Gaol Sessions minutes

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p.39. 23 June 1859. Death of Charles Chaplin. A subscription to be launched for a portrait in the grand jury room

p.47. 6 Oct. 1859. Clerk's fees commuted to a salary of £150 a year

William Hopkinson (clerk to the Bourne magistrates for over 52 years), offers his collection of law books as a memorial to Chaplin

p.57. 29 Dec. 1859. Rebecca Hussey's charity considered

p.83. 4 Oct. 1860. Extension to the Lincoln militia storehouse proposed

p. 123. 3 Oct. 1861. Proposal that convicts from quarter sessions awaiting transportation should be lodged in Lincoln gaol

p.193. 25 June 1863. Lt. Col. Fane, commandant of the South Lincoln Militia, abandons his request for an extension to the Grantham storehouse because of the lord lieutenant's disapproval

p.283. 28 Dec. 1865. New rules prepared under the Prisons Act (1865)

p.319. 27 Dec. 1866. The lord lieutenant fails to return the plans relating to proposed improvements at the Grantham storehouse

p.361. 2 Apr. 1868. Lindsey magistrates allowed to use the courts or grand jury room for financial or police meetings

p.369. 25 June 1868. The drop on the top of Cobb Hall ordered to be taken down and stored when not wanted for executions. [see the Capital Punishment Amendment Act, 1868.]

p.423. 7 Oct. 1869. Lt. Col. Moore writes about the want of accommodation at the Grantham storehouse

p.435. 30 Dec. 1869. Brownlow (lord lieutenant) supports Col. Moore's application for additions and improvements at Grantham. Mr. Kirk's plans (involving the purchase of an additional 1½ acres of land) approved

p.447. 31 Mar. Brownlow (chairman), Monson, Jarvis, Ellison, etc