December 1785

Report Confirmed

Resolved That the same be received and Confirmed and that the Clerk of the
peace do forthwith issue the several Orders upon the Treasurer of this County for
the payment of the several Sums therein mentioned amounting to the Sum of
£357..17s..11d.

By adjournment same day.

Resolved That the
Tap adjoinning the
New prison be
discontinued & Paid
into the Keepers
House

The Chairman Stated to the Court that he with several others of
His Majesty's Justices of the Peace had lately examined the New Prison at
Clerkenwell and the Keepers House and also the Tap adjoining thereto
That the Tap House adjoins the Wall of the Prison and is situate between
the Keepers House and the Prison so as totally to present the Keeper overlooking
the said Prison or being acquainted with what is transacting therein.
That there are two Holes in the Wall between the Prison and the Tap House
through which Liquor is continually conveyed for the Prisoners and other
Persons in the said Prison which is in Effect having a Tap House within
the Prison which they conceive to be highly improper and contrary to the
Laws now in being respecting the management of Prisons. That in order
to give the Keeper a more proper Communication with Prison and that he
may at all times be able to overlook the same and also in order that so great
a Nuisance to the Prison as the Tap which Communicates therewith may be
removed-It is the Unanimous Opinion of the Magistrates who viewed
and Examined the same that the said Tap should be discontinued and made
a part of the Keepers House and that a Window or other proper opening be
made therefrom to look into the Prison. Resolved that the said Tap
be discontinued in future and that the said Tap House be laid into the
Keepers House and that it be referred to the Committee appointed "to
"consider the allegations contained in a petition delivered by Henry Adams< no role > This name instance is in set 1591.
"Contractor for Conveying Vagrants in through and out of this County and all
"other Circumstances relative to the passing Vagrants as they may think
"Proper" to consider of the most proper mode of carrying the said
alteration into Execution and that they do Report their Opinion
thereon to the Court on the County day of the next Session

By adjournment same day

Baker continued

Resolved That William Watherston< no role > be permitted to serve the Prisoners
in New Prison at Clerkenwell and the House of Correction there with Bread until
the County day of the next Session.
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