Quarter Sessions bundle

Includes report of Committee consider additional gaol, number of prisoners to be employed on tread wheels, etc., expense of machinery (Q/SBb 481/11); duplicated letter from Royal Scale Maker giving notice of time limit for purchasing standard weights and measures (Q/SBb 481/48); note that matter of Coggeshall Bridge be referred again to Mr Tindal (Q/SBb 481/57); rough note that Assistant Keeper of Barking House of Correction be appointed at £1 per week (Q/SBb 481/59); calendar of prisoners in County Gaol and Houses of Correction (Q/SBb 481/64-65); Colchester Gazette, 5 November 1825 (Q/SBb 481/67); Visitors' and Keeper's Reports for Gaol and Chelmsford House of Correction, 17 year old prisoner pardoned through ill-health; report of Chaplain, 1824/5, states that 200 prisoners learnt to read and 20 received instruction in how to write (Q/SBb 481/10); Visitors' and Keeper's Reports for Halstead House of Correction - walls of airing grounds heightened for greater security; request for turnkey to assist Keeper [appointment authorised at £1 per week] (Q/SBb 481/13,26); Report of Committee on Storage of West Essex Militia arms, accoutrements and clothing in Shire Hall, with detailed list of same and related notes (Q/SBb 481/17,20); County Surveyor's report that cost of heating courts and rooms of Shire Hall with warm air from a stove would not exceed £120 (Q/SBb 481/18); Visitors' Report for Thomas Tomkin's Lunatic Asylum, Witham (Q/SBb 481/19); report on Bridge: parishioners to contribute £40 to repairs for liability for horse bridge; proposal for new and enlarged wooden bridge and note of adoption, Upminster (Q/SBb 481/21,52); request for compensation for damage to grounds and willows, and use of premises by workmen during repair of bridge after flood of 1824 and relevant notes, Loughton (Q/SBb 481/22,53); letter from Sudbury mentioning 'vessel of slate' would be delivered at Springfield [no other details] (Q/SBb 481/27); County Surveyor's report on converting house (late dwelling of Keeper of House of Correction) into Office for County Records. (Q/SBb 481/32,49); papers concerning dispute over removal of Kezia Newman, singlewoman, from West Thurrock to Hendon, Middlesex [detailed expenses] (Q/SBb 481/33/1-5); order to Surveyor of Highways of Witham compensation for damage to lands caused by taking 300 loads of stones and Surveyor's report (Q/SBb 481/40/1-2); £47 compensation to be paid for land taken for additional gaol (Q/SBb 481/44)