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