General Session of the peace
held at Hicks Hall in Saint John Street (by adjournment) on
Thursday the 17th. day of September 1778 assembled

The Report of the Committee appointed
to carry into immediate and Effectual Execution
the Repair of New Prison and Clerkenwell
Bridewell

The said Committee Report

That in pursuance of the Order of reference to them
made Vizt. To prepare a Memorial to the Lords Commissioners of
His Majestys: Treasury agreeable to the Report of the prison Committee
made and Confirmed in October Session last" & Mr. Eyles having
laid before Your Committee the following Draft of a Memorial
To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissi
-oners of His Majestys Treasury

The Humble Memorial of
His Majestys Justices of the peace for the
County of Middlesex

Sheweth

That in the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of His
present Majesty King George the Third an act of Parliament
was made to authorize for a limited time the punishment by hard
Labour of Offenders who for certain crimes are or shall become
liable to be Transported to any of His Majestys Colonies and
Plantations" since which time no persons Convicted in any of the
Courts holding Criminal Jurisdiction within the County of
Middlesex have been sentenced to Transportation but have been
sent by virtue of the said Act to hard Labour on the River
Thames or in the Houses of Correction belonging to the said
County where they have been and now are Secured and
Supported the first under the directions and at the Expence
of Government the letter at the Charge of the County of Middlesex

By