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ring the last year as not to render necessary any case of punishment.
And lastly, with respect to the house of correction at Alnwick, it appears by the certi
ficate of the keeper of that prison, that the said house of correction is of such a construction
as to render the whole of the classification, and other rules and regulations required by
the Acts of Parliament passed in the fourth year of the reign of His present Majesty,
impracticable; but that the same is capable of being divided into two classes, one for
males and the other for females, with one day room and one airing yard attached to each
class: that the said prison contains eight sleeping cells, and a parlour, kitchen, pantry,
and a closet with a bed in it, on the ground floor, and two bed rooms up stairs, for the
keeper and his family: that there is a room within this prison which is solely used for
the Justices of the district to hold their petty sessions in: that the untried prisoners
within this prison are not kept to labour, unless it be at their own desire; but the tried
prisoners are employed in teazing oakum and horse-hair, making mats and mattrasses,
sewing pokes, and breaking sand: that if any of the tried prisoners are brought up to
any trade, they are allowed to work at such trade, provided the tools they respectively
use are not such as will facilitate their escape from prison: that the rules laid down in
the said Acts for the government of prisons have been complied with as far as they can:
that there are at present confined within the said house of correction nine prisoners, all
males; one under commitment for trial on a charge of larceny, one for uttering base
money, and seven for various misdemeanors and small offences: that the prisoners in the
said prison have during the last year conducted themselves in an orderly manner, to the
satisfaction of the Visiting Justices and keeper. Given under my hand this 20th day
of October 1826.