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