February 1786

It was also at this Meeting Resolved that two Infirmaries
should be constructed under the same Roof but divided into two distinct
parts one for Males and the other for Females, in Conformity to the aforesaid
Resolutions of the Court; This Building to be detached and placed at a proper
distance from the Prison; yet neither this nor any other Building to be erected
near the Boundary Wall

4th

The Reformation of the Prisoners so far as this may be effected
by every possible mode of Restraint and Separation and also by a Provision of
the means of attending on Divine Service challenged the Consideration of the
Committee as an Essential part of the Plan. To this End A Chapel is provided
agreeably to the Order of the Court But Whereas the Plan No. 1. proposes that
the Prisoners should at the time of Divine Worship be in a state of Confinement
by means of an ingenious Contrivance for that purpose the Committee did not think
it expedient to adopt this Measure; being desirous of affording to the Prisoners
every Encouragement consistent with the general safety of the Prison to attent to
those Duties the habitual Neglect whereof was probably the Principal Cause of
their being reduced to their present unhappy situation. It was however
Resolved that every Class should be separately disposed in the Chapel, and
that there should be an Iron Grating between them, with Benches only and no
Pews

Resolved that the Plan No. 1 adopted as the Basis of a Plan for the
intended House of Correction be sent to Jacob Leroux< no role > Esqr . together with a Copy
of the Resolutions of this Committee so far as they relate to the intended Building
and that he be desired to form a Plan agreeably to the foregoing Resolutions and
also agreeably to the Order of Reference empowering this Committee to call in
Assistance, and that Mr Leroux produce such Plan to the Committee on Saturday
February the 11th. to which day this Meeting was adjourned.

The fifth Meeting was held as by adjournment on Saturday
the 11th. February 1786

Present

William Bleamire< no role > Esqr . in the Chair

Sir Robert Taylor< no role > Knt.Nathaniel Conant< no role > Esqr.
Samuel Glasse< no role > D.D.Herbert Mayo D.D.
James Paine< no role > Esqr .Thomas Gordon< no role > Esqr.
Edward Montagu< no role > Esqr .John Staples< no role > Esqr.
Henry Holland< no role > Esqr .Thomas Brooksbank< no role > Esqr.
John Wright< no role > Esqr .Thomas Collins< no role > Esqr.
James Croft< no role > Esqr .Thomas Tryon Cotton Esqr.

Jacob Leroux< no role > Esqr.