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January 1781

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of the Expence of executing the same which hath not yet been
executed. And it also appearing that one room of the above kind
may be made to serve the use both of New Prison at the House
of Correction at Clerkenwell Resolved that Mr Rogers do
forwith form a Plan of Room for the said purposes; and do point
out to this Committee the most convenient place at the Prisons on
which the same may be Erected and do also prepare an Exact
Estimate of the Expence of erecting and fitting up the same

It appearing to the Committee that in consequence
of a Report of the said Committee made and Confirmed at the
Session of the peace holden in and for this County in the month
of January 1775 the act of Parliament of the fourteenth year of the
reign of his present Majesty entitled An Act for preserving the
health of Prisoners in Goal and preventing the Goal Distemper"
was Ordered to be painted in large and legible Characters upon a
Board and hung up in some conspicuous parts of New Prison
and also at the house of Correction at Clerkenwell but which hath
not yet been done according to the said Order and the directions
of the said act Resolved that the said act of Parliament be
forthwith painted in large and legible Characters upon a
Board to be hung up in the said Prisons according to the
directions of the said act of Parliament and that Mr Rogers do
prepare a Board for that purpose

Took into Consideration the sate of the House of
Correction at Clerkenwell

Mr. Hall Governor of the said House of
Correction attending being examined stated that he had in Custody
23 Male Convicts and 32 Female Convicts almost all of whom
are in execution of Sentences passed upon them at the Session of
Goal delivery of Newgate That 62 have been committed to his
Custody since the last Session That he has also in Custody Two
Disorderly Apprentices Three Prisoners upon Orders and Twelve
Persons for debt. That his Prison will contain with tolerable
convenience about 150, That his Prison is very healthy and
that he has a Bathing Tub in the Prison but it is rarely even used

Resolved it is the Opinion of this Committee
that it would greatly tend to the preservation of good order and




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