County had been appointed to examine and settle the fees to be taken
by the Keeper of New Prison and the Governour of the House of Correction
and that in the Year 1763 the above mentioned Table of Fees are recorded
as the fees then and there long before taken by the said Keepers

And also having read the Act of Parliament made in the 14th. Year
of his present Majesty entitled "An Act for the relief of Prisoners charged
"with Felony or other Crimes who shall be acquitted or discharged by
"Proclamation respecting the Payment of Fees to Gaolers and giving a
"recompence for such Fees out of the County Rate Whereby it is Enacted
that all Prisoners charged with Felony or other Crimes or as Accessary
thereto before any Court holding criminal jurisdiction in England
against whom no Bill of Indictment shall be found by the Grand Jury
or who on his or her trial shall be acquitted or who shall be discharged by
Proclamation for want of Prosecution shall be immediately set at large in
Open Court without the payment of any Fee or Sum of Money to the Sheriff
Gaoler or Keeper of any Gaol or Prison from whence he or she shall be so
discharged and set at Liberty for or in respect of such discharge. That all
such Fees as had been usually paid to Sheriffs Gaolers or Keepers of Prisons
are abolished and that such fees if within 13¾d. due upon the dishcharge of
every Prisoner is to be paid out of the County Rate.

And also having read the following Orders of Court made
the 27th. day of February 1783 Vizt. Ordered that whoever shall be Elected to
the Office of Governour or Keeper of Clerkenwell Bridewell shall be subject to
such Orders Regulations and Alternations as this Court shall from time to
time shall think proper to make respecting the Fees and Perquisites which
shall or may be lawful for the Governour or Keeper hereafter to demand
or take as well as to all other matters and things whatever respecting
the said Bridewell the Governor or Keeper there of and the Prisoners
therein so that the Profits of the Office shall not be reduced to less that £300
P Annum and the same was unanimously Agreed to.

Your Committee came to the following Resolutions Vizt

Resolved it appears to this Committee that his Majestys Jusitces
of the Peace have exercised the power of lowering the fees taken by their
Gaolers