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<p n="251"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">January 1775</note>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo306">New Prison</rs>
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with two fire places therein for the purpose of Sheltring<lb></lb>
the Prisoners in the day time from the Inclemencies of the Weather<lb></lb>
and Mr. Rogers having delivered a Sketch of a Shed for the said purpose<lb></lb>
and Estimated the Expence of Erecting the same at about Fifty Pounds<lb></lb>
the Committee are of Opinion that a Shed be forthwith built in the<lb></lb>
North West <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ113">Corner</rs>
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of the Mens Court Yard according to the said<lb></lb>
Plan and Estimate now in the hands of the Clerk</p>
<p n="252">A Motion was made and Seconded that this Court do approve of this part of the said<lb></lb>
Report & the same being carried in the Affirmative It is Order that so much of the said Report as last above<lb></lb>
mentioned be Confirmed and the squre is hereby Ratified & Confirmed accordingly, The said Committee further<lb></lb>
Report</p>
<p n="253">That having taken into Consideration the necessity of<lb></lb>
repairing the place in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo307">New Prison</rs>
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called the Dark Hole and the<lb></lb>
State of the North Wall of the Mens Court Yard and it appearing<lb></lb>
as well by the Report of Mr. Rogers as upon the View of the Committee<lb></lb>
that the Wall is in a very Ruinous dangerous and insecure State the<lb></lb>
Committee are of Opinion that the same ought to be forthwith taken down<lb></lb>
and rebuilt Correspondently to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo308">South Wall</rs>
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and that the Dark Hole<lb></lb>
(which is a place for the Confinement of Unruly and desperate prisoners)<lb></lb>
ought also to be repaired</p>
<p n="254"> A Motion & Second was made that this Court do approve of this part of the said<lb></lb>
Report and the same being carried in the affirmative It is ordered that so much of the said Report as last<lb></lb>
above mentioned to be Conformed and the same is hereby Ratified & Confirmed accordingly<lb></lb>
the said Committee<lb></lb>
further Report.</p>
<p n="255">That having taken into Consideration the Act of<lb></lb>
Parliament passed in the fourteenth Year of his present Majesty<lb></lb>
intitled "An Act for preserving the health of prisoners in Goal and<lb></lb>
"preventing the Goal Distemper" referred to this Committee by<lb></lb>
which Act of Parliament the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ114">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for this County in<lb></lb>
their Quarter Sessions assembled are authorized and required to order<lb></lb>
the Walls and Cailings of the several Cells and Wards both of the<lb></lb>
Debtors and Felons and also of any other Rooms used by the prisoners<lb></lb>
in their respective Goals and Prisons where felons are usually<lb></lb>
Confined to be Scraped and White Washed once in every Year at<lb></lb>
least to be regularly Washed and kept Clean and constantly supplied<lb></lb>
with fresh Air by means of hand Ventilators or otherwise It<lb></lb>
appeared to the Committee upon Examination that the Walls and<lb></lb>
Cielings of the several Cells and Wardes and other Roomes used by the<lb></lb>
Prisoners in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo309">New Prison</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo310">Clerkenwell</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo311">Bridewell</rs>
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are and have<lb></lb>
been carefully Scraped Washed and Cleaned and the prisons in a<lb></lb>
healthy State.</p>
<p n="256">And immmediately it was Moved and Seconded that this Court<lb></lb>
do approve of this part of the sd. Report and the same was Resolved accordingly<lb></lb>
And the sd. Commee<lb></lb>
further Report That</p>
<p n="257">It appearing that by the said Act the Justices as<lb></lb>
aforesaid are to order two Rooms one for the Men and the other for<lb></lb>
the Women to be set apart for the Sick Prisoners directing them to be</p>
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