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Inlcudes report : "The Report of Robert Thorp, Clerk of the Peace for the County of Northumberland, to His Mºjº Justices of the Peace for the said
County, assembled at the Michaelmas General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, holden at Alnwick in and for the said County, on Thursday the 16th day of October 1823.

"With regard to the House of Correction at Alnwick, it appears,
from the certificate of the Keeper thereof, that the building now and for many
years past used as a House of Correction in that town, is of such a construction
as to render the several classifications and other rules and regulations required by
the said Act impracticable, and that the same is only capable of being divided
into two distinct classes, one for males and the other for females, and such
classification consists as follows, viz. two day rooms and six sleeping cells. And
it further appears, from the said last-mentioned certificate, that there are only two
rooms appropriated to the use of the Keeper and family, viz. a kitchen and
a very small room or office. There is a large room up stairs, which is solely used
for the Justice meetings of that district. There is attached to this Prison two
airing yards, but the walls being so low, the Keeper is afraid of allowing the
prisoners to exercise there for fear of an escape. There are, at present, con
fined within the walls of this Prison, eight males and one female, charged with
misdemeanor, and one female charged with larceny".