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<p n="250">May 1784</p>
<p n="251">To His Majestys Justices of the Peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo208">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in their General Quarter Session of the Peace holden for the<lb></lb>
said County in the Month of April 1784 assembled</p>
<p n="252">The Report of the Committee appointed To<lb></lb>
take into Consideration the Building a New<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo209">House of Correction</rs>
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on a Scale adapted to the<lb></lb>
Ground purchased of the Quakers together<lb></lb>
with the Scite of the present House of<lb></lb>
Correction.</p>
<p n="253">The said Committee Report</p>
<p n="254">That having taken into Consideration the Order of<lb></lb>
reference to them made at the last Session Vizt. "That the Consideration<lb></lb>
of building a <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo210">New House of Correction</rs>
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on a Scale adapted to the Ground<lb></lb>
purchased of the Quakers together with the scite of the present House<lb></lb>
of Correction be referred to a Committee and a plan or plans be prepared<lb></lb>
by them for that purpose to be laid before the Court on the County day of<lb></lb>
next Session"</p>
<p n="255">The Committee proceeded to appoint an Architect to<lb></lb>
prepare a plan or plans of a House of Correction for this County adapted<lb></lb>
to the Ground approved of by the Court for that purpose and thereupon<lb></lb>
appointed <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55609_n255-1">Jacob Leroux</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55609_occ92">Architect</rs>
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for the above purpose</p>
<p n="256">It appearing that the greatest number of Prisoners confirmed<lb></lb>
at any one time in the House of Correction hath been 233 Your Committee<lb></lb>
Resolved that Accomodation for not more than 350 together with<lb></lb>
proper conveniences for labour be provided in the New House of<lb></lb>
Correction to be built for this County and gave it as an instruction to the<lb></lb>
Architect to form a Plan with a Surrounding Wall to the prison & another<lb></lb>
Plan without such Wall.</p>
<p n="257">Mr Leroux pursuant to the Resolutions of the Committee<lb></lb>
produced Two Plans of a House of Correction for this County on a Scale adapted<lb></lb>
to the Ground purchased of the Quakers for that purpose Vizt. One with a<lb></lb>
Surrounding Wall the other without such Wall the same were Marke A.<lb></lb>
Aa Ab Ac Ad Ae. B and signed by the Clerk to the Committee<lb></lb>
and are here unto subjoined.</p>
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