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<p n="1385">December 1785</p>
<p n="1386"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Report Confirmed </note>
Resolved That the same be received and Confirmed and that the Clerk of the<lb></lb>
peace do forthwith issue the several Orders upon the Treasurer of this County for<lb></lb>
the payment of the several Sums therein mentioned amounting to the Sum of<lb></lb>
£357..17s..11d.</p>
<p n="1387">By adjournment same day.</p>
<p n="1388"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Resolved That the<lb></lb>
Tap adjoinning the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo840">New prison</rs>
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be<lb></lb>
discontinued & Paid<lb></lb>
into the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55609_occ410">Keepers</rs>
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<lb></lb>
House</note>
The Chairman Stated to the Court that he with several others of<lb></lb>
His Majesty's Justices of the Peace had lately examined the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo841">New Prison</rs>
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at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo842">Clerkenwell</rs>
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and the Keepers House and also the Tap adjoining thereto<lb></lb>
That the Tap House adjoins the Wall of the Prison and is situate between<lb></lb>
the Keepers House and the Prison so as totally to present the Keeper overlooking<lb></lb>
the said Prison or being acquainted with what is transacting therein.<lb></lb>
That there are two Holes in the Wall between the Prison and the Tap House<lb></lb>
through which Liquor is continually conveyed for the Prisoners and other<lb></lb>
Persons in the said Prison which is in Effect having a Tap House within<lb></lb>
the Prison which they conceive to be highly improper and contrary to the<lb></lb>
Laws now in being respecting the management of Prisons. That in order<lb></lb>
to give the Keeper a more proper Communication with Prison and that he<lb></lb>
may at all times be able to overlook the same and also in order that so great<lb></lb>
a Nuisance to the Prison as the Tap which Communicates therewith may be<lb></lb>
removed-It is the Unanimous Opinion of the Magistrates who viewed <lb></lb>
and Examined the same that the said Tap should be discontinued and made<lb></lb>
a part of the Keepers House and that a Window or other proper opening be<lb></lb>
made therefrom to look into the Prison. Resolved that the said Tap<lb></lb>
be discontinued in future and that the said Tap House be laid into the<lb></lb>
Keepers House and that it be referred to the Committee appointed "to<lb></lb>
"consider the allegations contained in a petition delivered by <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55609_n1388-3">Henry Adams</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55609_n1388-3" type="surname" value="Adams"></interp>
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<lb></lb>
"<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55609_occ411">Contractor for Conveying Vagrants</rs>
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in through and out of this County and all<lb></lb>
"other Circumstances relative to the passing Vagrants as they may think<lb></lb>
"Proper" to consider of the most proper mode of carrying the said<lb></lb>
alteration into Execution and that they do Report their Opinion<lb></lb>
thereon to the Court on the County day of the next Session</p>
<p n="1389">By adjournment same day</p>
<p n="1390"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Baker continued</note>
Resolved That <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55609_n1390-1">William Watherston</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55609_n1390-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
be permitted to serve the Prisoners<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo843">New Prison</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55609_geo843" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo844">Clerkenwell</rs>
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and the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo845">House of Correction</rs>
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there with Bread until<lb></lb>
the County day of the next Session.<lb></lb>
Exd: DH:</p>
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