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of the Expence of executing the same which hath not yet been
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executed. And it also appearing that one room of the above kind
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may be made to serve the use both of
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of Correction
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Resolved that Mr Rogers do
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forwith form a Plan of Room for the said purposes; and do point
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out to this Committee the most convenient place at the Prisons on
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which the same may be Erected and do also prepare an Exact
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Estimate of the Expence of erecting and fitting up the same
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It appearing to the Committee that in consequence
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of a Report of the said Committee made and Confirmed at the
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Session of the peace holden in and for this County in the month
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of January 1775 the act of Parliament of the fourteenth year of the
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reign of his present Majesty entitled An Act for preserving the
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health of Prisoners in Goal and preventing the Goal Distemper"
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was Ordered to be painted in large and legible Characters upon a
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Board and hung up in some conspicuous parts of
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and also at the
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but which hath
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not yet been done according to the said Order and the directions
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of the said act Resolved that the said act of Parliament be
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forthwith painted in large and legible Characters upon a
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Board to be hung up in the said Prisons according to the
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directions of the said act of Parliament and that Mr Rogers do
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prepare a Board for that purpose
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Took into Consideration the sate of the
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Mr. Hall Governor of the said
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attending being examined stated that he had in Custody
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23 Male Convicts and 32 Female Convicts almost all of whom
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are in execution of Sentences passed upon them at the Session of
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Goal delivery of
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That 62 have been committed to his
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Custody since the last Session That he has also in Custody Two
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Disorderly Apprentices Three Prisoners upon Orders and Twelve
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Persons for debt. That his Prison will contain with tolerable
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convenience about 150, That his Prison is very healthy and
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that he has a Bathing Tub in the Prison but it is rarely even used
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Resolved it is the Opinion of this Committee
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that it would greatly tend to the preservation of good order and
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